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.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

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

United States.

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

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To fully understand and appreciate Abraham Lincoln's legacy, it is important to examine the society that influenced the life, character, and leadership of the man who would become the Great Emancipator. Editors Joseph R. Fornieri and Sara Vaughn Gabbard have done just that in "Lincoln's America: 1809-1865," a collection of new and original essays by ten eminent historians that place Lincoln within his nineteenth-century cultural context. Among the topics explored in "Lincoln's America" are religion, education, middle-class family life, the antislavery movement, politics, and law. Of particular interest are the transition of American intellectual and philosophical thought from the Enlightenment to Romanticism and the influence of this evolution on Lincoln's own ideas. By examining aspects of Lincoln's life his personal piety in comparison with the beliefs of his contemporaries, his success in self-schooling when frontier youths had limited opportunities for a formal education, his marriage and home life in Springfield, and his legal career in light of broader cultural contexts such as the development of democracy, the growth of visual arts, the question of slaves as property, and French visitor Alexis de Tocqueville's observations on America, the contributors delve into the mythical Lincoln of folklore and discover a developing political mind and a changing nation. As "Lincoln's America" shows, the sociopolitical culture of nineteenth-century America was instrumental in shaping Lincoln's character and leadership. The essays in this volume paint a vivid picture of a young nation and its sixteenth president, arguably its greatest leader. "

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-69808-X

9786613675040

0-8093-8713-1

1-4416-1953-4

OCLC:

435772664