News

Book Reviews:

Times Literary Supplement, Review by Adam I.P. Smith, May 27, 2011

Civil War Times, Review by Harold Holzer, October 2011

Civil War History, Review by K. Stephen Prince, December 2011

Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Review by Gerald Horne, January 2012

Civil War Monitor, Review by Earl J. Hess, March 7, 2012

News Coverage:

Lincoln’s 1863 plan to relocate blacks to Caribbean, The Civil War blog at the Washington Times, February 8, 2011

Book: Lincoln sought to deport freed slaves, Washington Times, February 9, 2011

Abraham Lincoln ‘tried to deport slaves’ to British Colonies, Daily Mail, February 11, 2011

Abraham Lincoln ‘wanted to deport slaves’ to new colonies, Daily Telegraph of London, February 11, 2011

USA: Lincoln voleva deportazione ex schiavi, dice libro GB SwissInfo (Italian Edition), February 12, 2011

American correspondence: Abraham Lincoln, The Courier-Mail (Australia), February 12, 2011

Lincoln wanted slaves in Brit colonies, The Times of India, February 12, 2011

Academics: Abe Lincoln tried to deport slaves to C’bean Jamaica Observer, February 13, 2011

Lincoln ‘favoured’ black colonization, The Daily Nation (Barbados), February 14, 2011

An Earthquake is Brewing in U.S. Economic History Forbes, February 22, 2011

New book sheds new light on Abraham Lincoln’s racial views Associated Press, March 4, 2011

Lincoln asked Britain to help set up colony for freed slaves The Independent, March 6, 2011

Should African-Americans fall out of love with Lincoln? TheGrio.com, March 7, 2011

Book raises questions about Lincoln’s colonization views Connect2Mason.com, March 7, 2011

Lincoln and Colonization: Navigating the Evidence by Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page, History News Network, March 21, 2011

Remembering the American Civil War: A Forum Encyclopedia Britannica Blog, April 11, 2011

The Civil War is still full of surprises, Britannica finds. PR Web, April 12, 2011

Civil War News, by Edward Bonekemper, June 2011

Public Policy Currents, George Mason University, June 30, 2011

A Topic Best Avoided, by Nicholas Guyatt, London Review of Books, December 1, 2011

Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Johnson, the New York Times Disunion blog, February 2, 2012

A New Look at the Economics Behind the Civil War, Forbes, February 14, 2012

Lincoln, Colonization, and the Sound of Silence, Sebastian Page, New York Times Disunion blog, December 4, 2012

A Separate Peace, New York Times Disunion blog, January 8, 2013

Multimedia:

Interview with KosmosOnline.org, the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University

Interview with WBAI Radio New York, March 9, 2011 (begins at 1 hour 10 minutes)

Interview with WTMA Radio Charleston, South Carolina, April 12, 2011

Interview with Dave Gahary, the Dave Gahary Show, May 14, 2011

C-Span coverage of Black History Month lecture, March 17, 2012