From Columbus to the founding fathers, the war on history took place.
College campuses are doing mop up operations.
A bust of Lincoln was removed from a Cornell University library exhibit after someone complained.
Cornell University biology professor Randy Wayne said someone complained and it was gone.
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The bust wasn't the only thing. The words of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address were removed as well. There is no display or wall in its place.
Maybe that says more about the current state of our institutions than a statue of Lincoln.
The Lincoln bust and plaque were on display for a short period of time to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. It doesn't seem like a coincidence that the exhibit has been there for a long time.
The bust and plaque were removed by Cornell.
Wayne explained what Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address mean to him in an interview with The Fix.
The Gettysburg Address is an incredible speech. We have a handwritten copy in Lincoln’s hand. It is known as the Bancroft Copy. It comes with an envelope signed by Lincoln (using his franking privilege), and a letter to [George] Bancroft, thanking him for requesting a copy of the address to put in a book to be sold for charity. I show these documents to my class, as well as the heavy iron manacles worn by slaves. Yes, we have a Lincoln legacy that has been inspirational to me and my students. To take his words (and bust) out of the hallway says something about our love of liberty.
Was it the ghost of Jefferson Davis that made the complaint? It isn't clear.
It is clear that a single complaint led to the removal of a part of our history. For the course, a token of gratitude.
Our country's most powerful institutions are usually leading the revolution when they don't go out of their way to appease the most absurd demands of the left-wing extremists.
They have canceled the Great Emancipator before because of Lincoln's role in the abolition of slavery.
It's not enough to achieve an accomplishment. One transgression against the current standards of social justice can be canceled.
If you don't serve the cause, you are quickly dispatched to the past. Maybe that is the garbage of an Ivy League school.
The chairman of the naming committee said that the 16th president did not show through policy or rhetoric that black lives were important to him.
Lincoln was killed while leading the cause of ending slavery in this country. That isn't good enough for the bureaucrats who will be judging him.
A lot of those who go through our colleges don't seem to have a lot of knowledge about Lincoln's life. The leader of the movement to remove the Lincoln statue at the University of Wisconsin said that Lincoln owned slaves.
Lincoln wasn't the owner of slaves. There isn't much a big deal. The narrative about how our past and greatest heroes amount to little more than an edifice of structural racism shouldn't be affected by a few details.
Lincoln was dumped by a number of Ivy League schools.
A few years ago, the expertsweighed in on the war on history and said it was ridiculous that removal of Confederate statues would lead to a general attack on historic figures such as Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.
Lincoln, Washington, and many other parts of our past have also come down.
The values of our elite institutions are represented by a vacant space.
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