Books
Expediency and Morality in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
– The Anchor Review 2 (1957).Slavery — A Battle Revisited
– New Leader 41:30 (August 18-25, 1958). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Created Equal: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 by Paul Angle.
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
–Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 50th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
This edition includes a new introduction by the author to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1959 publication.
Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political… More
In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859
– Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959).Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859: The Great Debate Continued
– In Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds., In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Source of American Caesarism: Review of Harry V. Jaffa
– Willmoore Kendall, National Review, November 7, 1959.Excerpt: The idea of natural right is not so easily reducible to the equality clause, and there are better ways of demonstrating the possibility of self-government than imposing one’s… More
Lincoln and Douglas
– Allen Nevins, New Leader 43:20 (May 1960).Review of Crisis of the House Divided.
Reply to Allan Nevins’ review of Crisis of the House Divided
– New Leader (June 20, 1960).Review: The Letters of Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen
– The Journal of Southern History 28:2 (May 1962), pp. 251-253. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty: Reflections on the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address
– In Melvin Laird, ed., The Conservative Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1964). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
– New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.Summary from the Publisher: This is the first of four books by Harry V. Jaffa reprinted by the Claremont Institute in honor of his 80th birthday. This book was originally published by… More
Reconstruction, Old and New
– National Review, April 20, 1965.Review of The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 by Kenneth M. Stampp
Portrait of a Patriot
– National Review, May 25, 1973. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen.
Debate: “Time on the Cross”
– National Review, March 28, 1975.Review of Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.
Fellows’ Choice
– Hadley Arkes, The Wilson Quarterly 1:3 (Spring 1977), pp. 127-128.Review of Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).“Who Killed Cock Robin?” A Retrospective on the Bork Nomination and a Reply to “Jaffa Divides the House”
– Seattle University Law Review 13:3 (1990). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In an utterance that may have changed the history of the United States, and of the world, Lincoln argued that the grounds upon which one opposed the extension of slavery into the… More
Inventing the Gettysburg Address
– Intercollegiate Review 28:1 (Fall 1992). Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Excerpt: Thirty years ago, Garry Wills was a rising star of the Right, a celebrity in the constellation of William F. Buckley, Jr. and National Review. His essay on “The Convenient… More
Defending the Cause of Human Freedom
– The Claremont Institute, April 15, 1994.Excerpt: The Spring 1994 Intercollegiate Review featured a section entitled “Not In Memoriam, But in Affirmation: M. E. Bradford.” I welcome this, or any tribute, to my departed… More
The Speech That Changed the World
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The Speech That Changed the World." Claremont Review of Books, February 6, 2009.Excerpt: Of all Lincoln’s speeches, whether greater or lesser, the only one that can be said truly to have changed the course of history, was delivered to the Republican State… More
The Virtue of Practical Wisdom
– Thomas, Clarence. "The Virtue of Practical Wisdom." Claremont Review of Books, February 9, 1999. Excerpt: We gather here tonight in memory of a great man, a great president whose noble words and selfless deeds enabled this great nation to fulfill its promises of equality and liberty… More
Wages of Sin
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004.Excerpt: Among the young scholars in the 1950s who challenged the prevailing historical canon on slavery, no less than Fogel, was one he never mentions. Before the publication of Crisis of… More
Dred Scott Revisited
– Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 31:1 (Winter 2008).Lincoln in Peoria
– Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2009.Excerpt: A friendly critic has recently characterized my life’s work as dedicated to the moral vision of Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria. Of course, as a faithful student of Leo… More
The Declaration in a House Divided
– Video, Jack Miller Center, April 21, 2015.Summary: Interviews with Diana Schaub, James W. Ceaser, and others on the Declaration of Independence.
The Emancipation Proclamation
– In Robert A. Godwin, ed., 100 Years of Emancipation (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Excerpt: Both in the pre-inaugural period, and in the opening stages of the conflict, the danger of disunion, now the paramount danger, did not come from the forces of slavery alone. It… More
Essays
Expediency and Morality in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
– The Anchor Review 2 (1957).Slavery — A Battle Revisited
– New Leader 41:30 (August 18-25, 1958). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Created Equal: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 by Paul Angle.
