The Lincoln Forum: Rediscovering Abraham Lincoln

by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer

Overview

Each year, hundreds of scholars and other enthusiasts mark the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address by gathering together in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for the Lincoln Forum. There, leading historians reinterpret and rediscover the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Now the best recent Lincoln Forum essays are available in one volume, offering important reexaminations of Lincoln as military leader, communicator, family man, and icon. The contributors include James M. McPherson, Craig L. Symonds, John F. Marszalek, Jean H. Baker, Hans L. Trefousse, J. Tracy Power, John C. Waugh, Gerald Prokopowicz, and Frank J. Williams.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823222155
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Series:	The North's Civil War
Edition description:	2
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Y. Simon is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University.

Harold Holzer, Senior Vice President for External Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is one of the nation's leading authorities on Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He served as co-chairman of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and has written, co-written, or edited 35 books.

Table of Contents

	Foreword and Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xiii
1.	Lincoln as Commander in Chief	1
2.	Commander in Chief Lincoln and General Grant	16
3.	"You Must Either Attack Richmond or Give Up the Job and Come to the Defence of Washington": Abraham Lincoln and the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign	34
4.	Men, Machines, and Old Abe: Lincoln and the Civil War Navy	48
5.	Abraham Lincoln and William T. Sherman: The Cause Was Union	65
6.	"If I Had Gone Up There, I Could Have Whipped Them Myself": Lincoln's Military Fantasies	77
7.	"In for Four Years More": The Army of Northern Virginia and the United States Presidential Election of 1864	93
8.	"A Matter of Profound Wonder": The Women in Lincoln's Life	112
9.	Mary Lincoln: Symbol, Historical Target, and Human Being	122
10.	Abraham Lincoln's Body and Body Politic: Two Puzzles in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political Language and Culture	135
11.	The New Gettysburg Address: A Study in Illusion	160
12.	Abraham Lincoln's Reputation during His Administration	187
13.	The Lincoln Grail: The Great Collectors and Their Great Collections	211
	Contributors	231
	The Lincoln Forum	235
	Executive Committee	235
	Board of Advisors	235
	Lifetime Members	236
	Members	238
	Index	245
	Illustrations