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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814349003321

Titolo

Lincoln's America [[electronic resource] ] : 1809-1865 / / edited by Joseph R. Fornieri and Sara Vaughn Gabbard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-280-69808-X

9786613675040

0-8093-8713-1

1-4416-1953-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FornieriJoseph R

GabbardSara Vaughn

Disciplina

973.7092

Soggetti

Presidents - United States

United States Politics and government 1815-1861

United States Politics and government 1861-1865

United States Social conditions To 1865

United States Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Interpreting Lincoln the man and his times / Joseph R. Fornieri -- A. Lincoln, philosopher : Lincoln's place in nineteenth-century intellectual history / Allen C. Guelzo -- Tocqueville and Lincoln on religion and democracy in America / Joseph R. Fornieri -- Schooling in Lincoln's America and Lincoln's extraordinary self-schooling / Myron Marty -- American religion, 1809-1865 / Mark Noll -- The middle-class marriage of Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Kenneth J. Winkle -- Abraham Lincoln : the making of the attorney-in-chief / Frank J. Williams -- "No such right" : the origins of Lincoln's rejection of the right of property in slaves / James Oakes -- Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery movement / Richard Striner -- "As good as it can be made" : Abraham Lincoln's heroic image in nineteenth-century art / Harold Holzer -- Lincoln and the nature of "a more perfect union" / Herman Belz -- Appendix: Chronology of Lincoln's America.