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Exploring Lincoln : great historians reappraise our greatest president /

Despite the literally thousands of books that have been written about Abraham Lincoln, he continues to fascinate.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Williams, Frank J. (Author, Editor), Symonds, Craig L. (Author, Editor), Holzer, Harold (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:North's Civil War.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.