A new birth of freedom : Abraham Lincoln and the coming of the Civil War
This is the sequel to "Crisis of the House Divided", and continues the examination of the political thought of Abraham Lincoln and the themes of self-government, equality, and statesmanship. This volume focuses on Lincoln's refutation of the arguments of John C. Calhoun, a Confederacy sympathiser.
eBook, English, c2000
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., c2000
1 online resource (xiv, 549 p.)
9781538114339, 153811433X
1036755530
Print version:
The election of 1800 and the election of 1860
The Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and historians
The divided American mind on the eve of conflict: James Buchanan, Jefferson Davis, and Alexander Stephens survey the crisis
The mind of Lincoln's Inaugural and the argument and action of the debate that shaped it, I
The mind of Lincoln's Inaugural and the argument and action of the debate that shaped it, II
July 4, 1861: Lincoln tells why the Union must be preserved
Slavery, succession, and state rights: the political teaching of John C. Calhoun
Appendix: "The dividing line between Federal and local authority: popular sovereignty in the territories": a commentary
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