Table of Contents:
  • Abraham Lincoln as revolutionary / Otto H. Olsen
  • Lincoln and Van Buren in the steps of the fathers / Major L. Wilson
  • On the verge of greatness: psychological reflections on Lincoln at the Lyceum / Charles B. Strozier
  • Abraham Lincoln, Ann Rutledge, and the evidence of Herndon's informants / Douglas L. Wilson
  • Abraham Lincoln and "That fatal First of January" / Douglas L. Wilson
  • Lincoln and the Mexican War: an argument by analogy / Mark E. Neely Jr
  • Lincoln as military strategist / Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones
  • Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln as war presidents: nothing succeeds like success / Ludwell H. Johnson
  • To suppress or not to suppress: Abraham Lincoln and the Chicago Times / Craig D. Tenney
  • "A Catholic family newspaper" views the Lincoln administration: John Mullaly's Copperhead weekly / Joseph George Jr
  • Abraham Lincoln on labor and capital / James A. Stevenson
  • Lincoln's Calvinist transformation: emancipation and war / Nicholas Parrillo
  • Only his stepchildren: Lincoln and the Negro / Don. E. Fehrenbacher
  • Defending emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling letter / Allen C. Guelzo
  • The historian as gamesman: Otto Eisenschiml, 1880-1963 / William Hanchett.