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...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Conflicting worlds.
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| Summary: | "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 a half. The volume is not solely about Lincoln, or the immediate unfinished work of Reconstruction, or the broader unfinished work of America coming to terms with its tangled history of race; it investigates all three topics"-- |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807176764 0807176761 |