Lincoln revisited new insights from the Lincoln Forum /

Lincoln revisited new insights from the Lincoln Forum / [electronic resource] : At head of title: Lincoln Forum edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2007. - xiii, 369 p. : ill., ports.

Essays originally delivered as Lincoln Forum lectures between 2003 and 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-364).

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.


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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Political and social views.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Military leadership.


Presidents--United States--Biography.


United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.


Electronic books.

E457.8 / .L747 2007

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