Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum

Harold Holzer; Dawn Vogel

Published by Fordham University Press 2009

Lincoln Revisited

New Insights from the Lincoln Forum

Harold Holzer and Dawn Vogel
Edited by: John Y. Simon

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823240869

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About this book

In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents.

Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidePub to what’s new and what’s noteworthy in this unfolding story—a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debates—including those about their own landmark works.

Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in Lincoln’s legacy—from Matthew Pinsker on Lincoln’s private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime.

The eighteen original essays explore every corner of Lincoln’s world—religion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination.
In his 1947 classic, Lincoln Reconsidered, David Herbert Donald confronted the Lincoln myth. Today, the scholars in Lincoln Revisited give a new generation of students, scholars, and citizens the perspectives vital for understanding the constantly reinterpreted genius of Abraham Lincoln.

Author / Editor information

Simon John Y. :

John Y. Simon was Professor of History at Southern Illinois University.Holzer Harold :

Harold Holzer is Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York Historical Society and one of the nation’s leading authorities on Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He is chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and has written, co-written, or edited forty-seven books, most recently Lincoln and the Power of the Press.Vogel Dawn :

Dawn Vogel is an editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.

Reviews

. . . together, these essays make a useful collection.

Lincoln Revisited. . .draws together some of the best and brightest Abraham Lincoln scholars around. . .it is a well written biography that can stand alongside some of the best of its predecessors.

In an era when bookstore shelves are groaning with new Lincoln titles, Lincoln Revisited gives overburdened Lincoln readers a valuable tool for deciding which ones deserve their further attention.

. . . Gathers writings of academics and independent scholars on myriad aspects of the nation's 16th president.

. . . Fresh and timely and benefits from the well-honed skills of a community of scholars who know their subject best.

—Mark E. Steiner:
Lincoln Revisited is a highly readable and useful guide to scholarship on the eve of the Lincoln bicentennial.

Anyone with an interest in Lincoln's life and actions in the Civil War would be well served in reading this work.

. . .the essays in this collection explore with fresh perspectives traditional questions. . .Some of the essays are provocative. Some are subtle. All are excellent.

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Lincoln Revisited Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Harold Holzer Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
CHAPTER 1. Lincoln’s Political Faith in the Peoria Address Joseph R. Fornieri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2. Lincoln’s Political Religion and Religious Politics Lucas E. Morel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
CHAPTER 3. Lincoln, Douglas, and Popular Sovereignty: The Mormon Dimension John Y. Simon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
CHAPTER 4. The Campaign of 1860: Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, and the Campaign of Words and Images Harold Holzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
CHAPTER 5. ‘‘I See the President’’: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home Matthew Pinsker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
CHAPTER 6. Varieties of Religious Experience: Abraham and Mary Lincoln Jean Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
CHAPTER 7. The Poet and the President: Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman Daniel Mark Epstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
CHAPTER 8. 1862—A Year of Decision for President Lincoln and General Halleck John F. Marszalek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
CHAPTER 9. ‘‘I Felt It to Be My Duty to Refuse’’: The President and the Slave Trader William Lee Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
CHAPTER 10. Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant Jean Edward Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
CHAPTER 11. Motivating Men: Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, and Kennedy Geoffrey Perret Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
CHAPTER 12. Lincoln and His Admirals Craig L. Symonds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
CHAPTER 13. After Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln’s Black Dream Michael Vorenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
CHAPTER 14. The Second Inaugural Address: The Spoken Words Ronald C. White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
CHAPTER 15. Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties: Then and Now Frank J. Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
CHAPTER 16. After Lincoln’s Reelection: Foreign Complications William C. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
CHAPTER 17. Henry Adams on Lincoln Garry Wills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
CHAPTER 18. Lincoln’s Assassination and John Wilkes Booth’s Confederate Connection Edward Steers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
The Lincoln Forum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	370

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 398
Keywords: Biography; Civil War; History

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Published: August 25, 2009
ISBN: 9780823240869