The Thirteenth Amendment / Michael Vorenberg -- Grant and lincoln: partnership for victory / John F. Marszalek and Michael B. Ballard -- Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Conference / Richard Striner -- Abraham Lincoln's sermon on the mount: the Second Inaugural / Ronald C. White Jr -- Lincoln's greatest escapade: walking through Richmond on April 4, 1865 / Richard Wightman Fox -- Why was Lincoln murdered? / Edward Steers, Jr -- Military justice, right or wrong: judging the Lincoln conspirators / Frank J. Williams -- Allies or adversaries? Lincoln, Douglass, and Black suffrage / Edna Greene Medford -- From living hero to martyred icon: the evolution of the Lincoln image in 1865 / Harold Holzer