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Jon Grinspan's Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War tells the story of the Wide Awakes, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, who organized boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades to oppose slavery. These Wide Awakes—mostly working-class Americans in their twenties—became one of the largest, most spectacular, and most influential political movements in our history. To some, it demonstrated the power of a rising majority to push back against slavery.
Allen Guelzo's Voices from Gettysburg is the history of the Battle of Gettysburg told in the most personal way, through letters, papers, and memoirs. Books are available through eventbrite at registration and will also be available at the event.
Allen C. Guelzo is an American historian who serves as the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He formerly was a professor of History at Gettysburg College.
Jon Grinspan is a historian of American democracy, youth, and popular culture. He is a curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and a frequent contributor to the New York Times.
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