Lincoln's unfinished work : the new birth of freedom from generation to generation / edited by Orville Vernon Burton and Peter Eisenstadt.
| Other author | Burton, Orville Vernon editor. |
| Other author | Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022] |
| Description | vi, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War Conflicting worlds. ^A449147 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Lincoln's unfinished work Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022] 9780807178157 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021053746 |
| ISBN | 9780807176764 |
| ISBN | 0807176761 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
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