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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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