Lincoln’s Thanksgiving: Nature’s God (Guelzo, Brookhiser, Bottum, and Dyer)
Allen Guelzo, Richard Brookhiser, Joseph Bottum, and Justin Dyer on the thought and action of Lincoln's Thanksgiving and his wrestling with God.
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Lincoln’s Thanksgiving, And Ours
Allen Guelzo on how Abraham Lincoln created Thanksgiving.
Passionate Sympathies
Richard Brookhiser on the rhetoric and meaning of Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation.
God and Mr. Lincoln
Joseph Bottum on the traces of Lincoln the national theologian in his Thanksgiving Proclamation.
On the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God
Justin Dyer on Lincoln’s natural theology and the relationship between Christianity and America.
