A revised edition of the author's acclaimed biography of Lincoln and the Civil War era explores the role of Abraham Lincoln in nineteenth-century American history and provides two new essays on Lincoln's education and on his complex, frequently conflicting relationship to the rule of law. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
McIntosh's death and Lovejoy's were intertwined. According to a prominent witness (the abolitionist minister Edward Beecher), Lovejoy had delivered a final speech in which he referred to the lynchings “of the individuals of Vicksburg” ...
Lincoln Reconsidered
The eight contributors to this volume assess the proclamation by considering not only aspects of the president's decision making, but also events beyond Washington. --from publisher description Although the Emancipation Proclamation is ...
This essay collection “draws together some of the best and brightest Abraham Lincoln scholars around” for a fresh and enlightening view of his life (The Journal of American History).
Ex parte Milligan Reconsidered explores the precedential power of Milligan and the questions it poses about the Civil War, the War on Terror, and executive power"--
McCloskey left the ranch at three o'clock in the morning and he had orders to tell Mr. Martin on the Penasco to come over and stay at Tunstall's ranch to count the cattle with the Deputy Sheriff.14 " Mr. Martin " was Dutch Martin ...
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War presents a remarkably different view of our bloodiest war through an insightful reevaluation of the man who stood at its center. "A truly perceptive study.
In Liberty and Union, David Herbert Donald persuasively examines one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.
442 "a strong paper ": Welles, Diary, 1:323. 443 "his healthful life": CW, 6:260-269. 443 than a "Despot": T.J. Barnett to Samuel L. M. Barlow, June 10, 1863, Barlow MSS, HEH. 443 "the whole land": John W. Forney to AL, June 14, 1863, ...
CONTENTS: Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell “Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell “Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” ...