The Cropper Lads Present: Songs of the Wide-Awakes
Who’s ready to defend democracy? In 1860, men and women across America took to parlors, town squares, and street corners. They called themselves the Wide-Awakes, and they marched, chanted, and sang to prove that democracy was worth fighting for, to end the domination of their country by pro-slavery interests, and to elect Abraham Lincoln president. …
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