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Episode 98: Edward Achorn

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

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Historian Edward A. Corn talks about his new book, the Lincoln Miracle Inside the Republican Convention in May 1860. The election set the stage for Abraham Lincoln's White House and with his election the coming of the American Civil War. Louis Lapham: "The mood in 1860 would have a haunting familiarity to people today"

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