Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory written by Barry Schwartz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln has long dominated the pantheon of American presidents. From his lavish memorial in Washington and immortalization on Mount Rushmore, one might assume he was a national hero rather than a controversial president who came close to losing his 1864 bid for reelection. In Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory, Barry Schwartz aims at these contradictions in his study of Lincoln's reputation, from the president's death through the industrial revolution to his apotheosis during the Progressive Era and First World War. Schwartz draws on a wide array of materials—painting and sculpture, popular magazines and school textbooks, newspapers and oratory—to examine the role that Lincoln's memory has played in American life. He explains, for example, how dramatic funeral rites elevated Lincoln's reputation even while funeral eulogists questioned his presidential actions, and how his reputation diminished and grew over the next four decades. Schwartz links transformations of Lincoln's image to changes in the society. Commemorating Lincoln helped Americans to think about their country's development from a rural republic to an industrial democracy and to articulate the way economic and political reform, military power, ethnic and race relations, and nationalism enhanced their conception of themselves as one people. Lincoln's memory assumed a double aspect of "mirror" and "lamp," acting at once as a reflection of the nation's concerns and an illumination of its ideals, and Schwartz offers a fascinating view of these two functions as they were realized in the commemorative symbols of an ever-widening circle of ethnic, religious, political, and regional communities. The first part of a study that will continue through the present, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory is the story of how America has shaped its past selectively and imaginatively around images rooted in a real person whose character and achievements helped shape his country's future.
Download or read book The Memory of Lincoln written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Memory of Abraham Lincoln written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Addresses in Memory of Abraham Lincoln written by Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Minnesota Commandery and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lincoln in American Memory written by Merrill D. Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln's body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its sincere condolences. It was the apotheosis of the martyred President--the beginning of the transformation of a man into a mythic hero. In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society--and into the character of Lincoln himself. Westerners, Easterners, even Southerners were caught up in the idealization of the late President, reshaping his memory and laying claim to his mantle, as his widow, son, memorial builders, and memorabilia collectors fought over his visible legacy. Peterson also looks at the complex responses of blacks to the memory of Lincoln, as they moved from exultation at the end of slavery to the harsh reality of free life amid deep poverty and segregation; at more than one memorial event for the great emancipator, the author notes, blacks were excluded. He makes an engaging examination of the flood of reminiscences and biographies, from Lincoln's old law partner William H. Herndon to Carl Sandburg and beyond. Serious historians were late in coming to the topic; for decades the myth-makers sought to shape the image of the hero President to suit their own agendas. He was made a voice of prohibition, a saloon-keeper, an infidel, a devout Christian, the first Bull Moose Progressive, a military blunderer and (after the First World War) a military genius, a white supremacist (according to D.W. Griffith and other Southern admirers), and a touchstone for the civil rights movement. Through it all, Peterson traces five principal images of Lincoln: the savior of the Union, the great emancipator, man of the people, first American, and self-made man. In identifying these archetypes, he tells us much not only of Lincoln but of our own identity as a people.
Download or read book In Memory of Abraham Lincoln written by Augustine George Hibbard and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Abraham Lincoln in the Post Heroic Era written by Barry Schwartz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1920s, Abraham Lincoln had transcended the lingering controversies of the Civil War to become a secular saint, honored in North and South alike for his steadfast leadership in crisis. Throughout the Great Depression and World War II, Lincoln was invoked countless times as a reminder of America’s strength and wisdom, a commanding ideal against which weary citizens could see their own hardships in perspective. But as Barry Schwartz reveals in Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era, those years represent the apogee of Lincoln’s prestige. The decades following World War II brought radical changes to American culture, changes that led to the diminishing of all heroes—Lincoln not least among them. As Schwartz explains, growing sympathy for the plight of racial minorities, disenchantment with the American state, the lessening of patriotism in the wake of the Vietnam War, and an intensifying celebration of diversity, all contributed to a culture in which neither Lincoln nor any single person could be a heroic symbol for all Americans. Paradoxically, however, the very culture that made Lincoln an object of indifference, questioning, criticism, and even ridicule was a culture of unprecedented beneficence and inclusion, where racial, ethnic, and religious groups treated one another more fairly and justly than ever before. Thus, as the prestige of the Great Emancipator shrank, his legacy of equality continued to flourish. Drawing on a stunning range of sources—including films, cartoons, advertisements, surveys, shrine visitations, public commemorations, and more—Schwartz documents the decline of Lincoln’s public standing, asking throughout whether there is any path back from this post-heroic era. Can a new generation of Americans embrace again their epic past, including great leaders whom they know to be flawed? As the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial approaches, readers will discover here a stirring reminder that Lincoln, as a man, still has much to say to us—about our past, our present, and our possible futures.
Download or read book Poetical Tributes to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln the Tribute of a Century 1809 1909 written by Nathan William MacChesney and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln delivered at the request of both Houses of the Congress of America before them in the House of Representatives at Washington on the 12th of February 1866 written by George Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celebration by the Colored People s Educational Monument Association in Memory of Abraham Lincoln written by National Lincoln Monument Association and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Record of the first national celebration by African Americans in the U.S. Contains letters from well-wishers such as Frederick Douglass, Salmon P. Chase, and Charles Sumner; an oration by William Day, a New York lawyer, on freedom and equality and on slavery in the US; and a long poem on slavery by John Pierpont.
Download or read book Poetical Tributes to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln written by J. N. Plotts and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lincoln Memorial written by John Gilmary Shea and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Discourse in Memory of Our Late President Abraham Lincoln written by Joshua Thomas Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Memorial of Abraham Lincoln Late President of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorial Record of the Nation s Tribute to Abraham Lincoln written by Benjamin Franklin Morris and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
