For The Vast Future Also : : Essays from the Journal of the Lincoln Association / / Thomas F. Schwartz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Schwartz, Thomas F.,
• MitwirkendeR: Berwanger, Eugene H.,; Breiseth, Christopher N.,; Fehrenbacher, Don E.,; Ferris, Norman B.,; Gienapp, William E.,; Hope Franklin, John,; Hubbell, John T.,; Hyman, Harold M.,; McPherson, James M.,; Niven, John,; Paludan, Phillip S.,; Vorenberg, Michael,; Williams, T. Harry,; Zilversmit, Arthur,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The North's Civil War
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)

"For a Vast Future Also": Essays from The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, brings together the most informative and thoughtful articles by fourteen accomplished scholars in the Lincoln field. The essays provide compact, detailed treatments concerning different facets of three general themes: Lincoln and the problems of emancipation; Lincoln and presidential politics; and the Lincoln legacy. Readers of the collection will understand why the Civil War profoundly changed the nation. These essays give insight into how Lincoln and his administration dealt with the profound issues of war and slavery and the continuing legacy of Lincoln and the war. No book or essay collection brings together the writings of such luminaries in the field as John Hope Franklin, James M. McPherson, Don E. Fehrenbacher, T. Harry Williams, Phillip S. Paludan, Harold Hyman, John Niven, William A. Gienapp, Norman B. Ferris, John T. Hubbell, Arthur Zilversmit, Eugene H. Berwanger, Christopher N. Breiseth, and Michael Vorenberg. Researchers now have these valuable essays available in one volume. It offers the general public the distillation of scholarship supported by the Abraham Lincoln Association over the past twenty-five years. And college and university introductory courses will find this book a valuable summary of, and introduction to, the major issues of the Civil War period.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: LINCOLN AND THE PROBLEMS OF EMANCIPATION -- 1. Lincoln and the Problem of Race: A Decade of Interpretations -- 2. Lincoln's Constitutional Dilemma: Emancipation and Black Suffrage -- 3. Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Black Colonization -- 4. Abraham Lincoln and the Recruitment of Black Soldiers -- 5. Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: Another Debate -- PART 2: LINCOLN AND PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS -- 6. Lincoln's Wartime Leadership: The First Hundred Days -- 7. The Hedgehog and the Foxes -- 8. Abraham Lincoln and the Border States -- 9. Lincoln and Chase, a Reappraisal -- 10. Lincoln and Seward in Civil War Diplomacy: Their Relationship at the Outset Reexamined -- 11. Lincoln and Congress: Why Not Congress and Lincoln? -- 12. Two War Leaders: Lincoln and Davis -- PART 3: THE LINCOLN LEGACY -- 13. Lincoln, the Rule of Law, and the American Revolution -- 14. The Use and Misuse of the Lincoln Legacy -- About the Contributors -- About the Editor -- Index