Lincoln's unfinished work the new birth of freedom from generation to generation
"In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation's sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a "new birth of freedom." Lincoln's Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States has attempted to realize-or subvert-that promise over the past century and...
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University Press
[2022]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Humor and statesmanship : the instructive case of Abraham Lincoln / Richard Carwardine
- The second founding : how the Civil War and reconstruction remade the Constitution / Eric Foner
- Lincoln, Du Bois's "General strike," and the making of the American working class / Lawrence T. McDonnell
- Abraham Lincoln's unfinished work and the South's long self-reconstruction / J. William Harris
- The problem of enforcement : the Republican struggle to protect voting rights in peacetime / Gregory P. Downs
- Breaking new ground : African American landowners and the pursuit of the American dream / Adrienne Petty and Mark Schultz
- Our textbooks and monuments have flattened Lincoln, just when we need him the most / James W. Loewen
- Looking at Lincoln from the effigy mound / Stephen Kantrowitz
- The unfinished work of Clemson University : full recognition for Black citizens in its history / Rhondda Robinson Thomas
- Evangelicals, race, and reform : from the age of Lincoln to the Second Reconstruction / Randall J. Stephens
- Jackie Robinson and the fight for effective Black citizenship; or, how integration reached second base / Peter Eisenstadt
- Lincoln and the two Reconstructions : the unfinished work of American equality / Jerald Podair
- From Ken Burns's The Civil War to history's ancient aliens : Lincoln's unfinished work on cable television / Joshua Casmir Catalano and Briana Pocratsky
- Voting rights and economics in the American South / Gavin Wright
- Falling in love with Lincoln and coming to America / Ayala Emmett