Lincoln revisited : new insights from the Lincoln Forum / / edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel.

• Author: Lincoln Forum.
• TeilnehmendeR: Simon, John Y.; Holzer, Harold.; Vogel, Dawn.; Lincoln Forum.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 369 p. :; ill., ports.
• Notes: Essays originally delivered as Lincoln Forum lectures between 2003 and 2005.

Table of 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.