The war worth fighting : Abraham Lincoln's presidency and Civil War America /
edited by Stephen D. Engle.
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
- The Alan B. Larkin Series on the American Presidency .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Part I. Lincoln's war and the people's contest -- The passage of Lincoln's republic: Providence in progress / The president as pedagogue: teaching citizenship in time of war / Lincoln as Commander in Chief: forays into generalship / Part II. The war beyond the White House -- The political culture of the North: party politics of nation and state / Legalities in wartime: the myth of the writ of habeas corpus / Emancipation in Washington, D.C.: battleground for freedom and reconstruction / Part III. The visible hand of leadership at home and abroad -- Lincoln as leader: the visible hand of the presidency / Lincoln as chief diplomat in war: perception and reality / War-time reconstruction: constructing the union's new cornerstone / Epilogue. Lincoln's presidential legacy: the last best hope / Stephen D. Engle -- Orville Vernon Burton -- J. Matthew Gallman -- Mark Grimsley -- Jennifer L. Weber -- Mark E. Neely Jr -- Kate Masur -- Richard J. Carwardine -- Howard Jones -- Brooks D. Simpson -- Michael Burlingame.
This volume collects the papers of the 7th annual Larkin Symposium, adding additional essays to flesh out the collection, that explore the context of the Abraham Lincoln presidency, the implications of the Civil War and the new republic that emerged out of the conflict.