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378 | Joshua Zeitz: What President Lincoln's Faith Means for a Secularizing America

The Realignment

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The Auto-Dactical Nature of Lincoln's Education

Lincoln's self-taught education in the 19th century was so different from what it is today. He didn't read widely, and this is what he said to his law partner, he read deeply. But other than polish, it would be hard to say that there was anything he necessarily would have absorbed at a university.

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