Lincoln's America 1809-1865 / [electronic resource] :
edited by Joseph R. Fornieri and Sara Vaughn Gabbard.
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008.
- xii, 242 p. : ill., ports.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Interpreting Lincoln the man and his times / Joseph R. Fornieri -- A. Lincoln, philosopher : Lincoln's place in nineteenth-century intellectual history / Allen C. Guelzo -- Tocqueville and Lincoln on religion and democracy in America / Joseph R. Fornieri -- Schooling in Lincoln's America and Lincoln's extraordinary self-schooling / Myron Marty -- American religion, 1809-1865 / Mark Noll -- The middle-class marriage of Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Kenneth J. Winkle -- Abraham Lincoln : the making of the attorney-in-chief / Frank J. Williams -- "No such right" : the origins of Lincoln's rejection of the right of property in slaves / James Oakes -- Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery movement / Richard Striner -- "As good as it can be made" : Abraham Lincoln's heroic image in nineteenth-century art / Harold Holzer -- Lincoln and the nature of "a more perfect union" / Herman Belz -- Appendix: Chronology of Lincoln's America.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780809387137 (electronic bk.)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Political and social views. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--1815-1861. United States--Politics and government--1861-1865. United States--Social conditions--To 1865. United States--Intellectual life--19th century.