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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge, LA :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2022]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "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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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (444 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807178157 |