Bibliograph

Exploring Lincoln, great historians reappraise our greatest president, edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams

Type

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Exploring Lincoln, great historians reappraise our greatest president, edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Exploring Lincoln

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

887850836

Responsibility statement

edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams

Series statement

The North's Civil War

Sub title

great historians reappraise our greatest president

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

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