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

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.

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To fully understand and appreciate Abraham Lincoln's legacy, it is important to examine the society that influenced the life, character, and leadership of the man who would become the Great Emancipator. Editors Joseph R. Fornieri and Sara Vaughn Gabbard have done just that in Lincoln's America: 1809-1865, a collection of new and original essays by ten eminent historians that place Lincoln within his nineteenth-century cultural context. Among the topics explored in Lincoln's America are religion, education, middle-class family life, the antislavery movement, po.

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