Contents

• Lincoln’s political faith in the Peoria address / Joseph R. Fornieri
• Lincoln’s political religion and religious politics / Lucas E. Morel
• Lincoln, Douglas, and popular sovereignty : the Mormon dimension / John Y. Simon
• The campaign of 1860 : Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, and the campaign of words and images / Harold Holzer
• "I see the president" : Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home / Matthew Pinsker
• Varieties of religious experience : Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Jean Baker
• The poet and the president : Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman / Daniel Mark Epstein
• 1862
• a year of decision for President Lincoln and General Halleck / John F. Marszalek
• "I felt it to be my duty to refuse" : the president and the slave trader / William Lee Miller
• Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant / Jean Edward Smith
• Motivating men : Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, and Kennedy / Geoffrey Perret
• Lincoln and his admirals / Craig L. Symonds
• After emancipation : Abraham Lincoln’s black dream / Michael Vorenberg
• The second inaugural address : the spoken words / Ronald C. White, Jr.
• Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties : then and now / Frank J. Williams
• After Lincoln’s reelection : foreign complications / William C. Harris
• Henry Adams on Lincoln / Garry Wills
• Lincoln’s assassination and John Wilkes Booth’s Confederate connection / Edward Steers, Jr