Title: The living Lincoln /
Authors: Horrocks, Thomas A.; Holzer, Harold.; Williams, Frank J.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham,; Presidents United States Biography; United States Politics and government
Abstract: Comprised of papers delivered at a symposium sponsored by Harvard University's Houghton Library, the Lincoln Forum, the Lincoln Group of Boston, and the Massachusetts Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission in April of 2009.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE LEADERSHIP IN THE MAKING -- 1.The Educated Mr. Lincoln / Frank J. Williams -- 2.Boss Lincoln: A Reappraisal of Abraham Lincoln's Party Leadership / Matthew Pinsker -- 3.The Silent President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln, the Orator Who Would Not Speak / Harold Holzer -- 4."I Know but Little about Ships": Lincoln and the Navy in the Civil War / Craig L. Symonds -- pt. TWO RACE AND SLAVERY -- 5.Lincoln's "Step-Children" and the National Family / John Stauffer -- 6.Lincoln and Race in Nineteenth-Century Perspective / Edna Greene Medford -- 7.Was Lincoln's Constitution Color-Blind? / Michael Vorenberg -- pt. THREE MARTYRDOM AND MEMORY -- 8.Lincoln's Practice of Republicanism: Striding through Richmond, April 4, 1865 / Richard Wightman Fox -- 9.The Fatal Transition: From Lincoln to Johnson / Gerald J. Prokopowicz -- 10.Abraham Lincoln in the Mind of the South: Assassination to Reconciliation / Barry Schwartz --