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Author
Language
English
Description
"A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Foner gives us a life of Lincoln as it intertwined with slavery, the defining issue of the time and the tragic hallmark of American history. The author demonstrates how Lincoln navigated a dynamic political landscape deftly, moving in measured steps, often on a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party, and that Lincoln's greatness lay in his capacity for moral and political growth....
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores how the differing experiences and viewpoints of two Presidents shaped slavery and race relations in America for more than a century.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxii, 251 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how the Great Emancipator used the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in our country's most divisive era"--
Jonathan White illuminates why Lincolns unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
x, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Abraham Lincoln and his family joined the migration over the Ohio River, but it was Kentucky-the state of his birth-that shaped his personality and continued to affect his life. His wife was from the commonwealth, as were each of the other women with whom he had romantic relationships. Henry Clay was his political idol; Joshua Speed of Farmington, near Louisville, was his lifelong best friend; and all three of his law partners were Kentuckians....
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address—an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln's suitability for the presidency and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition...
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + teacher and facilitator guides on CD
Language
English
Description
Portrays the life of Abraham Lincoln from his early days to his assassination and its aftermath using materials from the Indiana Historical Society's Lincoln collections along with contemporary footage of sites in Indiana and Illinois and interviews with Lincoln experts. The DVD also includes enhancement activities for use in the classroom that examine particular issues raised in the video in greater depth.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
viii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Assesses President Lincoln's leadership in the one hundred days preceding the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, a period characterized by mounting deaths on the battlefield and heated national debates.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xii, 416 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This first history of Lincoln's border-state policies in more than eighty years offers a fresh and comprehensive perspective on how he negotiated, sometimes falteringly, the complex politics attached to such divisive issues as emancipation and suspension of habeas corpus. It provides new insights into the president's leadership and the daunting problems he faced, as well as a window into federal-state relations, military-civil affairs, and the ongoing...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass set the groundwork in three historic meetings to abolish slavery in the United States, despite their differing perspectives on the war and the institution of slavery.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free slaves - despite his personal distaste for slavery, he...