President Lincoln and the Homestead Act

[RJNorton]

I agree, David. On the Abraham Lincoln Online website it says:

As author David Mearns said of Lincoln, "If he belongs to the ages it is because he belonged to his own age, his own fellows, his own environment ... if we would honor him, recognise and understand him we must return to his [age]."

IMO, the New York Times is not doing this.