Allen C Guelzo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen C Guelzo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen C |
| FAMILY NAME | Guelzo |
| SIGNATURE | GUELZO A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gettysburg College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Charles Ives's Civil War
Surely, one of the most peculiar letters ever written by an American composer came from the hand of Charles Ives in July 1913, on the letterhead of the Eagle Hotel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Fifty years before, the Eagle Hotel had been the temporary headquarters of Major-General John Buford, whose two brigades of Union cavalry opened the fighting on what became the greatest of all battles of the American Civil War. The peculiarity of the letter…
Lincoln's Statesmanship in Navigating a Divided Nation
Redeeming the Great Emancipator
Abraham Lincoln projects a larger-than-life image across American history owing to his role as the Great Emancipator. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln’s identity is the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. The award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo offers a vigorous defense of America’s sixteenth president.
Lincoln, Cobden, and Bright: The Braid of Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century’s Transatlantic World
Abraham Lincoln is usually described as a purely American, almost provincial, figure. But his ideas and wartime policies should also be understood in a transatlantic context, since Lincoln’s ideas and policies conform so remarkably to the patterns of classical liberal ideas in Europe in the nineteenth century, and especially to the Manchester School of Richard Cobden and John Bright. In contrast to the failures and disappointments of Continental …
Robert E. May. Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America
Within studies of the American Civil War, no aspect has taken on a more intriguing life than its transnational turn. Not that the Civil War has lacked for students of its diplomatic entanglements, especially with Great Britain and France. But generally, diplomatic history has been where concern for the Civil War's global aspect has both begun and ended. This trend continues, despite the powerful ideological links between the free labor ideology o…
Writing the Gettysburg Address
Fateful lightning: A new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial
In the entertainment industry, a remix is a way of relayering tracks of recorded sound to create a new audio package for a song or soundtrack. Given the postmodern enamorment with playfulness and artifice, it was probably inevitable that remix would be appropriated as a clever way of saying reinterpretation with a sly wink and a hermeneutic nod. Nor does the editor Thomas J. Brown pull shy of flaunting Remixing the Civil War as a “candid celebrat…
The Not-So-Grand Review: Abraham Lincoln in the Journal of American History
Journal Article The Not-So-Grand Review: Abraham Lincoln in the Journal of American History Get access Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 2, September 2009, Pages 400–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/96.2.400 Published: 01 September 2009
Lincoln, Race and Slavery: A Biographical Overview
Locating Lincoln at a fixed place along the line of nineteenth-century thinking on race and slavery is not easy. Although he said much about slavery, he said little about race. Lincoln's statements about slavery leave little reason to doubt his assertion that “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel” (1). Slavery was “a monstrous injustice” and “the sum of all vi…
Houses Divided: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Political Landscape of 1858
The Lincoln-Douglas debates are often portrayed as a tale of delayed gratification: Abraham Lincoln lost his bid for the U.S. Senate in 1858, only to find the notoriety garnered from the debates hurling him toward election as the sixteenth president in 1860. In this telling, the ferocity and dynamics of the 1858 state election become subordinate to the national contest of 1860, while the connections between local and national politics in the ante…
The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Social, Political, Iconographic
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
Lincoln's Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Religious Politics and Political Religion Chapter 3 The Political Utility of Religion Chapter 4 The Political Accommodation of Religion Chapter 5 The Political Vices of Religion: An Interpretation of the Temperance Address Chapter 6 The Political Limits of Reason and Religion: An Interpretation of the Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
An enlightening "intellectual biography" of Lincoln, Allen Guelzo's peerless account of America's most celebrated president explores the role of ideas in Lincoln's life, treating him as a serious thinker deeply involved in the nineteenth-century debates over politics, religion, and culture.Written with passion and dramatic impact, Guelzo's masterful study offers a revealing new perspective on a man whose life was in many ways a paradox
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
Journal Article Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. By Allen C. Guelzo. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. xii, 516 pp. $29.00, ISBN 0-8028-3872-3.) Get access Robert Cook Robert Cook Sheffield University, Sheffield, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 650–651, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675151 Published: 01 September 2001
