The Lincoln Assassination : Crime and Punishment Myth and MemoryA Lincoln Forum Book / Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams; ed. by Harold Holzer.
Symonds, Craig L., author.; Current, Richard Nelson, contributor.; Holzer, Harold, contributor.; Holzer, Harold, editor.; Kauffman, Michael W., contributor.; Leonard, Elizabeth D., contributor.; Lowry, Thomas P., contributor.; Sloan, Richard E., contributor.; Steers Jr, Edward, contributor.; Symonds, Craig L., contributor.; Turner, Thomas R., contributor.; Williams, Frank J., author.; Williams, Frank J., contributor.
2014
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The Lincoln Assassination : Crime and Punishment Myth and MemoryA Lincoln Forum Book / Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams; ed. by Harold Holzer.
Author
Symonds, Craig L., author.
ISBN
9780823263950
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (256 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823263950 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.7092
Summary
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, the leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their latest studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex than has been previously believed), and the iconography that Lincoln's murder and deification inspired. Contributors also offer the most up-to-date accounts of the parallel legal event of the summer of 1865-the relentless pursuit, prosecution, and punishment of the conspirators. Everything from graphic tributes to religious sermons, to spontaneous outbursts on the streets of the nation's cities, to emotional mass-mourning at carefully organized funerals, as well as the imposition of military jurisprudence to try the conspirators, is examined in the light of fresh evidence and insightful analysis.The contributors are among the finest scholars who are studying Lincoln's assassination. All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their thoroughness, their originality, and their writing. In addition to the editors, contributors include Thomas R. Turner, Edward Steers Jr., Michael W. Kauffman, Thomas P. Lowry, Richard E. Sloan, Elizabeth D. Leonard, and Richard Nelson Current.
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Added Author
Current, Richard Nelson, contributor.
Holzer, Harold, contributor.
Holzer, Harold, editor.
Kauffman, Michael W., contributor.
Leonard, Elizabeth D., contributor.
Lowry, Thomas P., contributor.
Sloan, Richard E., contributor.
Steers Jr, Edward, contributor.
Symonds, Craig L., contributor.
Turner, Thomas R., contributor.
Williams, Frank J., author.
Williams, Frank J., contributor.
Holzer, Harold, contributor.
Holzer, Harold, editor.
Kauffman, Michael W., contributor.
Leonard, Elizabeth D., contributor.
Lowry, Thomas P., contributor.
Sloan, Richard E., contributor.
Steers Jr, Edward, contributor.
Symonds, Craig L., contributor.
Turner, Thomas R., contributor.
Williams, Frank J., author.
Williams, Frank J., contributor.
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The North's Civil War
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Lincoln's Deathbed in Art and Memory
2. Abraham Lincoln's New York City Funeral
3. Not Everybody Mourned Lincoln's Death
4. Lincoln's Chief Avenger: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt
5. The Lincoln Assassination in Law and Lore
6. Writing History in a Vacuum
7. ''Let the Stain of Innocent Blood Be Removed from the Land''
8. Process versus Truth in the Case of the Lincoln Conspiracy
9. The Martyr and the Myth
List of Contributors
Board of Advisors of the Lincoln Forum
Index
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Lincoln's Deathbed in Art and Memory
2. Abraham Lincoln's New York City Funeral
3. Not Everybody Mourned Lincoln's Death
4. Lincoln's Chief Avenger: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt
5. The Lincoln Assassination in Law and Lore
6. Writing History in a Vacuum
7. ''Let the Stain of Innocent Blood Be Removed from the Land''
8. Process versus Truth in the Case of the Lincoln Conspiracy
9. The Martyr and the Myth
List of Contributors
Board of Advisors of the Lincoln Forum
Index