The Lincoln Forum: Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg and the Civil War

by Simon, John Y.; Holzer, Harold; Pederson, William D.; Simon, John Y.; Holzer, Harold; Pederson, William D.; Lincoln Forum

• ISBN13: 9781882810376
• ISBN10: 1882810376
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-21
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

A recent conference on Lincoln at Gettysburg resulted in this remarkable book of essays by distinguished Civil War scholars and Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, with an introduction by William C. Davis.

Author Biography

John Y. Simon is a professor of history at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and the editor of the multi-volume Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Harold Holzer is Chief Communications Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He is the author of many books on the Civil War era, including Lincoln on Democracy with Mario Cuomo, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in Art with Mark E. Neely, Jr., and The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete Unexpurgated Text. For Dear Mr. Lincoln Mr. Holzer won the Barondess/Lincoln Award of the Civil War and the Award of Achievment of the Lincoln Group of New York. He has recieved numerous other awards and honorary degrees for his Lincoln scholarship. William D Pederson, a political science professor at LSU-Shreveport, is the co-editor of Abraham Lincoln Contemporary: An American Legacy (Savas 1995).

Table of Contents

Foreword	i	(4)
Frank J. Williams
Introduction	v
William C. Davis
1. The Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address	1	(18)
Sandra Day O'Connor
2. He's Still the Lincoln Nobody Knows	19	(14)
Richard N. Current
3. Lincoln's "Flat Failure?": The Gettysburg Myth Revisited	33	(14)
Harold Holzer
4. "Beckoning Them to the Dreamed of Promise of Freedom": African-Americans and Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation	47	(18)
Edna Greene Medford
5. Lincoln, Grant, and Meade: Vicksburg and Gettysburg in Retrospect	65	(18)
John Y. Simon
6. Abraham Lincoln, Puppet Master: The President and General George Gordon Meade, an Evolving Commander in Chief	83	(18)
Frank J. Williams
Contributors	101	(2)
An Interview With the Chairman of the Lincoln Forum	103	(6)
The Lincoln Forum Board of Advisors	109	(2)
Members of the Lincoln Forum	111	(6)
Index	117