Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. JohannsenRobert W. Johannsen, professor emeritus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one of the leading Jacksonian- and Civil War-era historians of his generation. Works such as his Stephen A. Douglas and To the Halls of the Montezumas have cemented his place in period scholarship. He also has mentored literally dozens of professional historians. In his honor, eleven of his students have gathered to contribute new essays on the period's history. On display here are cutting-edge examinations of thought and culture in the late Jacksonian era, new considerations of Manifest Destiny, and fascinating interpretations of the lives of the two political giants of the period, Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. Democratic Party politics and Civil War-era religion also come into play. |
Contents
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John L OSullivan and the Tragedy of Radical Jacksonian Thought | 53 |
The Boundless Empire for American Science 184856 | 72 |
The Strange Fate of Popular Sovereignty | 96 |
The Demise of Democratic Party Unity | 129 |
Abraham Lincoln Stephen A Douglas the Model Republic and the Right of Revolution 184861 | 154 |
Jackson Men in the Party of Lincoln | 178 |
Copperhead Christian Reactions to the President and the War | 199 |
Perceptions of a Civil War Organizations Benevolent Program | 220 |
Isaac Tichenors Civil War and the Roles of Confederate Ministers | 240 |
Burnside Revisited | 265 |
Zachariah Chandlers Role in the Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1864 | 290 |
Writings of Robert W Johannsen | 315 |
Notes on Contributors | 335 |
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