Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Interpreting Lincoln the man and his times / Joseph R. Fornieri
  • A. Lincoln, philosopher : Lincoln's place in nineteenth-century intellectual history / Allen C. Guelzo
  • Tocqueville and Lincoln on religion and democracy in America / Joseph R. Fornieri
  • Schooling in Lincoln's America and Lincoln's extraordinary self-schooling / Myron Marty
  • American religion, 1809-1865 / Mark Noll
  • The middle-class marriage of Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Kenneth J. Winkle
  • Abraham Lincoln : the making of the attorney-in-chief / Frank J. Williams
  • "No such right" : the origins of Lincoln's rejection of the right of property in slaves / James Oakes
  • Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery movement / Richard Striner
  • "As good as it can be made" : Abraham Lincoln's heroic image in nineteenth-century art / Harold Holzer
  • Lincoln and the nature of "a more perfect union" / Herman Belz
  • Appendix: Chronology of Lincoln's America.