Lincoln Revisited : New Insights from the Lincoln Forum / edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holzer, Harold, Author.

Contributor:

Simon, John Y., editor.

Holzer, Harold, editor.

Vogel, Dawn, editor.

Lincoln Forum.

Series:

Lincoln Forum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Lincoln, Abraham.

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

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Military leadership.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

United States.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents.Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidePub to what’s new and what’s noteworthy in this unfolding story—a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debates—including those about their own landmark works.Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in Lincoln’s legacy—from Matthew Pinsker on Lincoln’s private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime.The eighteen original essays explore every corner of Lincoln’s world—religion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination.In his 1947 classic, Lincoln Reconsidered, David Herbert Donald confronted the Lincoln myth. Today, the scholars in Lincoln Revisited give a new generation of students, scholars, and citizens the perspectives vital for understanding the constantly reinterpreted genius of Abraham Lincoln.

Contents:

Lincoln's political faith in the Peoria address / Joseph R. Fornieri

Lincoln's political religion and religious politics / Lucas E. Morel

Lincoln, Douglas, and popular sovereignty : the Mormon dimension / John Y. Simon

The campaign of 1860 : Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, and the campaign of words and images / Harold Holzer

"I see the president" : Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home / Matthew Pinsker

Varieties of religious experience : Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Jean Baker

The poet and the president : Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman / Daniel Mark Epstein

1862

a year of decision for President Lincoln and General Halleck / John F. Marszalek

"I felt it to be my duty to refuse" : the president and the slave trader / William Lee Miller

Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant / Jean Edward Smith

Motivating men : Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, and Kennedy / Geoffrey Perret

Lincoln and his admirals / Craig L. Symonds

After emancipation : Abraham Lincoln's black dream / Michael Vorenberg

The second inaugural address : the spoken words / Ronald C. White, Jr.

Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties : then and now / Frank J. Williams

After Lincoln's reelection : foreign complications / William C. Harris

Henry Adams on Lincoln / Garry Wills

Lincoln's assassination and John Wilkes Booth's Confederate connection / Edward Steers, Jr.

Notes:

Essays originally delivered as Lincoln Forum lectures between 2003 and 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-364).

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780823237876

0823237877

9780823240869

082324086X

0823247252

9780823227389

0823227383

OCLC:

647876476