num_pages: 256
description: The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars writers and armchair historians alike ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial the leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their latest studies and arguments about the assassination its aftermath the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex than has been previously believed) and the iconography that Lincolns murder and deification inspired. Contributors also offer the most up-to-date accounts of the parallel legal event of the summer of 1865the relentless pursuit prosecution and punishment ofthe conspirators. Everything from graphic tributes to religious sermons to spontaneous outbursts on the streets of the nations cities to emotional mass-mourning at carefully organized funerals as well as the imposition of military jurisprudence to try the conspirators is examined in the light of fresh evidence and insightful analysis.The contributors are among the finest scholars who are studying Lincolns assassination.All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research their thoroughness their originality and their writing. In addition to the editors contributors include Thomas R. Turner Edward Steers Jr. Michael W. Kauffman Thomas P. Lowry Richard E. Sloan Elizabeth D. Leonard and Richard Nelson Current.
language: English
title: The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory
publisher: Fordham University Press