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Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Influence Political campaigns United States 1860 Political clubs United States 1815-1861 Presidents United States Election 1860 Salem (Mass.) Biography Sisters Massachusetts Salem Biography United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes United States Intellectual life 19th century United States Politics and government 1861-1865 Women intellectuals Massachusetts Salem BiographyMarshall, Megan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MARGrinspan, Jon
Summary: At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.711 GRIGoodheart, Adam.
Summary: As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, historian Adam Goodheart presents an original account of how the Civil War began. 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second american revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to reject their parents' faith in compromise and appeasement, to do the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011