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Our Lincoln : new perspectives on Lincoln and his world
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A volume of original essays on the sixteenth president includes James M. McPherson's evaluation of his politics and wartime strategies, Sean Wilentz's perspectives on Lincoln's party politics, and ...
A volume of original essays on the sixteenth president includes James M. McPherson's evaluation of his politics and wartime strategies, Sean Wilentz's perspectives on Lincoln's party politics, and Eric Foner's assessment of his views on slavery and race.
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- Creator
- edited by Eric Foner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780393067569, 0393067564
- OCLC
- ocn225534794
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-320) and index.
- A. Lincoln, commander in chief / James M. McPherson -- The Constitution and civil liberties under Lincoln / Mark E. Neely, Jr. -- Abraham Lincoln and Jacksonian democracy / Sean Wilentz -- Visualizing Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln as student, subject, and patron of the visual arts / Harold Holzer -- Natural rights, citizenship rights, states' rights, and Black rights: another look at Lincoln and race / James Oakes -- Lincoln and colonization / Eric Foner -- Allies for emancipation?: Lincoln and Black abolitionists / Manisha Sinha -- Lincoln's sacramental language / Andrew Delbanco -- Lincoln's religion / Richard Carwardine -- Abraham Lincoln: the family that made him, the family he made / Catherine Clinton -- The theft of Lincoln in scholarship, politics, a public memory / David W. Blight
Subjects
- 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 -- 19th century.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.