Quote of the day
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
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)