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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Fornieri, Joseph R.; Gabbard, Sara Vaughn.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 242 p. :; ill., ports.

Table of 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.