Lincoln before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
Journal Article Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. By Douglas L. Wilson. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xi, 383 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-40788-X.) Get access Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567470 Published: 01 June 1999
An Heir or a Rebel? Charles Grandison Finney and the New England Theology
Examines the contributions of Charles Grandison Finney to mid-nineteenth century theology. Finney's rejection of Calvinism; Critiques on Finney's theology by interpreters including William McLoughlin; Reference to the book `Memoirs'; Finney's perverse admiration of Jonathan Edwards; Development of the doctrine of perfection
For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians
Journal Article For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians. By Allen C. Guelzo. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. xii, 404 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-271-01002-9. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-271-01003-7.) Get access Richard Rankin Richard Rankin Queens College, Charlotte, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
From Calvinist Metaphysics to Republican Theory: Jonathan Edwards and James Dana on Freedom of the will
The Reverend Mr. James Dana, the pastor of the First Church in Wallingford, Connecticut, had never before attempted to pick a quarrel with his old friend and ally, Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale College. But in the winter of 1782 what was happening at Yale passed all the bounds of propriety and friendship. "I have understood that Mr. Edwards's book on fatality was laid aside some years since at your university," Dana wrote (not stopping to ad…
The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America
Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the Civil War. He clarifies theological traditions and doctrinal arguments and includes substantive discussions of institutional development and of the orde…
Gifts and Works: The Post-Conversion Paradigm and Spiritual Controversy in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
Calvinist Freedom Fighters
Writing the Gettysburg Address
The Not-So-Grand Review: Abraham Lincoln in the Journal of American History
Journal Article The Not-So-Grand Review: Abraham Lincoln in the Journal of American History Get access Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 2, September 2009, Pages 400–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/96.2.400 Published: 01 September 2009
An Heir or a Rebel? Charles Grandison Finney and the New England Theology
Examines the contributions of Charles Grandison Finney to mid-nineteenth century theology. Finney's rejection of Calvinism; Critiques on Finney's theology by interpreters including William McLoughlin; Reference to the book `Memoirs'; Finney's perverse admiration of Jonathan Edwards; Development of the doctrine of perfection
From Calvinist Metaphysics to Republican Theory: Jonathan Edwards and James Dana on Freedom of the will
The Reverend Mr. James Dana, the pastor of the First Church in Wallingford, Connecticut, had never before attempted to pick a quarrel with his old friend and ally, Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale College. But in the winter of 1782 what was happening at Yale passed all the bounds of propriety and friendship. "I have understood that Mr. Edwards's book on fatality was laid aside some years since at your university," Dana wrote (not stopping to ad…
Calvinist Freedom Fighters
Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate
Jonathan Edwards towered over his contemporaries--a man over six feet tall and a figure of theological stature--but the reasons for his power have been a matter of dispute. Edwards on the Will offers a persuasive explanation. In 1753, after seven years of personal trials, which included dismissal from his Northampton church, Edwards submitted a treatise, Freedom of the Will, to Boston publishers. Its impact on Puritan society was profound. He had…
Gifts and Works: The Post-Conversion Paradigm and Spiritual Controversy in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians
Journal Article For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians. By Allen C. Guelzo. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. xii, 404 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-271-01002-9. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-271-01003-7.) Get access Richard Rankin Richard Rankin Queens College, Charlotte, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
From Calvinist Metaphysics to Republican Theory: Jonathan Edwards and James Dana on Freedom of the will
The Reverend Mr. James Dana, the pastor of the First Church in Wallingford, Connecticut, had never before attempted to pick a quarrel with his old friend and ally, Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale College. But in the winter of 1782 what was happening at Yale passed all the bounds of propriety and friendship. "I have understood that Mr. Edwards's book on fatality was laid aside some years since at your university," Dana wrote (not stopping to ad…
The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America
Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the Civil War. He clarifies theological traditions and doctrinal arguments and includes substantive discussions of institutional development and of the orde…
An Heir or a Rebel? Charles Grandison Finney and the New England Theology
