Lincoln's Unfinished Work
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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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"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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Autorenporträt
Orville Vernon Burton is the Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at Clemson University, University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Emeritus at the University of Illinois, and author of several books about Civil War-era America, including The Age of Lincoln: A History. Peter Eisenstadt is an affiliate scholar in the Department of History at Clemson University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman.