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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816220803321

Titolo

1865 : America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln's Final Year / / edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, [Illinois] : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8093-3402-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

973.8

Soggetti

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865

United States Politics and government 1861-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Thirteenth Amendment / Michael Vorenberg -- Grant and lincoln: partnership for victory / John F. Marszalek and Michael B. Ballard -- Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Conference / Richard Striner -- Abraham Lincoln's sermon on the mount: the Second Inaugural / Ronald C. White Jr -- Lincoln's greatest escapade: walking through Richmond on April 4, 1865 / Richard Wightman Fox -- Why was Lincoln murdered? / Edward Steers, Jr -- Military justice, right or wrong: judging the Lincoln conspirators / Frank J. Williams -- Allies or adversaries? Lincoln, Douglass, and Black suffrage / Edna Greene Medford -- From living hero to martyred icon: the evolution of the Lincoln image in 1865 / Harold Holzer.