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Lincoln and Immigration

Best known for his role in preserving the Union and destroying slavery, Abraham Lincoln also had both opportunities and obligations to confront, cure, or temper seething resentment against new immigrants to America. How the Civil War president responded, Harold Holzer suggests, may provide inspiration in the furious contemporary debate on immigration.











When: Thu., Mar. 3, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Where: New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
212-873-3400
Price: $38
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Best known for his role in preserving the Union and destroying slavery, Abraham Lincoln also had both opportunities and obligations to confront, cure, or temper seething resentment against new immigrants to America. How the Civil War president responded, Harold Holzer suggests, may provide inspiration in the furious contemporary debate on immigration.

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