On Lincoln / edited by John T. Hubbell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hubbell, John T., editor.

Series:

Civil War history readers ; Volume 3.

Civil War history readers ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Lincoln, Abraham.

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

United States.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this third volume in its multivolume series, reintroducing the most influential of more than 500 articles published in the journal. From military command, strategy, and tactics to political leadership, race, abolitionism, the draft, and women's issues, and from the war's causes to its aftermath and Reconstruction, Civil War History has published pioneering and provocative analyses of the determining aspects of the Middle Period. In this third volume of the Civil War History Readers, John T. Hubbell has selected groundbreaking essays by Douglas L. Wilson, Mark Neely Jr., Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones, Ludwell Johnson, Allen Guelzo, and other scholars who examine Lincoln's assertive idealism, leadership, views on slavery, abolitionism, emancipation, and Lincoln as a war president. Hubbell's introduction assesses the contribution of each article to our understanding of Lincoln and the Civil War era.

Contents:

Abraham Lincoln as revolutionary / Otto H. Olsen

Lincoln and Van Buren in the steps of the fathers / Major L. Wilson

On the verge of greatness: psychological reflections on Lincoln at the Lyceum / Charles B. Strozier

Abraham Lincoln, Ann Rutledge, and the evidence of Herndon's informants / Douglas L. Wilson

Abraham Lincoln and "That fatal First of January" / Douglas L. Wilson

Lincoln and the Mexican War: an argument by analogy / Mark E. Neely Jr

Lincoln as military strategist / Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones

Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln as war presidents: nothing succeeds like success / Ludwell H. Johnson

To suppress or not to suppress: Abraham Lincoln and the Chicago Times / Craig D. Tenney

"A Catholic family newspaper" views the Lincoln administration: John Mullaly's Copperhead weekly / Joseph George Jr

Abraham Lincoln on labor and capital / James A. Stevenson

Lincoln's Calvinist transformation: emancipation and war / Nicholas Parrillo

Only his stepchildren: Lincoln and the Negro / Don. E. Fehrenbacher

Defending emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling letter / Allen C. Guelzo

The historian as gamesman: Otto Eisenschiml, 1880-1963 / William Hanchett.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781612778532

1612778534

9781612778525

1612778526

OCLC:

878130645