Lincoln in New England

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In Search of His Forgotten Tours

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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“Combining history, travelogue, and memoir, Kent’s engagingly written account is sure to find a receptive audience among Lincoln scholars and enthusiasts alike.” —John C. Rodrigue, PhD, author of Freedom’s Crescent, finalist for the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and recipient of the John L. Nau III Prize in Civil War StudiesLincoln in New England revisits the important towns where Lincoln spoke and the pivotal figures that helped define the great issues leading to the Civil War. Readers join native New Englander and Lincoln historian David J. Kent as he travels back in time to examine the nation’s downward spiral into conflict.Readers will explore the crucial issues that predicated the civil war, the birth of the Republican Party as an anti-slavery faction, and New England’s own short-lived flirtation with secession in the spirit of independence. Through the book’s first-person travelogue style, historical maps with redrawn routes, original writings from Lincoln himself, insight from Lincoln historians, and black and white photographs, readers gain a full picture of the region’s vital influence leading up to the Civil War.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-03-03
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagGlobe Pequot Press
ISBN9781493092222

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David J. Kent is an award-winning Abraham Lincoln scholar, former scientist, author, and traveler. He is Immediate Past President of the Lincoln Group of DC with a decade of ongoing group leadership, as well as on the Executive Committee and Board of the Abraham Lincoln Institute and on the Board of Advisers for the Lincoln Forum. He is the author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius and Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America. David writes extensively on Lincoln for a range of media outlets. His writing has appeared in Civil War Times, Lincoln Herald, The Lincolnian, Lincoln Forum Bulletin, Smithsonian’s Civil War Studies newsletter, Writer’s Digest, Tesla Magazine, Science Panorama, and elsewhere. He writes ongoing columns in each quarterly issue of the Lincoln Herald and Lincolnian.

Many fine Lincoln-related guide books cover sites in the Midwest and the Upper South, but New England has been sadly neglected. No longer! David J. Kent, author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America, has filled the gap with this engaging combination of travelogue, autobiography, and history that illuminates Lincoln’s little-known 1848 campaign tour in Massachusetts and his highly significant 1860 lecture/campaign trip starting in New York and followed by a multi-stop swing through Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. No Lincolnians can claim to have comprehensively visited the Lincoln sites without touring New England, something they will especially enjoy doing with this book in hand to provide insight and entertainment along the way.