From the Bookshelf of Derry Public Library…

[close] This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. Lincoln is often lauded for his abolitionist views...and decried for seeming to conform to whatever was in popular opinion at the time. Were both views correct? Was he that and more? Let's find out together as we explore Foner's well-documented look at the turbulent racial politics of the time and an honest view of Lincoln's views on slavery, the union and more.