HOMEPAAH CONFERENCES, PROGRAMS, and EXHIBITIONS
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 Monday, July 22, 2013 Reception, 5:30 p.m. Program, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Foundation of the Union League James Oakes will discuss his bookFreedom National, a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It shatters the widespread conviction that the Civil War was first and foremost a war to restore the Union and only gradually, when it became a military necessity, a war to end slavery. These two aims—"Liberty and Union, one and inseparable"—were intertwined in Republican policy from the very start of the war. Freedom National was awarded the 2013 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Oakes is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. For information about LCP Programs and Events please visit our events page here. Programming in African American History at the Library Company has been made possible through the generous support of the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Walter J. Miller Trust, and the Independence Foundation. |
