Explore Further
Much of the thrill of intellectual discovery lies in following the multiple paths that open before us whenever we read a book or have a stimulating discussion about ideas. The Teaching Librarians have created a great tool to suggest the kinds of questions that Garry Wills' book might raise, and to give you hints to help you find the answers to these and other questions you might think up yourself. Have you ever wondered who sat in the front row during Lincoln's speech? Do you know who stole the Gettysburg Address? If questions like these pique your interest, be sure to check out On the Same Page . . . at the Library.
Also, the Dean of the Social Sciences, Jon Gjerde, has come up with a list of books for those of you who are interested in further reading about Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and its aftermath.
Further reading
On Lincoln
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (1995)
Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Last Best Hope on Earth: Abraham Lincoln and
the Promise of America (1995)
James Oakes, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass,
Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2007)
On the Civil War and the end of slavery
James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (1988)
Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long (1979)
Ira Berlin, et. al., Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and
the Civil War (1992)
John Hope Franklin, The Emancipation Proclamation (1963)
On after the war and Reconstruction
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (1988)
Steven Hahn, A Nation Under our Feet: Black Political Struggles in
the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003)
Nicholas Lemann, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2007)
And a novel about the Battle of Gettysburg
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (1987)
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