The Lincoln Assassination : : Crime and Punishment Myth and MemoryA Lincoln Forum Book / / Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams; ed. by Harold Holzer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Symonds, Craig L.,; Williams, Frank J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Current, Richard Nelson,; Holzer, Harold,; Kauffman, Michael W.,; Leonard, Elizabeth D.,; Lowry, Thomas P.,; Sloan, Richard E.,; Steers Jr, Edward,; Symonds, Craig L.,; Turner, Thomas R.,; Williams, Frank J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Holzer, Harold,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: The North's Civil War
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Linc...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Lincoln’s Deathbed in Art and Memory
• 2. Abraham Lincoln’s New York City Funeral
• 3. Not Everybody Mourned Lincoln’s Death
• 4. Lincoln’s Chief Avenger: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt
• 5. The Lincoln Assassination in Law and Lore
• 6. Writing History in a Vacuum
• 7. ‘‘Let the Stain of Innocent Blood Be Removed from the Land’’
• 8. Process versus Truth in the Case of the Lincoln Conspiracy
• 9. The Martyr and the Myth
• List of Contributors
• Board of Advisors of the Lincoln Forum
• Index