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
–Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 50th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
This edition includes a new introduction by the author to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1959 publication.
Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political… More
In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859
– Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959).Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859: The Great Debate Continued
– In Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds., In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Source of American Caesarism: Review of Harry V. Jaffa
– Willmoore Kendall, National Review, November 7, 1959.Excerpt: The idea of natural right is not so easily reducible to the equality clause, and there are better ways of demonstrating the possibility of self-government than imposing one’s… More
Lincoln and Douglas
– Allen Nevins, New Leader 43:20 (May 1960).Review of Crisis of the House Divided.
Reply to Allan Nevins’ review of Crisis of the House Divided
– New Leader (June 20, 1960).Review: The Letters of Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen
– The Journal of Southern History 28:2 (May 1962), pp. 251-253. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty: Reflections on the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address
– In Melvin Laird, ed., The Conservative Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1964). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
– New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.Summary from the Publisher: This is the first of four books by Harry V. Jaffa reprinted by the Claremont Institute in honor of his 80th birthday. This book was originally published by… More
Reconstruction, Old and New
– National Review, April 20, 1965.Review of The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 by Kenneth M. Stampp
Portrait of a Patriot
– National Review, May 25, 1973. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen.
Debate: “Time on the Cross”
– National Review, March 28, 1975.Review of Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.
Fellows’ Choice
– Hadley Arkes, The Wilson Quarterly 1:3 (Spring 1977), pp. 127-128.Review of Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).“Who Killed Cock Robin?” A Retrospective on the Bork Nomination and a Reply to “Jaffa Divides the House”
– Seattle University Law Review 13:3 (1990). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In an utterance that may have changed the history of the United States, and of the world, Lincoln argued that the grounds upon which one opposed the extension of slavery into the… More
Inventing the Gettysburg Address
– Intercollegiate Review 28:1 (Fall 1992). Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Excerpt: Thirty years ago, Garry Wills was a rising star of the Right, a celebrity in the constellation of William F. Buckley, Jr. and National Review. His essay on “The Convenient… More
Defending the Cause of Human Freedom
– The Claremont Institute, April 15, 1994.Excerpt: The Spring 1994 Intercollegiate Review featured a section entitled “Not In Memoriam, But in Affirmation: M. E. Bradford.” I welcome this, or any tribute, to my departed… More
The Speech That Changed the World
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The Speech That Changed the World." Claremont Review of Books, February 6, 2009.Excerpt: Of all Lincoln’s speeches, whether greater or lesser, the only one that can be said truly to have changed the course of history, was delivered to the Republican State… More
The Virtue of Practical Wisdom
– Thomas, Clarence. "The Virtue of Practical Wisdom." Claremont Review of Books, February 9, 1999. Excerpt: We gather here tonight in memory of a great man, a great president whose noble words and selfless deeds enabled this great nation to fulfill its promises of equality and liberty… More
Wages of Sin
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004.Excerpt: Among the young scholars in the 1950s who challenged the prevailing historical canon on slavery, no less than Fogel, was one he never mentions. Before the publication of Crisis of… More
Dred Scott Revisited
– Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 31:1 (Winter 2008).Lincoln in Peoria
– Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2009.Excerpt: A friendly critic has recently characterized my life’s work as dedicated to the moral vision of Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria. Of course, as a faithful student of Leo… More
The Declaration in a House Divided
– Video, Jack Miller Center, April 21, 2015.Summary: Interviews with Diana Schaub, James W. Ceaser, and others on the Declaration of Independence.
The Emancipation Proclamation
– In Robert A. Godwin, ed., 100 Years of Emancipation (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Excerpt: Both in the pre-inaugural period, and in the opening stages of the conflict, the danger of disunion, now the paramount danger, did not come from the forces of slavery alone. It… More
Commentary
Expediency and Morality in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
– The Anchor Review 2 (1957).Slavery — A Battle Revisited
– New Leader 41:30 (August 18-25, 1958). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Created Equal: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 by Paul Angle.
