Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) Section - Gettysburg Campaign Embattled Freedom reveals as never

Embattled Freedom reveals as never before the everyday experiences of these refugees from slavery as they made their way through the vast landscape of army-supervised camps that emerged during the war

Through a fuller appreciation of the dynamics of sex and race

The Civil War had just begun

inspiring and driving the author deep into Lincoln’s universe and to much that is not often considered especially as to racism and race

Washington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge

Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) Section - Gettysburg Campaign Embattled Freedom reveals as neverFor 150 years, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has fascinated the American people. Relatively few academic historians, however, have devoted study to it, viewing the murder as a side note tied to neither the Civil War nor Reconstruction. Over time, the traditional story of the assassination has become littered with myths, from the innocence of Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd to John Wilkes Booths escape to Oklahoma or India, where he died by suicide