The 16th President of the United States. He's reputed for his work in ending slavery, but is this true? Jiliana, Yadi, and Nat talk about Lincoln and some of the ways he isn't the President you think you know.

Listen to find out the beginning of Lincoln's life and some of the things he did in his early life, right up to his election.

** Opinions and commentary in all episodes  of YKTN are strictly our own and do not represent the opinions of others.

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Sources for Episodes 1&2:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/articles-and-essays/abraham-lincoln-and-emancipation/timeline/
https://newrepublic.com/article/114029/how-lincolns-efforts-compromise-helped-end-slavery
https://www.ipl.org/essay/A-Bad-President-Abraham-Lincoln-A-Bad-F3ZPA7HESCPR
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/250573-lois-lerner-lincoln-was-our-worst-president-not-our-best/amp/
https://constitutioncenter.org/amp/blog/lincoln-and-taneys-great-writ-showdown
https://www.brownulr.org/blogposts/through-the-eyes-of-lincoln-the-dred-scott-decision#:~:text=Lincoln%20condemned%20and%20decried%20the,to%20the%20death%20of%20slavery.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/articles-and-essays/abraham-lincoln-and-emancipation/#:~:text=on%20December%2018.-,The%20Emancipation%20Proclamation%20and%20Thirteenth%20Amendment%20brought%20about%20by%20the,long%20after%20the%20war%20ended.
https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/the-great-writ-north-and-south/?_r=1
https://listverse.com/2013/12/05/10-reasons-lincoln-was-secretly-a-terrible-president/
https://newseumed.org/tools/critical-debate/1864-lincoln-administration-seizes-opposition-newspapers
https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/abraham-lincoln-racist/