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
–Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 50th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
This edition includes a new introduction by the author to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1959 publication.
Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political… More
In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859
– Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959).Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859: The Great Debate Continued
– In Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds., In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Source of American Caesarism: Review of Harry V. Jaffa
– Willmoore Kendall, National Review, November 7, 1959.Excerpt: The idea of natural right is not so easily reducible to the equality clause, and there are better ways of demonstrating the possibility of self-government than imposing one’s… More
Lincoln and Douglas
– Allen Nevins, New Leader 43:20 (May 1960).Review of Crisis of the House Divided.
Reply to Allan Nevins’ review of Crisis of the House Divided
– New Leader (June 20, 1960).Review: The Letters of Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen
– The Journal of Southern History 28:2 (May 1962), pp. 251-253. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty: Reflections on the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address
– In Melvin Laird, ed., The Conservative Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1964). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
– New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.Summary from the Publisher: This is the first of four books by Harry V. Jaffa reprinted by the Claremont Institute in honor of his 80th birthday. This book was originally published by… More
Reconstruction, Old and New
– National Review, April 20, 1965.Review of The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 by Kenneth M. Stampp
Portrait of a Patriot
– National Review, May 25, 1973. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen.
Debate: “Time on the Cross”
– National Review, March 28, 1975.Review of Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.
Fellows’ Choice
– Hadley Arkes, The Wilson Quarterly 1:3 (Spring 1977), pp. 127-128.Review of Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).“Who Killed Cock Robin?” A Retrospective on the Bork Nomination and a Reply to “Jaffa Divides the House”
– Seattle University Law Review 13:3 (1990). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In an utterance that may have changed the history of the United States, and of the world, Lincoln argued that the grounds upon which one opposed the extension of slavery into the… More
Inventing the Gettysburg Address
– Intercollegiate Review 28:1 (Fall 1992). Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Excerpt: Thirty years ago, Garry Wills was a rising star of the Right, a celebrity in the constellation of William F. Buckley, Jr. and National Review. His essay on “The Convenient… More
Defending the Cause of Human Freedom
– The Claremont Institute, April 15, 1994.Excerpt: The Spring 1994 Intercollegiate Review featured a section entitled “Not In Memoriam, But in Affirmation: M. E. Bradford.” I welcome this, or any tribute, to my departed… More
The Speech That Changed the World
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The Speech That Changed the World." Claremont Review of Books, February 6, 2009.Excerpt: Of all Lincoln’s speeches, whether greater or lesser, the only one that can be said truly to have changed the course of history, was delivered to the Republican State… More
The Virtue of Practical Wisdom
– Thomas, Clarence. "The Virtue of Practical Wisdom." Claremont Review of Books, February 9, 1999. Excerpt: We gather here tonight in memory of a great man, a great president whose noble words and selfless deeds enabled this great nation to fulfill its promises of equality and liberty… More
Wages of Sin
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004.Excerpt: Among the young scholars in the 1950s who challenged the prevailing historical canon on slavery, no less than Fogel, was one he never mentions. Before the publication of Crisis of… More
Dred Scott Revisited
– Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 31:1 (Winter 2008).Lincoln in Peoria
– Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2009.Excerpt: A friendly critic has recently characterized my life’s work as dedicated to the moral vision of Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria. Of course, as a faithful student of Leo… More
The Declaration in a House Divided
– Video, Jack Miller Center, April 21, 2015.Summary: Interviews with Diana Schaub, James W. Ceaser, and others on the Declaration of Independence.
The Emancipation Proclamation
– In Robert A. Godwin, ed., 100 Years of Emancipation (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Excerpt: Both in the pre-inaugural period, and in the opening stages of the conflict, the danger of disunion, now the paramount danger, did not come from the forces of slavery alone. It… More
Multimedia
Expediency and Morality in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
– The Anchor Review 2 (1957).Slavery — A Battle Revisited
– New Leader 41:30 (August 18-25, 1958). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Created Equal: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 by Paul Angle.
