Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson

by Cooper, John Milton, Jr.; Knock, Thomas J.

• ISBN13: 9780813930046
• ISBN10: 0813930049
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

"This is a superb collection of well-written essays by a group of distinguished scholars, edited by two of the country's most eminent political historians. In considering the subject of race in U.S. history by focusing on the ideas, attitudes, and actions of three leading presidents, the collection offers a stimulating, illuminating, and altogether fascinating exploration of this most intractable of American problems." Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jonathan Rosenberg, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, author of How Far the Promised Land? World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson and St. George Tucker: The Makings of Revolutionary Slaveholders	p. 15
Domesticating the Captive Nation: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Slavery	p. 34
Perfecting Slavery: Rational Plantation Management at Monticello	p. 61
Lincoln
Personal Encounters: Abraham Lincoln and African Americans	p. 89
Lincoln and Colonization	p. 107
The Theft of Lincoln in Scholarship, Politics, and Public Memory	p. 124
Wilson
American Sphinx: Woodrow Wilson and Race	p. 145
W.E.B. Du Bois, Woodrow Wilson, and the Dilemma of Democracy and Race in the Progressive Era	p. 163
"People of Many Races": The World beyond Europe in the Wilsonian Imagination	p. 184
List of Contributors	p. 209
Index	p. 211
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