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Lincoln's Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation

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Lincoln's Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation - Burton, Orville Vernon, Professor (Editor), and Eisenstadt, Peter (Editor), and Carwardine, Richard (Contributions by)
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"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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Lincoln's Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation 2022, LSU Press, Baton Rouge

ISBN-13: 9780807176764

Hardcover