Age of Lincoln
Distinguished historian Orville Vernon Burton suggests that, while abolishing slavery was the age''s most extraordinary accomplishment, it was the inscribing of personal liberty into the nation''s millennial aspirations that was its most profound.
America had always perceived providence in its progress, but in the 1840s and 1850s, a pessimism accompanied a marked extremism. Even amidst historic pol...
Distinguished historian Orville Vernon Burton suggests that, while abolishing slavery was the age''s most extraordinary accomplishment, it was the inscribing of personal liberty into the nation''s millennial aspirations that was its most profound.
America had always perceived providence in its progress, but in the 1840s and 1850s, a pessimism accompanied a marked extremism. Even amidst historic pol...