Examines the contributions of Charles Grandison Finney to mid-nineteenth century theology. Finney's rejection of Calvinism; Critiques on Finney's theology by interpreters including William McLoughlin; Reference to the book `Memoirs'; Finney's perverse admiration of Jonathan Edwards; Development of the doctrine of perfection
Lincoln before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
Journal Article Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. By Douglas L. Wilson. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xi, 383 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-40788-X.) Get access Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567470 Published: 01 June 1999
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
An enlightening "intellectual biography" of Lincoln, Allen Guelzo's peerless account of America's most celebrated president explores the role of ideas in Lincoln's life, treating him as a serious thinker deeply involved in the nineteenth-century debates over politics, religion, and culture.Written with passion and dramatic impact, Guelzo's masterful study offers a revealing new perspective on a man whose life was in many ways a paradox
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
Journal Article Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. By Allen C. Guelzo. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. xii, 516 pp. $29.00, ISBN 0-8028-3872-3.) Get access Robert Cook Robert Cook Sheffield University, Sheffield, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 650–651, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675151 Published: 01 September 2001
Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Religious Politics and Political Religion Chapter 3 The Political Utility of Religion Chapter 4 The Political Accommodation of Religion Chapter 5 The Political Vices of Religion: An Interpretation of the Temperance Address Chapter 6 The Political Limits of Reason and Religion: An Interpretation of the Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln's Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
Lincoln, Race and Slavery: A Biographical Overview
Locating Lincoln at a fixed place along the line of nineteenth-century thinking on race and slavery is not easy. Although he said much about slavery, he said little about race. Lincoln's statements about slavery leave little reason to doubt his assertion that “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel” (1). Slavery was “a monstrous injustice” and “the sum of all vi…
Houses Divided: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Political Landscape of 1858
The Lincoln-Douglas debates are often portrayed as a tale of delayed gratification: Abraham Lincoln lost his bid for the U.S. Senate in 1858, only to find the notoriety garnered from the debates hurling him toward election as the sixteenth president in 1860. In this telling, the ferocity and dynamics of the 1858 state election become subordinate to the national contest of 1860, while the connections between local and national politics in the ante…
The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Social, Political, Iconographic
The Not-So-Grand Review: Abraham Lincoln in the Journal of American History
Journal Article The Not-So-Grand Review: Abraham Lincoln in the Journal of American History Get access Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 2, September 2009, Pages 400–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/96.2.400 Published: 01 September 2009
Fateful lightning: A new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial
In the entertainment industry, a remix is a way of relayering tracks of recorded sound to create a new audio package for a song or soundtrack. Given the postmodern enamorment with playfulness and artifice, it was probably inevitable that remix would be appropriated as a clever way of saying reinterpretation with a sly wink and a hermeneutic nod. Nor does the editor Thomas J. Brown pull shy of flaunting Remixing the Civil War as a “candid celebrat…
Writing the Gettysburg Address
Lincoln, Cobden, and Bright: The Braid of Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century’s Transatlantic World
Abraham Lincoln is usually described as a purely American, almost provincial, figure. But his ideas and wartime policies should also be understood in a transatlantic context, since Lincoln’s ideas and policies conform so remarkably to the patterns of classical liberal ideas in Europe in the nineteenth century, and especially to the Manchester School of Richard Cobden and John Bright. In contrast to the failures and disappointments of Continental …
Robert E. May. Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America
Within studies of the American Civil War, no aspect has taken on a more intriguing life than its transnational turn. Not that the Civil War has lacked for students of its diplomatic entanglements, especially with Great Britain and France. But generally, diplomatic history has been where concern for the Civil War's global aspect has both begun and ended. This trend continues, despite the powerful ideological links between the free labor ideology o…
Redeeming the Great Emancipator
Abraham Lincoln projects a larger-than-life image across American history owing to his role as the Great Emancipator. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln’s identity is the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. The award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo offers a vigorous defense of America’s sixteenth president.
Lincoln's Statesmanship in Navigating a Divided Nation
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