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Crime and punishment on the Civil War homefront

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13451
Author
Hampel, Robert L.
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.106
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Responsibility
by Robert Hampel and Charles W. Ormsby, Jr.
Author
Hampel, Robert L.
Physical Description
223-244.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.106 (1982)
This record provides a link to this resource on the publisher's official online repository.
Subjects
Punishment - United States
Crime - United States
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Additional Author
Ormsby, Charles W.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.106
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Lincoln : a life of purpose and power

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19216
Author
Carwardine, Richard.
Edition
1st American ed.
Date of Publication
2006.
Call Number
923.173 L736c
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Responsibility
Richard Carwardine.
ISBN
1400044561
9781400044566
Author
Carwardine, Richard.
Edition
1st American ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf,
Date of Publication
2006.
Physical Description
xv, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Originally published: London : Pearson Education, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-360) and index.
Contents
1. Inner power : Lincoln's ambition and political vision, 1809-54 -- Ambition -- Political vision -- Moral crisis : 1854 -- The religious roots of moral power -- 2. The power of opinion : Lincoln : the Illinois public and the new political order, 1854-58 -- Lincoln, democratic politics and public opinion -- Illinois public opinion and the anti-Nebraska fusion movement -- The senatorial campaign of 1858 -- 3. The power of party : winning the presidency, 1858-60 -- Presidential ambition : Lincoln, his party and the road to the Decatur convention -- The Republican presidential nomination -- The 1860 presidential campaign : the power of a righteous party -- 4. Confronting the limits of power : from president-elect to war president, 1860-61 -- In the antechamber to power : holding the party line -- From Springfield to Sumter : building a united front -- Strategies for 'a people's war' -- 'What shall I do? The people are impatient ... ' -- 5. The purposes of power : evolving objectives, 1861-65 -- Reading the public -- 'Every indispensable means' : toward the Emancipation Proclamation -- Faith and purposes -- Faithfulness of purpose : emancipation, reconstruction and black citizenship -- 6. The instruments of power : coercion and voluntary mobilization, 1861-65 -- Coercion, repression and executive power -- Popular mobilization : the 'power of the right word' and the agency of party -- Popular mobilization : churches and philanthropic organizations -- The Union army as a moral force -- The election of 1864 : 'the second birth of our nation' -- 7. Conclusion : power in death -- Chronology of Lincoln's life.
Summary
A portrait of America's sixteenth president follows Lincoln's life and career during his rise to political power and his years in the White House, arguing that he looked beyond the political system to find support in his struggle to end slavery.
Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.
Presidents - United States - Biography.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 L736c
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