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

Contributor(s): Fornieri, Joseph R | Gabbard, Sara Vaughn | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Carbondale. : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008Description: xii, 242 p. : ill., ports.Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 | Presidents -- United States -- Biography | 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.7092 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.