Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252089057 ISBN 13 : 9780252089053

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2025

Synopsis

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, Barbara Jeanne Fields, Barack Obama, and dozens of others. The selections move from speeches to letters to book excerpts, mapping the changing contours of the bond--emotional and intellectual--between Lincoln and Black Americans over the span of one hundred and fifty years. A comprehensive and valuable reader, Knowing Him by Heart examines Lincoln’s still-evolving place in Black American thought.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Carwardine is a professor emeritus at Oxford University, where he served as Rhodes Professor of American History from 2002 to 2009 and as president of Corpus Christi College from 2010 to 2016. His analytical biography Lincoln won the Lincoln Prize in 2004 and was subsequently published in the United States as Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. His other work includes Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790-1865; Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America; and (with Jay Sexton) The Global Lincoln.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252089057
• ISBN 13: 9780252089053
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Éditeur: Hord Fred Lee, Norman Matthew D.
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