Lincoln and the American Founding: A Conversation with Lucas Morel

Summary

What did Abraham Lincoln read? What makes him "America's greatest defender"? What should we do with Confederate memorials? Lucas Morel, the John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University, joins the show to discuss all this and more!

You can buy Morel's book Lincoln and the American Founding here.

You can read Morel's editorial "Why Lee should remain a namesake of my university" here.

Madison’s Notes is the podcast of Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

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Annika Nordquist

Annika Nordquist is the Communications Coordinator of Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and host of the Program’s podcast, Madison’s Notes. She graduated from Stanford University in 2021, where she studied Classics and Linguistics. She was also Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Review and a member of the varsity fencing team. Previously, she was a Research Assistant in Education Policy at the American Enterprise Institute.

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