Bibliograph

The best American history essays on Lincoln, edited by Sean Wilentz for the Organization of American Historians

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The best American history essays on Lincoln, edited by Sean Wilentz for the Organization of American Historians

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-246) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The best American history essays on Lincoln

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

226357020

Responsibility statement

edited by Sean Wilentz for the Organization of American Historians

Table Of Contents

Abraham Lincoln and the self-made myth / Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln / Edmund Wilson -- Naturally anti-slavery : Lincoln, race, and the complexity of American liberty / James Oliver Horton -- A strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy / David Herbert Donald -- Mary and Abraham : a marriage / Jean H. Baker -- The master politician / Richard N. Current -- The origins and purpose of Lincoln's "house-divided" speech / Don E. Fehrenbacher -- Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession / David M. Potter -- The Emancipation Proclamation : the decision and the writing / John Hope Franklin -- Lincoln and the strategy of unconditional surrender / James M. McPherson -- Lincoln and the Constitution / Mark E. Neely, Jr

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