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Additional resources for this
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General Resources
The sixth issue of History Now,
December 2008, was also a “Lincoln” issue.
I won’t bother to repeat my discussion of general
resources that appeared three years ago. Instead, I’ll
refer you to the “Suggested Lincoln Sources”
Webpage that appears there:
/historynow/12_2005/ask2.php
And devote myself here, to books and other sources
that either didn’t exist three years ago or that
I somehow overlooked.
First, the books on Lincoln published since then that
seem most likely to be of help:
Burton, Orville Vernon. The Age Of Lincoln.
New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. As much a study of Lincoln’s
time as a biography.
Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: A Life Of Purpose
And Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Published
in England in 2003.
Foner, Eric, ed. Our Lincoln: New Perspectives
On Lincoln And His World. New York: W.W. Norton,
c2008. The collection of essays on which the articles
in this issue are based.
Harris, William C. Lincoln's Rise To The Presidency.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c2007. Emphasizes
Lincoln’s Whig background.
Holzer, Harold, and Sara Vaughn Gabbard, eds. Lincoln
And Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, And The Thirteenth
Amendment. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, c2007. Wide-ranging collection of essays by historians
and lawyers – topics from African-American troops
to details of the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Jayne, Allen. Lincoln And The American Manifesto.
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007. Analysis of Lincoln’s
ideology and its links to Jeffersonian ideals.
McPherson, James M. Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln
As Commander In Chief. New York: Penguin Press,
2008. Not directly related to any of our essays, but
should be on your shelf. McPherson contributed an essay
on the same subject to Our Lincoln (ed. Foner).
Miller, Richard Lawrence. Lincoln And His World.
2 vols. to date. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books,
2003 and 2006. The first installments in a multi-volume
biography. Volume two brings Lincoln to 1842.
Miller, William Lee. President Lincoln: The Duty
Of A Statesman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Here are some additions to your list of useful Internet
materials on Lincoln:
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia now
has a page on Lincoln:
http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/lincoln
The Lincoln Institute, founded by Lewis Lehman, a co-founder
of the Institute that sponsors History Now, has greatly
expanded its Web presence:
http://www.abrahamlincoln.org/
Take a careful look at the sections on “Teacher
Assistance”:
http://abrahamlincoln.org/teachers/index.asp
and “Student Assistance”:
http://abrahamlincoln.org/students/index.asp
“Abraham Lincoln’s Classroom” offers
a changing variety of features along with permanent
online exhibitions like the one on cartoons:
http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/
The bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth will come
next year, of course. The Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
has done considerable work on its Website. The”
Learning about Lincoln” section has lesson plans,
while the “Calendar of Events” will keep
you up-to-date on Lincoln celebrations in your area
through 2009:
http://www.lincolnbicentennial.gov/
Another entrant is the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library Museum
http://www.alplm.org/home.html
Their lesson plans done in conjunction with exhibits
at the Museum, but you can mine some of them for your
own purposes:
http://www.alplm.org/education/teachers.html
Abraham Lincoln and Jacksonian Democracy
The fuller version of Professor Wilentz’s essay
on Lincoln and the Jacksonian tradition appears on p.
135-166 of Our Lincoln.
Professor Wilentz’s work on political leaders
and thought of ninteenth century America, read his two
books:
Andrew Jackson (New York : Times Books, 2005)
The Rise Of American Democracy : Jefferson To Lincoln
(New York : Norton, c2005)
You may also want to read two essays in Abraham
Lincoln and the American Political Tradition (Amherst:
Univ. of Mass., 1986), a collection of studies edited
by John L. Thomas:
Oates, Stephen. “Abraham Lincoln: Republican
in the White House,” p. 98-110,
Wiebe, Robert H. “Lincoln’s Fraternal Democracy,”
p. 11-30.
Internet Resources
To help refresh your students knowledge of Jackson’s
political legacy, I strongly recommend Digital History’s
segment on the subject: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=92
The same Website’s “Impending Crisis”
segment shows way that the political crises of the 1850s
that realigned old Jacksonians and Whigs into Democrats
and Republicans in the election of 1860:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=58
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