Politics & Prose -- Louis Masur ("Lincoln's Last Speech") and James McPherson ("War That Forged A Nation"):
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Description of Pictures: Louis P. Masur - Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion & James M. McPherson - The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
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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MM_150513_011.JPG: David Cohen
MM_150513_057.JPG: Louis Masur, James McPherson, and David Cohen
MM_150513_092.JPG: Louis Masur
MM_150513_098.JPG: James McPherson
MM_150513_245.JPG: Louis Masur and James McPherson
MM_150513_675.JPG: Edward Markey
MM_150513_681.JPG: Edward Markey and David Cohen
MM_150513_686.JPG: (standing) David Cohen, Edward Markey
(seating) Louis Masur, James McPherson
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2010_DC_McPherson_100410 Reynolds Center & Washington College -- James M. McPherson ("Alexander Gardner’s Antietam, Md., Confederate Dead by a Fence on the Hagerstown Road")
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