Craig L. Symonds

The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory a Lincoln Forum Book

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The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, the leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their latest studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex than has been previously believed), and the iconography that Lincoln's murder… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Williams, Frank J. / Holzer, Harold (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-8232-3226-0
EAN: 9780823232260
Produktnummer: 5968046
Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 259 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.2 cm x D3.4 cm 616 g
Reihenbandnummer: 34
Gewicht: 616

Über den Autor

Harold Holzer is one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He serves as co-chairman of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and elected co-chair in 2001. President Bush, in turn, awarded Holzer The National Humanities Medal in 2008. In his work as a historian, Holzer has authored, co-authored, and edited 34 books, as well as more than 430 articles for magazines and journals, plus chapters and forewords for more than 25 additional books. He is a frequent guest on television (C-Span, PBS, the History Channel), a lecturer, and has curated five museum exhibitions of original art, including three shows of Lincoln art at the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne. Holzer currently serves as Senior Vice President for External Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Craig L. Symonds is Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy and the author of ten previous books, including Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles That Shaped American History, which won the Theodore and Franklin d. Roosevelt Prize in 2006, The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U. S. Navy, and, this year, Lincoln and his Admirals. He was a contributor to Fordham's The Battle of Hampton Roads.