1865 : America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln's Final Year / edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holzer, Harold, editor.

Gabbard, Sara Vaughn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Influence.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Influence.

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

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale, [Illinois] : Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation's history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the conspirators.

Contents:

The Thirteenth Amendment / Michael Vorenberg

Grant and lincoln: partnership for victory / John F. Marszalek and Michael B. Ballard

Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Conference / Richard Striner

Abraham Lincoln's sermon on the mount: the Second Inaugural / Ronald C. White Jr

Lincoln's greatest escapade: walking through Richmond on April 4, 1865 / Richard Wightman Fox

Why was Lincoln murdered? / Edward Steers, Jr

Military justice, right or wrong: judging the Lincoln conspirators / Frank J. Williams

Allies or adversaries? Lincoln, Douglass, and Black suffrage / Edna Greene Medford

From living hero to martyred icon: the evolution of the Lincoln image in 1865 / Harold Holzer.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8093-3402-X

OCLC:

919183732