Tarah schwartz biography of abraham lincoln

3.5 stars. This book covers two very interesting things that I have always wanted to better understand.

First, who the real Abraham Lincoln was. Second, how our memory changes with time. Schwartz sets out to explain why and how (collective) memory evolves with time and finds that the best way to explicate that is by focusing on the memory of Abraham Lincoln.

This dissertation is a narrative history about nearly newly freed black Georgians who sought freedom beyond the borders of the Unites States by emigrating.

This dissertation is a narrative history about nearly newly freed black Georgians who sought freedom beyond the borders of the Unites States by emigrating.

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Nobody writes a dissertation alone.

Schwartz does a fantastic job of painting a time appropriate picture of how people viewed Lincoln at the end of his life (~1865). "When Abraham Lincoln awoke on the last day of his life, almost everyone could find something about him to dislike." The reasoning he gives, taken from primary sources both North and South alike, is very understandable when full context of the times is laid out.

Then, fascinating twists and turns occur as the nation comes together to mourn Lincoln following his assassination, followed by decades of decline in Lincoln fervor (and re-gro