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Institute scholars have been highly critical of Abraham Lincoln's conduct of the American Civil War ( e. g. suspending habeas corpus ), asserting that his policies contributed to the growth of statism in the United States.

Senior faculty member Thomas DiLorenzo, in his critical biographies The Real Lincoln and Lincoln: Unmasked, argues that the sixteenth president substantially expanded the size and powers of the federal government at the expense of individual liberty.

Adjunct faculty member Donald Livingston shares a similar view, blaming Lincoln for the creation of " a French Revolutionary style unitary state " and " centralizing totalitarianism.

" Institute scholars have also taken a more general anti-war stance.

Many works espousing a general anti-war view such as John Denson's A Century of War and H. C. Engelbrecht's The Merchants of Death can be found on the institute ’ s website and purchased through its bookstore.