Author: Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.)Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599673042
Category : Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Dr. John K. Lattimer Collection of Lincolniana
Author: Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.)Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599673042
Category : Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Lincolniana
Author: Library of William C. Bolivar, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...
Author: The Collector
Author: Lincoln in American Memory
Author: Merrill D. PetersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199880026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln's body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its sincere condolences. It was the apotheosis of the martyred President--the beginning of the transformation of a man into a mythic hero. In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society--and into the character of Lincoln himself. Westerners, Easterners, even Southerners were caught up in the idealization of the late President, reshaping his memory and laying claim to his mantle, as his widow, son, memorial builders, and memorabilia collectors fought over his visible legacy. Peterson also looks at the complex responses of blacks to the memory of Lincoln, as they moved from exultation at the end of slavery to the harsh reality of free life amid deep poverty and segregation; at more than one memorial event for the great emancipator, the author notes, blacks were excluded. He makes an engaging examination of the flood of reminiscences and biographies, from Lincoln's old law partner William H. Herndon to Carl Sandburg and beyond. Serious historians were late in coming to the topic; for decades the myth-makers sought to shape the image of the hero President to suit their own agendas. He was made a voice of prohibition, a saloon-keeper, an infidel, a devout Christian, the first Bull Moose Progressive, a military blunderer and (after the First World War) a military genius, a white supremacist (according to D.W. Griffith and other Southern admirers), and a touchstone for the civil rights movement. Through it all, Peterson traces five principal images of Lincoln: the savior of the Union, the great emancipator, man of the people, first American, and self-made man. In identifying these archetypes, he tells us much not only of Lincoln but of our own identity as a people.
Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1908
Author: Papers in Illinois History and Transactions for the Year
Author: Illinois State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Illinois State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year ...
Author: Occasional Publications (Illinois State Historical Society)
Author: Illinois State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description