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Lincoln’s Hundred Days

The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union

Louis P. Masur

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ISBN 9780674284098

Publication Date: 05/12/2014

384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

20 halftones in 2 b/w mock inserts

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Louis P. Masur is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University.

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In the New York Times, read Louis Masur’s call for increased attention to the evils of human trafficking and involuntary servitude worldwide
In Smithsonian Magazine, see the physical objects used at the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, photographed together for the first time— and read Masur’s narrative of the events leading up to the signing
The movies would paint Lincoln as an unsullied hero of emancipation. Read Masur’s take on how Lincoln is portrayed in cinema at the Chronicle Review and Slate
At the Civil War Monitor, read Masur’s analysis of the battle of Antietam, the battle that “destroyed the romance of war,” but gave Lincoln the political capital he needed
At the American Scholar, read an in-depth article by Masur on Lincoln’s steady deliberation even under great pressure
Read Masur’s posts at the New York Times Civil War blog Disunion—including one on the story behind the painting “President Lincoln Reading the Emancipation Proclamation to His Cabinet” by Francis Bicknell Carpenter
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