Our Lincoln : new perspectives on Lincoln and his world / edited by Eric Foner.
2008
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Title
Our Lincoln : new perspectives on Lincoln and his world / edited by Eric Foner.
Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Call Number
E457 .O97 2008
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393067569
0393067564
0393067564
Description
336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)225534794
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-320) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
9
Preface
11
Pt. I
President
1.
A. Lincoln, Commander in Chief / James M. Mcpherson
19
2.
Constitution and Civil Liberties Under Lincoln / Mark E. Neely, Jr.
37
3.
Abraham Lincoln and Jacksonian Democracy / Sean Wilentz
62
4.
Visualizing Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln as Student, Subject, and Patron of the Visual Arts / Harold Holzer
80
Pt. II
Emancipator
5.
Citizenship Rights, States' Rights, and Black Rights: Another Look at Lincoln and Race / James Oakes: Natural Rights
109
6.
Lincoln and Colonization / Eric Foner
135
7.
Allies for Emancipation?: Lincoln and Black Abolitionists / Manisha Sinha
167
Pt. III
Man
8.
Lincoln's Sacramental Language / Andrew Delbanco
199
9.
Lincoln's Religion / Richard Carwardine
223
10.
Abraham Lincoln: The Family That Made Him, the Family He Made / Catherine Clinton
249
Pt. IV
Politics and Memory
11.
Theft of Lincoln in Scholarship, Politics, and Public Memory / David W. Blight
269
Contributors
283
Notes
287
Index
321