BOOKSHELF
AMERICAN COPPERHEADS: The book "Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North" by Jennifer Weber, assistant professor of history, is a study of northern Democrats who were opposed to the Civil War and President Lincoln's handling of it. The "Copperheads," as they were called, are often downplayed as not influential or important, but Weber argues they were larger than often recognized and are proof that the north did not support Lincoln and the war unconditionally, as is generally assumed. Copperheads nearly won control of the Democratic Party in 1864 on a platform calling for an immediate end to hostilities.
NOTABLE ALUMS
Alumnus George Brown blazed a new trail in American politics. Brown was the first African-American elected lieutenant governor in the United States (1974) and first African-American elected to statewide office in Colorado.
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