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Everybody's history : Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the quest to reclaim a president's past /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erekson, Keith A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]
Series:Public history in historical perspective.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Childhood and youth.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Homes and haunts > Indiana > Spencer County.
Southwestern Indiana Historical Society (Evansville, Ind.) > History.
Spencer County (Ind.) > Historiography > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "Lincoln is everybody's subject"
  • The Lincoln Inquiry
  • A crowded field
  • The best witnesses
  • Lincoln's Indiana environment
  • The Klan and a conspiracy
  • In the Lincoln atmosphere
  • Conclusion: "a thousand minds"
  • Appendix A: Members of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society, 1920-1939
  • Appendix B: Papers, publications, and works of the Lincoln Inquiry.