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1865: America Makes War and Peace in Lincolns Final Year
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Description for 1865: America Makes War and Peace in Lincolns Final Year
Hardcover. Editor(s): Holzer, Harold; Gabbard, Sara Vaughn. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBWJ; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
From the final bloody battles of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the role of freed slaves and Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Americans faced a remarkable range of critical issues in 1865. In this illuminating collection, prominent historians of nineteenth-century America offer insightful overviews of the individuals, events, and issues that together made 1865 one of the most momentous years in American history.
Following an introduction by renowned Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer, nine new essays explore the end of the Civil War, Lincoln’s death, and the start of the tentative peace. Topics include the sending ... Read more
From the final bloody battles of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the role of freed slaves and Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Americans faced a remarkable range of critical issues in 1865. In this illuminating collection, prominent historians of nineteenth-century America offer insightful overviews of the individuals, events, and issues that together made 1865 one of the most momentous years in American history.
Following an introduction by renowned Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer, nine new essays explore the end of the Civil War, Lincoln’s death, and the start of the tentative peace. Topics include the sending ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809334018
SKU
V9780809334018
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About
Harold Holzer, senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of forty-six books about Abraham Lincoln, most recently Exploring Lincoln: Great Historians Reappraise Our Greatest President and The Civil War in 50 Objects. He has published six books with SIU Press. ... Read more
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