Quote of the day
If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.
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)






