Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
James G. Randall

Born: June 4, 1881
Died: February 20, 1953 (aged 71)
Bio: James Garfield Randall was an American historian specializing on Abraham Lincoln and the era of the American Civil War. He taught at the University of Illinois, where David Herbert Donald was one of his students and continued his work.
Known for:
- Constitutional problems under Lincoln (1926)
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (1937)
- Lincoln, the President (1945)
- Lincoln and the South (1946)