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Lincoln's Assassination /

For 150 years, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has fascinated the American people. Relatively few academic historians, however, have devoted study to it, viewing the murder as a side note tied to neither the Civil War nor Reconstruction. Over time, the traditional story of the assassination has...

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Auteur principal: Steers, Edward, Jr., 1937- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:For 150 years, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has fascinated the American people. Relatively few academic historians, however, have devoted study to it, viewing the murder as a side note tied to neither the Civil War nor Reconstruction. Over time, the traditional story of the assassination has become littered with myths, from the innocence of Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd to John Wilkes Booth's escape to Oklahoma or India, where he died by suicide several years later. In this succinct volume, Edward Steers, Jr. sets the record straight, expertly analyzing the historical evidence to explai.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (160 pages).
ISBN:9780809333509