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- Wide Awake is a speculative young adult fiction novel by David Levithan published in 2006.
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May 14, 2024 · A propulsive account of our 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.
- Jon Grinspan
At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes.
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The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation. When Abraham Lincoln campaigned in Hartford, Connecticut, in...
May 1, 2024 · At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes.
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- Jon Grinspan
Drawing on his new book, Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War, Smithsonian historian Jon Grinspan examines exactly how the nation crossed the threshold from a political campaign into a war.
May 24, 2024 · This book features Duncan, a gay high school student who's not old enough to vote, but involved in volunteering for a presidential candidate in a near future election. As the book opens, this candidate has just been elected as the first gay Jewish president of the United States.
Sep 9, 2008 · The New York Times bestselling author of Every Day delivers an emotional and politically charged novel that’s perfect reading for an election year—and for every year—but most especially for those times when the very democratic process is called into question and basic rights are at risk.
