"We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of EarthJames M. McPherson University of Illinois Press, 1995 - 176 páginas In "We Cannot Escape History" a remarkable group of top Lincoln and Civil War scholars come together to explore the meaning of Lincoln for the destiny of the United States. They focus on Lincoln's view of American history and on his legacy - for Americans and for the world. In the process they deepen the reader's understanding of and appreciation for the complexity of the problems Lincoln faced and for the genius of his leadership, which surmounted these obstacles and preserved the United States as one nation indivisible while purging it of slavery, which had marred the democratic and egalitarian promise of America from the beginning. The contributors develop themes including Lincoln's conception of the United States as the last best hope for the preservation of democratic government and a republican polity, his view of American history and its meaning, his international impact, Lincoln and slavery, Lincoln and the uses of political power, and Lincoln as commander-in-chief in time of war. |
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... British radical newspaper expressed it in 1856 , " to the oppressors of Europe , especially those of England , the [ United States ] is a constant terror , and an everlasting menace " because it stood as " a practical and triumphant ...
... British radical newspaper expressed it in 1856 , " to the oppressors of Europe , especially those of England , the [ United States ] is a constant terror , and an everlasting menace " because it stood as " a practical and triumphant ...
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... British Establishment , the Times of London , considered the downfall of " the American colossus " a good " riddance of a nightmare .... Excepting a few gentlemen of republican tendencies , we all expect , we nearly all wish , success ...
... British Establishment , the Times of London , considered the downfall of " the American colossus " a good " riddance of a nightmare .... Excepting a few gentlemen of republican tendencies , we all expect , we nearly all wish , success ...
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... British flirtation with recognition of the Con- federacy . In 1863 the Russian fleet visited American ports , staying for months , ostensibly as a good - will gesture but in reality to prevent the British navy from bottling up Russian ...
... British flirtation with recognition of the Con- federacy . In 1863 the Russian fleet visited American ports , staying for months , ostensibly as a good - will gesture but in reality to prevent the British navy from bottling up Russian ...
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... British working- men toward the American war . On the one hand , most of them sympa- thized with the Union as the great symbol of progressivism and equal rights - the last best hope of earth for democracy - even though the liveli- hood ...
... British working- men toward the American war . On the one hand , most of them sympa- thized with the Union as the great symbol of progressivism and equal rights - the last best hope of earth for democracy - even though the liveli- hood ...
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... British chargé d'affaires in Washington branded the proclamation as " cold , vindictive , and entirely political . " Foreign Secretary Lord John Russell , who had pre- viously withheld sympathy from the Union because it did not act ...
... British chargé d'affaires in Washington branded the proclamation as " cold , vindictive , and entirely political . " Foreign Secretary Lord John Russell , who had pre- viously withheld sympathy from the Union because it did not act ...
Contenido
Lincoins History | 17 |
Lincolns Narrative of American Exceptionalism | 33 |
Emancipating the Republic Lincoln and the Means and Ends of Antislavery | 45 |
LINCOLNS LEADERSHIP | 61 |
Abraham Lincoln and Presidential Leadership | 63 |
The Civil War and the TwoParty System | 86 |
Avoid Saying Foolish Things The Legacy of Lincolns Impromptu Oratory | 105 |
LINCOLNS LEGACY | 125 |
What Is an American? Abraham Lincoln and Multiculturalism | 127 |
Abraham Lincoln Our EverPresent Contemporary | 139 |
The International Lincoln | 158 |
Contributors | 175 |
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Página 2 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.