Lincoln Revisited

New Insights from the Lincoln Forum

Harold Holzer, Dawn Vogel, John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, Dawn Vogel

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780823227372
  9780823227365
• eBook ISBN:
  9780823227389
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historical Biographies
• Index: History

In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet's politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents.

Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidePub to what's new and what's noteworthy in this unfolding story—a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debates—including those about their own landmark works.

Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in Lincoln's legacy—from Matthew Pinsker on Lincoln's private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime.

The eighteen original essays explore every corner of Lincoln's world—religion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination.
In his 1947 classic, Lincoln Reconsidered, David Herbert Donald confronted the Lincoln myth. Today, the scholars in Lincoln Revisited give a new generation of students, scholars, and citizens the perspectives vital for understanding the constantly reinterpreted genius of Abraham Lincoln.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1 Lincoln’s Political Faith in the Peoria Address
• CHAPTER 2 Lincoln’s Political Religion and Religious Politics
• CHAPTER 3 Lincoln, Douglas, and Popular Sovereignty: The Mormon Dimension
• CHAPTER 4 The Campaign of 1860: Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, and the Campaign of Words and Images
• CHAPTER 5 “I See the President”: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home
• CHAPTER 6 Varieties of Religious Experience: Abraham and Mary Lincoln
• CHAPTER 7 The Poet and the President: Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman
• CHAPTER 8 1862—A Year of Decision for President Lincoln and General Halleck
• CHAPTER 9 “I Felt It to Be My Duty to Refuse”: The President and the Slave Trader
• CHAPTER 10 Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant
• CHAPTER 11 Motivating Men: Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, and Kennedy
• CHAPTER 12 Lincoln and His Admirals
• CHAPTER 13 After Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln’s Black Dream
• CHAPTER 14 The Second Inaugural Address: The Spoken Words
• CHAPTER 15 Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties: Then and Now
• CHAPTER 16 After Lincoln’s Reelection: Foreign Complications
• CHAPTER 17 Henry Adams on Lincoln
• CHAPTER 18 Lincoln’s Assassination and John Wilkes Booth’s Confederate Connection
• Notes
• Contributors
• The Lincoln Forum