The Lincoln assassination
Subtitle: crime and punishment, myth and memory
By: edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams.
Contributors: Holzer, Harold.; Symonds, Craig L.; Williams, Frank J.; Lincoln Forum.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The North's Civil War
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780823232260; 9780823232284
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Assassination; Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Death and burial; Assassins -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: "The Lincoln Forum."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing history in a vacuum : the Lincoln assassination / Thomas R. Turner; title: "Let the stain of innocent blood be removed from the land" : the military trial of the Lincoln conspirators / Edward Steers, Jr.; title: Process versus truth in the case of the Lincoln conspiracy / Michael W. Kauffman; title: Lincoln's deathbed in art and memory : the "rubber room" phenomenon / Harold Holzer and Frank J. Williams; title: Not everybody mourned Lincoln's death / Thomas P. Lowry; title: Abraham Lincoln's New York City funeral / Richard E. Sloan; title: Lincoln's chief avenger : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt / Elizabeth D. Leonard; title: The Lincoln assassination in law and lore / Frank J. Williams; title: The martyr and the myth : the Lincoln nobody knows / Richard Nelson Current.