Lincoln's America, 1809-1865

Joseph R. Fornieri, Sara Vaughn Gabbard

In this collection of new and original essays, edited by Joseph R. Fornieri and Sarah Vaughn Gabbard, ten eminent historians examine the society that influenced the life, character, and leadership of the man who would become the Great Emancipator. Among the topics explored in Lincoln's America are religion, education, middle-class family life, the anti-slavery movement, politics, and law. Also covered are the transition of American intellectual and philosophical thought from the Enlightenment to Romanticism and the influence of this evolution on Lincoln's own ideas. By examining aspects of Lincoln's life -- his personal piety in comparison with the beliefs of his contemporaries, his success in self-schooling when frontier youths had limited opportunities for a formal education, his marriage and home life in Springfield, and his legal career -- in light of broader cultural contexts,...

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