A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life and Legacy
This biography of Abraham Lincoln, told through the stories of the women in his life and work, is also the story of the author's professional and personal relationship with Lincoln as a scholar and editor of his papers and as a woman who has drawn inspiration and solace from his life and his legacy.
Alan Swanson discusses Swedish-American literature in terms of its relevance to its intended audience and the audience of today. He focuses on the function of literature generally and the function of Swedish-American literature in particular before presenting the work of Arthur Landfors (the best-known Swedish-American poet).
In Literacy as Involvement, Deborah Brandt examines the cultural and social roots of the acts of reading and writing. The book asks, for example, whether literacy is a natural growth of or a radical shift from orality. It questions the contrary views that literacy is either the learning of the conventions of language or is better understood as ......
Winner, Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize, 2018 Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2018 Abraham Lincoln was the first president to make storytelling, jokes, and laughter tools of the office, and his natural sense of humor has become legendary. Lincoln's Sense of Humor registers the variety, complexity of purpose, and ......
Thomas tells the story of the village where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. His three-part examination of the village often referred to as Lincoln's "Alma Mater" features the founding and early history of New Salem, Lincoln's impact on the village and its effect on him, and the story of the Lincoln legend and the reconstruction of the ......
The traditional story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination is littered with errors, some of which are accidental while others are willful. Too often, authors describe Lincoln's assassination rather than explain it. The current work is an attempt to explain the underlying causes of Lincoln's assassination and expose those who aided and abetted John ......
In this persuasive work of intellectual history, Lucas E. Morel argues that the most important influence on Abraham Lincolns political thought and practice was what he learned from the leading figures of and documents from the birth of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln's faith has commanded more broad-based attention than that of any other American president. Although he never joined a denomination, Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Episcopalians, Disciples of Christ, Spiritualists, Jews, and even atheists claim the sixteenth president as one of their own. In this concise volume, Ferenc Morton ......
When a young black soldier at home on leave was found hanged in a Cairo, Illinois, police station in 1967, the black and white populations of this southern Illinois river city clashed violently, and the fury, once ignited, raged on for seven years. Jan Peterson Roddy has brought together the photographs of Preston Ewing Jr. with a wealth of ......
