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Writing a biography of Lancaster’s 19th-century antislavery congressman, Thaddeus Stevens, “was sort of a long-term plan” for historian Bruce Levine. “He’s kind of a nearly lifelong hero of mine,” says Levine, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an author of several books on the Civil War era. “I first learned about his existence, really, when I was in college and took a Black history course,” Levine says by phone. “I grew up in the era of the 1960s civil rights movement (and) have always been dedicated to that cause. And when I read about Thaddeus Stevens, everything I read about him appealed to me.”

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