Lincoln oversaw the start of the Civil War but was not there for its end or, more importantly, for the Reconstruction of the South and the nation as a whole. In his analysis of how Lincoln’s post-war vision of America might have played out, Masur, Rutgers professor of history and American studies and author of Lincoln’s Hundred Days, among others, focuses on the president’s final address, delivered in April 1865.
One-hundred-fifty years after it ended, the Civil War continues to generate passionate feelings, vivid reenactments, and many, many books. In his study of what this conflict means to America, McPherson, Princeton professor emeritus and Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War historian, draws on his decades of study to show that the issues we struggle with today—equality, racism, states’ rights, social change—have their roots in the Civil War.
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