Exploring Lincoln great historians reappraise our greatest president
Title
Exploring Lincoln [electronic resource] : great historians reappraise our greatest president / edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams.
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.
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"A Lincoln Forum book"
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Title
Exploring Lincoln [electronic resource] : great historians reappraise our greatest president / edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams.