The Fiery Trial
Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5705484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Levine (0000-0002-0173-3420), Bruce L Levine (0000-0001-6971-8465, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 157-158 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jar173 |
| OpenAlex | W2072476109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
During the last few years a combination of factors, including the national celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, has triggered an avalanche of books about the country's sixteenth president. Eric Foner has now written the best one yet published on the critically important subject identified in its subtitle: Lincoln's views about and actions regarding chattel slavery in the United States. Aimed at a general audience, the book is clearly and accessibly written, shrewd and nuanced in argumentation, and filled with invaluable detail about its subject. Foner mostly abjures explicit contestation with other authors, even in his notes. Even so, he counterposes his emphasis on Lincoln's transformation over time with unnamed writers who treat Lincoln as a fixed quantity, someone whose words and deeds can be explained “primarily in terms of his own character, psychology, legal training, or political philosophy that remained constant throughout his life” (p. xvii). Foner's Lincoln is very much the product of his specific time and place. The book's first chapter, which depicts the political atmosphere of the upper South and lower North where Lincoln grew to adulthood, is an especially rich and valuable contribution. But that region and the country as a whole were extremely dynamic socially and politically, and that dynamism also left its mark on Lincoln's views, which changed significantly over the course of his life
Argumentation theory · Character (mathematics · Dynamism · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Subject (documents · Subtitle · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy
War Stuff
War, religion and anti-slavery ideology
Italian Fascists and the Rewriting of American History
The Art of Avoiding Strategic Miscalculation
Eric Foner. Columbia University, Nova York, 28 de março de 2014
Du Bois's Black Reconstruction and Slave Women's War for Freedom
The contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the antebellum United States
Radical Orthodoxy
Strangely Interested
Varieties of Political Economy in Capitalism With Slavery
Kemetic Principles in African American Public Address
Abraham Lincoln as Great Father
Lincoln and Chiriquí Colonization Revisited
Abraham Lincoln and the Movies
Collective Guilt in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Partisanship and Racial Attitudes in U.S. Civil War Enlistment
Thinking Historically
Reconciliation-oriented leadership
Reform’s Mating Dance
Slavery and Just Compensation in American Constitutionalism
The Citizen Complains”
The Holocaust and New World slavery a comparative history
Directing and Differentiating First-Graders’ Historical Reading, Thinking, and Writing about Abraham Lincoln
O transnacional e o local nas revistas Reader\'s Digest e Seleções
The End of the "Second Slavery" in the Confederate South and the Great Brigandage in Southern Italy
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |