Michael Vorenberg

St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Westfall Politics and History Series Presents Civil War Historian Michael Vorenberg

 
Author of  "Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War"
 

Historian Michael Vorenberg attempts to determine the long-debated endpoint for the Civil War. Was it April 9, when Lee surrendered to Grant? Or ten weeks afterward, when a Texas commander proclaimed Juneteenth the end of slavery? Or August 1866, when President Andrew Johnson simply declared “the insurrection is at an end”? To say how a war ends is to suggest how it should be remembered, and Vorenberg’s search expands our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and peace.

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