Book

Wide Awake

The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War

Jon Grinspan

2024

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Book Excerpt

A Nice Metaphor for the Country

On the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

by Jon Grinspan via HNN on August 20, 2024
Retrieval

These Torchlit Young Marchers Helped to Save American Democracy

They called themselves the Wide Awakes. They are a lesson in building a political movement.

by Jon Grinspan via Washington Post on May 14, 2024
Book Excerpt

The Club of Cape-Wearing Activists Who Helped Elect Lincoln—and Spark the Civil War

The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation.

by Jon Grinspan via Smithsonian on April 1, 2024

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