Abraham Lincoln is considered our greatest president and one of the most controversial. People have debated various aspects of his personality and politics. Was he depressed? Why did he tell so many stories? Was he truly opposed to slavery? Did he free enslaved people? Did the Union prevail because of his leadership or despite him?
"Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War: What's Fact and What's Fiction" aims to uncover the man and not the myth. In 1922, historian W.E.B. DuBois proclaimed that Lincoln was “big enough to be inconsistent.”