Allen Guelzo on Abraham Lincoln

Lectures in History

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🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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University of Florida professor Allen Guelzo teaches a class on Abraham Lincoln's intellectual interests and how the 16th president was more than just a talented politician. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the Lectures and History podcast, Professor Alan Guelso of the University of Florida
0:09.9	explores the intellectual world of Abraham Lincoln and argues the 16th president was far more than a skilled politician.
0:17.2	Drawing on Lincoln's writings and speeches, Professor Guelso examines the literary, philosophical,
0:22.2	and religious influences that shaped his thinking, from the King James Bible to Enlightenment
0:26.6	ideas and how those influence informed his views on democracy, equality, and the union.
0:32.9	More after this.
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1:00.5	at public sector.govogle slash AI. Today, we're going to do this segment from our Lincoln
1:08.0	course, and it's going to dwell on a subject that is very, very central
1:14.4	to my own interest in Lincoln and that is going to be Lincoln as a man of ideas. So
1:19.4	there is there, do we have, do we have a clapper that we're going to use that way? No, no,
1:24.4	okay, all right. Well I guess in that case, in that case, I think we should be ready, and I'm trying to look my best, which is not really an improvement over the worst, but what can I say? All right.
1:37.3	All right, welcome everyone once again to AMS 3607, which is our course on American characters and specifically
1:48.7	about Abraham Lincoln. We're now two weeks into this semester and we've considered a
1:54.7	number of introductory matters about Lincoln and that is what are the kinds of images
1:59.9	that people have of Abraham Lincoln, what are the kinds of images that people have of Abraham Lincoln?
2:02.6	What are the kinds of books that have been written about him?
2:05.6	What's the basic timeline that gets us from February 12, 1809 to April 15, 1865?
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