Reading Between the Lines
Lincoln on the Civil War
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, the Council is pleased to offer a new Reading Between the Lines program featuring Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches.
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Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches is a volume of nine addresses exploring issues of freedom, civic duty, slavery and the Constitution, made over the course of the War and Reconstruction. Organizations awarded this program will focus all four sessions on the speeches in this text, exploring in depth one or two readings per meeting. |
This series is sponsored by Penguin Books. 
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