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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954- (Editor ), Burton, Orville Vernon (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Race relations.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (444 pages).
ISBN:9780807178157

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