Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Fornieri, Joseph R.
2. Gabbard, Sara Vaughn.

Description

1. xii, 242 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Political and social views
2. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
3. Presidents > United States > Biography
4. United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861
5. United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865
6. United States > Social conditions > To 1865
7. United States > Intellectual life > 19th century

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. IK 09-507

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Lincoln's America : 1809-1865 / edited by Joseph R. Fornieri and Sara Vaughn Gabbard.

Imprint

1. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Fornieri, Joseph R.
2. Gabbard, Sara Vaughn.

LCCN

1. 2008002939

ISBN

1. 9780809328789 (alk. paper)
2. 080932878X (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. IK 09-507