Lincoln's last speech : wartime reconstruction and the crisis of reunion /

What did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about "reconstruction?" Assassinated in 1865, the president did not have a chance to begin the work of reconciling the North and South, nor to oversee Reconstruction as an official postwar strategy. Yet his final speech, given to thousands g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Masur, Louis P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Views on reconstruction.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865
1861-1877
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1861-1865.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: "Gladness of heart"
  • "A large share of thought from the first"
  • "Proper, practical relation"
  • "A pernicious abstraction"
  • "A plan of re-construction"
  • "We, the loyal people, differ"
  • "Fraught with difficulty"
  • "A righteous and speedy peace"
  • "The egg is to the fowl"
  • Afterword: "the present 'situation'"

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