The age of Reconstruction : how Lincoln's new birth of freedom remade the world

"John Wilkes Booth fired his fatal shot on the evening of April 14, 1865, and as the news reached nearly every corner of the globe, President Abraham Lincoln lay dying. Pervasive sympathy for America-and the martyred Lincoln-provoked restless agitation for democratic reform on both sides of the...

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Main Author: Doyle, Don Harrison
Format: BOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Princeton University Press 2024
Series:America in the world
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