Lincoln's America : 1809-1865 / edited by Joseph R. Fornieri and Sara Vaughn Gabbard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fornieri, Joseph R.

Gabbard, Sara Vaughn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political and social views.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Political and social views.

United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.

United States.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Social conditions.

United States--Intellectual life--19th century.

Intellectual life.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale. : Southern Illinois University Press, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction: Interpreting Lincoln the man and his times / Joseph R. Fornieri

A. Lincoln, philosopher : Lincoln's place in nineteenth-century intellectual history / Allen C. Guelzo

Tocqueville and Lincoln on religion and democracy in America / Joseph R. Fornieri

Schooling in Lincoln's America and Lincoln's extraordinary self-schooling / Myron Marty

American religion, 1809-1865 / Mark Noll

The middle-class marriage of Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Kenneth J. Winkle

Abraham Lincoln : the making of the attorney-in-chief / Frank J. Williams

"No such right" : the origins of Lincoln's rejection of the right of property in slaves / James Oakes

Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery movement / Richard Striner

"As good as it can be made" : Abraham Lincoln's heroic image in nineteenth-century art / Harold Holzer

Lincoln and the nature of "a more perfect union" / Herman Belz

Appendix: Chronology of Lincoln's America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780809328789

080932878X

OCLC:

191846798