Lincoln's unfinished work the new birth of freedom from generation to generation
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....
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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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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 "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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| Beschreibung: | vi, 435 Seiten Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9780807176764 978-0-8071-7676-4 |