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Exploring Lincoln great historians reappraise our greatest president

Title
  1. Exploring Lincoln [electronic resource] : great historians reappraise our greatest president / edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams.
Published by
  1. New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Holzer, Harold.
  2. Symonds, Craig L.
  3. Williams, Frank J.
Description
  1. 1 online resource (viii, 293 pages) : illustrations.
Series statement
  1. The North's Civil War
Uniform title
  1. Exploring Lincoln (Online)
Subject
  1. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Influence
  2. Political leadership > United States > History > 19th century
  3. Presidents > United States > Biography
  4. United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865
Contents
  1. Introduction / Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams -- Lincoln's role in the 1860 presidential campaign / William C. Harris -- The Baltimore plot: fact or fiction? / Michael J. Kline -- The old army and the seeds of change / John F. Marszalek -- Seward and Lincoln: a second look / Walter Stahr -- Mourning in America: death comes to the Civil War White Houses / Catherine Clinton -- Abraham Lincoln: admiral-in-chief / Craig L. Symonds -- Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee: reluctant "traitors" / William C. Davis -- "The Battle Hymn of the Republic": origins, influence, legacies / John Stauffer -- The emancipation of Abraham Lincoln / Eric Foner -- Lincoln and the struggle to end slavery / Richard Striner -- Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: a propaganda tool for the enemy? / Amanda Foreman -- The Gettysburg Campaign and the New York City draft riots: conspiracy or coincidence? / Barnet Schecter -- Lincoln and New York: a fraught relationship / Harold Holzer -- Lincoln and McClellan: a reappraisal / John C. Waugh -- Judging Lincoln as judge / Frank J. Williams -- The madness of Mary Lincoln: a new examination based on the discovery of her lost insanity letters / Jason Emerson.
Note
  1. "A Lincoln Forum book"
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  1. Access restricted to authorized users.
Title
  1. Exploring Lincoln [electronic resource] : great historians reappraise our greatest president / edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams.
Imprint
  1. New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition
  1. First edition.
Series
  1. The North's Civil War
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
  1. Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
  1. Available from home with a valid library card
  2. Available onsite at NYPL
Added author
  1. Holzer, Harold.
  2. Symonds, Craig L.
  3. Williams, Frank J.
LCCN
  1. 2014033578
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