‘Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War’

Jon Grinspin, curator of Political History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, has a new book (published in the spring of 2024) on one of American history’s “most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war.”

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