Lincoln's America:1809-1865
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Published: |
Southern Illinois University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Carbondale. |
Publication Dates: | c2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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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. |