Abraham Lincoln’s Great Chain-Reaction with Don Doyle and Denis Lacorne @AmericanLibraryParis

Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

A conversation with Don Doyle about his book "The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World".

Filmed on 22/10/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.

"The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World" highlights the overlooked connection between the Reconstruction era in the United States and the radical transformations in Europe during the late nineteenth century. From the end of slavery in Spain’s Caribbean colonies to the end of Napoleon III’s reign in France, Don Doyle illuminates how American political changes have never occurred in a vacuum.

This event was moderated by political scientist Denis Lacorne.

About the speakers:

Don H. Doyle is a retired professor of history who has taught at the University of South Carolina, Vanderbilt, and as a Fulbright professor in Rome, Genoa, and Rio de Janeiro. He has authored many books, among them "The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War" and "The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World". He lives in Folly Beach, South Carolina.

Denis Lacorne is a French political scientist. He is Director of Research Emeritus at the Centre de recherches internationales (CERI, Sciences Po). A specialist in the United States, his research focuses on American elections, the construction of national identities, multiculturalism, and the politics of tolerance and secularism from a comparative perspective.

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