Harold Holzer presents Brought Forth on This Continent

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/al-1961/Title: Brought Forth on This Continent Author: Harold Holzer Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: mp3 Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins Release date: 02-13-24 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 12 ratings Genres: Politics & Activism Publisher's Summary: 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.