Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration - Paperback

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Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration - Paperback

Name: Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration - Paperback
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SKU: 9780451489036
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by Harold Holzer

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Now in paperback!

**Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln Award**
**Winner of the Lincoln Group of New York's Award of Achievement**

From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War.

In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation's demographics, culture, and--perhaps most significantly--voting patterns. America's newest residents fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry.

Abraham Lincoln's rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln's Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war made clear just how important immigrants were, and how interwoven they had become in American society.

Harold Holzer, winner of the Lincoln Prize, charts Lincoln's political career through the lens of immigration, from his role as a member of an increasingly nativist political party to his evolution into an immigration champion, a progression that would come at the same time as he refined his views on abolition and Black citizenship. As Holzer writes, "The Civil War could not have been won without Lincoln's leadership; but it could not have been fought without the immigrant soldiers who served and, by the tens of thousands, died that the 'nation might live.'" An utterly captivating and illuminating work, Brought Forth on This Continent assesses Lincoln's life and legacy in a wholly original way, unveiling remarkable similarities between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first.

ISBN	9780451489036
Author	Harold Holzer
Publisher	Dutton
Genre	Biography, History, and Education
Format	Paperback
Published	February 2026
Language	ENG- English
Pages	480
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print