Abraham Joshua Heschel

Lincoln achieved his purpose when giving the Second Inaugural Address and surprised his audience with it. He used many rhetorical strategies when giving this address. He discusses the difference between the North and South, and how they also compare (Examples: difference is how the North did not have slaves and the South did. Then compared is how both sides saw God the same way). Lincoln talks about the effects of the Civil War and how God is the answer for ending the war and ending slavery. He…

Through further research, it is becoming clearer that the Emancipation Proclamation was much more than a simple morally virtuous literature. This document, issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1962. This document declared that from January 1, 1963 and onwards, all slaves in the Confederate states are thereby free. Though the Union had no political rights to make such a proclamation, this declaration was important not only for putting the Union on the morale “high-ground,” but also…

The book I chose to read was For Cause & Comrades by James M. McPherson. McPherson is an American Civil War Historian, and is also the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He has written several books on the American Civil War and has received awards such as the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, and the Lincoln Prize in 1998 for his book For Cause & Comrades. McPherson was also the 2003 president of the American Historical…

States for couple reasons. First of all, civil rights had to be assured for the freed slaves, against Southern parts; and secondly, the Union needed to become reunited as soon as possible, also with as little punishment to the Southern as possible. Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson have made great and quick progress to reunite the Union as rapidly as possible, but unnoticed black rights in the process. Radical Republicans in Congress has took over the Reconstruction the Blacks had more civil…

The American Civil War marked a period in United States history, in which Americans endured exceedingly onerous ethical and political issues. During the presidential election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln declared his opposition to the expansion of slavery. Lincoln’s policies threatened southern ideology; slavery was the catalyst for economic prosperity in the south. Even before Lincoln’s official inauguration into presidency on March 4, 1861, Southern states began to succeed from the…

Juneteenth, when the last of slaves were finally free, makes 150 years of being around. Today, Barack Obama, the first black president to live in the White House could make one of his biggest movements in his presidency: apologize for the land of the free. Obama being the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother who passed away years after slavery ended, has some ancestral baggage on slavery. Therefore, many believe no other man could make a more inspiring apology about America’s past sins.…

political sphere Lincoln had brought religion into the liberal consensus. Diggins viewed Lincoln as the one who tried to rewrite the meaning of the Declaration of Independence by turning Jefferson’s beliefs into his own. His book On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History evaluates Lincoln as a moral man and not a religious man, one that changed the identity of the United States. Along with Lincoln’s religiosity, the president’s foreign policy was another…

that were apart of the Confederacy. Due to the Radical Republicans within Congress during this time, they did not like this one bit. Congress would go on to overrule President Johnson and implement a very harsh variety of Reconstruction. President Abraham Lincoln wanted to bring all states back together to have a nation that all together. He wanted to bring bake the states that had seceded, and bring them back to the Union. Lincoln thought this would be a good way to heal the wounds from the…

Abraham Lincoln’s A House Divided Author Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States of America who served between the years of 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln is recognized now as the man who ended slavery but he was more than just that. He was always into politics and had an up and down run in varying elections until 1858 when the Illinois Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Senate and accepted with his career launching speech A House Divided. He did not win…

Abraham Maslow is the founder of humanistic psychology. He endured a bad childhood that influenced his approach in the behavioral sciences career path. Both of his parents did not seem to put any positive reinforcement towards his development as a child. Maslow said that his father would often be found with “whiskey and women and fighting” before being seen with the family. As a result, growing up Maslow emotionally felt anger and hostility towards his dad before rekindling the relationship…