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Lincoln's unfinished work : the new birth of freedom from generation to generation / edited by Orville Vernon Burton and Peter Eisenstadt.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Burton, Orville Vernon, editor.
Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954- editor.
Project Muse
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Series:
Conflicting worlds
Conflicting worlds: new dimensions of the American Civil War
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham.
African Americans--Civil rights--History.
African Americans.
United States--Race relations--History.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 435 pages) : illustrations.
Place of Publication:
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2022).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
Other Format:
Print version: Lincoln's unfinished work
ISBN:
9780807178140
0807178144
9780807178157
0807178152
Publisher Number:
40031216724
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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