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Exploring Lincoln : great historians reappraise our greatest president
Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistible. Though some 16,000 books have been written about him, there is always more to say, new aspects of his life to consider, new facets of his persona to e...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | North's Civil War
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams
- Lincoln's role in the 1860 presidential campaign / William C. Harris
- The Baltimore plot: fact or fiction? / Michael J. Kline
- The old army and the seeds of change / John F. Marszalek
- Seward and Lincoln: a second look / Walter Stahr
- Mourning in America: death comes to the Civil War White Houses / Catherine Clinton
- Abraham Lincoln: admiral-in-chief / Craig L. Symonds
- Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee: reluctant "traitors" / William C. Davis
- "The Battle Hymn of the Republic": origins, influence, legacies / John Stauffer
- The emancipation of Abraham Lincoln / Eric Foner
- Lincoln and the struggle to end slavery / Richard Striner
- Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: a propaganda tool for the enemy? / Amanda Foreman
- The Gettysburg Campaign and the New York City draft riots: conspiracy or coincidence? / Barnet Schecter
- Lincoln and New York: a fraught relationship / Harold Holzer
- Lincoln and McClellan: a reappraisal / John C. Waugh
- Judging Lincoln as judge / Frank J. Williams
- The madness of Mary Lincoln: a new examination based on the discovery of her lost insanity letters / Jason Emerson.