Description: "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"--
Review Quotes: ". . . seamlessly covering two centuries of American history, Lincoln's Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation offers a possible starting point to completing the elusive project of equality for all Americans. . . . [it] is at once aspirational and clear-eyed about the challenges of interpreting history and effecting real change in our own times. It represents also the many creative possibilities of scholarly collaboration and reflects the richness of its originating conference. For these reasons, it is a work well worth our attention and will reward those who finish reading its illuminating pages."--Journal of Southern History