What Would Lincoln Do?: Lincoln’s Shadow
Instructor: Nat Fenton
Location: Maine Sea Coast Mission, 127 West St., Bar Harbor
Course Meets: Tuesdays, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Course Size: 8-15 students
Starts: September 14, 2010
Ends: October 19, 2010
Description:
This course will examine our views of Lincoln and compare the issues he faced in his lifetime and in his Presidency with the issues we face today. Those issues will include slavery then and now; the meaning of the Presidential Oath then and now; the role of democracy (or “popular sovereignty”) then and now; the role of a wartime President then and now; and Lincoln’s search and discovery of America’s Holy Grail.