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
–Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 50th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
This edition includes a new introduction by the author to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1959 publication.
Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political… More
In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859
– Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959).Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859: The Great Debate Continued
– In Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds., In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Source of American Caesarism: Review of Harry V. Jaffa
– Willmoore Kendall, National Review, November 7, 1959.Excerpt: The idea of natural right is not so easily reducible to the equality clause, and there are better ways of demonstrating the possibility of self-government than imposing one’s… More
Lincoln and Douglas
– Allen Nevins, New Leader 43:20 (May 1960).Review of Crisis of the House Divided.
Reply to Allan Nevins’ review of Crisis of the House Divided
– New Leader (June 20, 1960).Review: The Letters of Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen
– The Journal of Southern History 28:2 (May 1962), pp. 251-253. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty: Reflections on the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address
– In Melvin Laird, ed., The Conservative Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1964). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
– New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.Summary from the Publisher: This is the first of four books by Harry V. Jaffa reprinted by the Claremont Institute in honor of his 80th birthday. This book was originally published by… More
Reconstruction, Old and New
– National Review, April 20, 1965.Review of The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 by Kenneth M. Stampp
Portrait of a Patriot
– National Review, May 25, 1973. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen.
Debate: “Time on the Cross”
– National Review, March 28, 1975.Review of Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.
Fellows’ Choice
– Hadley Arkes, The Wilson Quarterly 1:3 (Spring 1977), pp. 127-128.Review of Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).“Who Killed Cock Robin?” A Retrospective on the Bork Nomination and a Reply to “Jaffa Divides the House”
– Seattle University Law Review 13:3 (1990). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In an utterance that may have changed the history of the United States, and of the world, Lincoln argued that the grounds upon which one opposed the extension of slavery into the… More
Inventing the Gettysburg Address
– Intercollegiate Review 28:1 (Fall 1992). Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Excerpt: Thirty years ago, Garry Wills was a rising star of the Right, a celebrity in the constellation of William F. Buckley, Jr. and National Review. His essay on “The Convenient… More
Defending the Cause of Human Freedom
– The Claremont Institute, April 15, 1994.Excerpt: The Spring 1994 Intercollegiate Review featured a section entitled “Not In Memoriam, But in Affirmation: M. E. Bradford.” I welcome this, or any tribute, to my departed… More
The Speech That Changed the World
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The Speech That Changed the World." Claremont Review of Books, February 6, 2009.Excerpt: Of all Lincoln’s speeches, whether greater or lesser, the only one that can be said truly to have changed the course of history, was delivered to the Republican State… More
The Virtue of Practical Wisdom
– Thomas, Clarence. "The Virtue of Practical Wisdom." Claremont Review of Books, February 9, 1999. Excerpt: We gather here tonight in memory of a great man, a great president whose noble words and selfless deeds enabled this great nation to fulfill its promises of equality and liberty… More
Wages of Sin
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004.Excerpt: Among the young scholars in the 1950s who challenged the prevailing historical canon on slavery, no less than Fogel, was one he never mentions. Before the publication of Crisis of… More
Dred Scott Revisited
– Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 31:1 (Winter 2008).Lincoln in Peoria
– Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2009.Excerpt: A friendly critic has recently characterized my life’s work as dedicated to the moral vision of Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria. Of course, as a faithful student of Leo… More
The Declaration in a House Divided
– Video, Jack Miller Center, April 21, 2015.Summary: Interviews with Diana Schaub, James W. Ceaser, and others on the Declaration of Independence.
The Emancipation Proclamation
– In Robert A. Godwin, ed., 100 Years of Emancipation (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Excerpt: Both in the pre-inaugural period, and in the opening stages of the conflict, the danger of disunion, now the paramount danger, did not come from the forces of slavery alone. It… More
Teaching
Expediency and Morality in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
– The Anchor Review 2 (1957).Slavery — A Battle Revisited
– New Leader 41:30 (August 18-25, 1958). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Created Equal: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 by Paul Angle.
