Lincoln's America:1809-1865

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Fornieri Joseph R.; Gabbard Sara Vaughn.
Published: Southern Illinois University Press,
Publisher Address: Carbondale.
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
USA
Carrier Form: xii, 242 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780809328789 (alk. paper)
080932878X (alk. paper)
Index Number: K712
CLC: K712.42
K837.127
Call Number: K712.42/L741
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Interpreting Lincoln the man and his times / Joseph R. Fornieri -- A. Lincoln, philosopher : Lincoln's place in nineteenth-century intellectual history / Allen C. Guelzo -- Tocqueville and Lincoln on religion and democracy in America / Joseph R. Fornieri -- Schooling in Lincoln's America and Lincoln's extraordinary self-schooling / Myron Marty -- American religion, 1809-1865 / Mark Noll -- The middle-class marriage of Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Kenneth J. Winkle -- Abraham Lincoln : the making of the attorney-in-chief / Frank J. Williams -- "No such right" : the origins of Lincoln's rejection of the right of property in slaves / James Oakes -- Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery movement / Richard Striner -- "As good as it can be made" : Abraham Lincoln's heroic image in nineteenth-century art / Harold Holzer -- Lincoln and the nature of "a more perfect union" / Herman Belz -- Appendix: Chronology of Lincoln's America.