Brought Forth on This Continent : : Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
Book - 2024 325.73 Ho, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / 19th Century / Holzer, Harold 4 On Shelf No requests on this item
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Call Number: 325.73 Ho, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / 19th Century / Holzer, Harold
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From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation's demographics, culture, and--perhaps most significantly--voting patterns. America's newest residents fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape, and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry. Abraham Lincoln's rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln's Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war would make clear just how important immigrants were, and how interwoven they had become in American society.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Dutton, [2024]
Year Published: 2024
Description: 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780451489012
0451489012
SUBJECTS
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Political and social views.
Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- 19th century.