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
–Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 50th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
This edition includes a new introduction by the author to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1959 publication.
Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political… More
In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859
– Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959).Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859: The Great Debate Continued
– In Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds., In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Source of American Caesarism: Review of Harry V. Jaffa
– Willmoore Kendall, National Review, November 7, 1959.Excerpt: The idea of natural right is not so easily reducible to the equality clause, and there are better ways of demonstrating the possibility of self-government than imposing one’s… More
Lincoln and Douglas
– Allen Nevins, New Leader 43:20 (May 1960).Review of Crisis of the House Divided.
Reply to Allan Nevins’ review of Crisis of the House Divided
– New Leader (June 20, 1960).Review: The Letters of Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen
– The Journal of Southern History 28:2 (May 1962), pp. 251-253. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty: Reflections on the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address
– In Melvin Laird, ed., The Conservative Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1964). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
– New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.Summary from the Publisher: This is the first of four books by Harry V. Jaffa reprinted by the Claremont Institute in honor of his 80th birthday. This book was originally published by… More
Reconstruction, Old and New
– National Review, April 20, 1965.Review of The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 by Kenneth M. Stampp
Portrait of a Patriot
– National Review, May 25, 1973. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen.
Debate: “Time on the Cross”
– National Review, March 28, 1975.Review of Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.
Fellows’ Choice
– Hadley Arkes, The Wilson Quarterly 1:3 (Spring 1977), pp. 127-128.Review of Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).“Who Killed Cock Robin?” A Retrospective on the Bork Nomination and a Reply to “Jaffa Divides the House”
– Seattle University Law Review 13:3 (1990). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In an utterance that may have changed the history of the United States, and of the world, Lincoln argued that the grounds upon which one opposed the extension of slavery into the… More
Inventing the Gettysburg Address
– Intercollegiate Review 28:1 (Fall 1992). Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Excerpt: Thirty years ago, Garry Wills was a rising star of the Right, a celebrity in the constellation of William F. Buckley, Jr. and National Review. His essay on “The Convenient… More
Defending the Cause of Human Freedom
– The Claremont Institute, April 15, 1994.Excerpt: The Spring 1994 Intercollegiate Review featured a section entitled “Not In Memoriam, But in Affirmation: M. E. Bradford.” I welcome this, or any tribute, to my departed… More
The Speech That Changed the World
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The Speech That Changed the World." Claremont Review of Books, February 6, 2009.Excerpt: Of all Lincoln’s speeches, whether greater or lesser, the only one that can be said truly to have changed the course of history, was delivered to the Republican State… More
The Virtue of Practical Wisdom
– Thomas, Clarence. "The Virtue of Practical Wisdom." Claremont Review of Books, February 9, 1999. Excerpt: We gather here tonight in memory of a great man, a great president whose noble words and selfless deeds enabled this great nation to fulfill its promises of equality and liberty… More
Wages of Sin
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004.Excerpt: Among the young scholars in the 1950s who challenged the prevailing historical canon on slavery, no less than Fogel, was one he never mentions. Before the publication of Crisis of… More
Dred Scott Revisited
– Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 31:1 (Winter 2008).Lincoln in Peoria
– Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2009.Excerpt: A friendly critic has recently characterized my life’s work as dedicated to the moral vision of Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria. Of course, as a faithful student of Leo… More
The Declaration in a House Divided
– Video, Jack Miller Center, April 21, 2015.Summary: Interviews with Diana Schaub, James W. Ceaser, and others on the Declaration of Independence.
The Emancipation Proclamation
– In Robert A. Godwin, ed., 100 Years of Emancipation (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Excerpt: Both in the pre-inaugural period, and in the opening stages of the conflict, the danger of disunion, now the paramount danger, did not come from the forces of slavery alone. It… More