Lincoln Revisited : : New Insights from the Lincoln Forum / / Harold Holzer, Dawn Vogel; ed. by John Y. Simon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Holzer, Harold,; Vogel, Dawn,
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Jean,; Epstein, Daniel Mark,; Fornieri, Joseph R.,; Harris, William C.,; Holzer, Harold,; Marszalek, John F.,; Miller, William Lee,; Morel, Lucas E.,; Perret, Geoffrey,; Pinsker, Matthew,; Simon, John Y.,; Smith, Jean Edward,; Steers, Edward,; Symonds, Craig L.,; Vorenberg, Michael,; White, Ronald C.,; Williams, Frank J.,; Wills, Garry,
• HerausgeberIn: Simon, John Y.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (398 p.)

In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year hi...

Table of Contents

• Lincoln Revisited
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1. Lincoln’s Political Faith in the Peoria Address
• CHAPTER 2. Lincoln’s Political Religion and Religious Politics
• CHAPTER 3. Lincoln, Douglas, and Popular Sovereignty: The Mormon Dimension
• CHAPTER 4. The Campaign of 1860: Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, and the Campaign of Words and Images
• CHAPTER 5. ‘‘I See the President’’: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home
• CHAPTER 6. Varieties of Religious Experience: Abraham and Mary Lincoln
• CHAPTER 7. The Poet and the President: Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman
• CHAPTER 8. 1862—A Year of Decision for President Lincoln and General Halleck
• CHAPTER 9. ‘‘I Felt It to Be My Duty to Refuse’’: The President and the Slave Trader
• CHAPTER 10. Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant
• CHAPTER 11. Motivating Men: Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, and Kennedy
• CHAPTER 12. Lincoln and His Admirals
• CHAPTER 13. After Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln’s Black Dream
• CHAPTER 14. The Second Inaugural Address: The Spoken Words
• CHAPTER 15. Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties: Then and Now
• CHAPTER 16. After Lincoln’s Reelection: Foreign Complications
• CHAPTER 17. Henry Adams on Lincoln
• CHAPTER 18. Lincoln’s Assassination and John Wilkes Booth’s Confederate Connection
• Notes
• Contributors
• The Lincoln Forum