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With Lincoln in the White House letters, memoranda, and other writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865 / by Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901

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Lincoln's White House secretary the adventurous life of William O. Stoddard / by Stoddard, William Osborn, 1835-1925

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The Louisiana scalawags politics, race, and terrorism during the Civil War and Reconstruction / by Wetta, Frank Joseph, 1942-

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"What shall we do with the Negro?" Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America / by Escott, Paul D., 1947-

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Rebels on the border Civil War, emancipation, and the reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri / by Astor, Aaron, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Building the western middle ground -- In defense of slavery and union -- Rebels in black and white -- Holding Kentucky and Missouri for the union -- Dual rebellion and the death of conservative unionism -- Black soldiers and regulator violence -- The perils and promise of self-reconstruction -- Remaking the white man's democracy -- Black suffrage and the new political order.…”
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Declarations of dependence the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 / by Downs, Gregory P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?.…”
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Moments of despair suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina / by Silkenat, David

Table of Contents: “…By his own hand : suicide -- Most horrible of crimes : suicide in the old south -- The self-slaying epidemic : suicide after the Civil War -- The legacy of the war we suppose : suicide in medical and social thought -- To loosen the bands of society : divorce -- The country is also a party : antebellum divorce in black and white -- Connubial Bliss until he entered the army by conscription : civil war and divorce -- The divorce mill runs over time : marital breakdown and reform in the new south -- Enslaved by debt : the culture of credit and debt -- Sacredness of obligations : debt in antebellum North Carolina -- Out of debt before I die : the credit crisis of the Civil War -- What the landlord and the storeman choose to make it : general stores, pawnshops, and boardinghouses in the new south -- Nothing less than a question of slavery or freedom : populism and the crisis of debt in the new south.…”
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Lincoln and freedom slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment /

Table of Contents: “…Marszalek -- Lincoln and the rhetoric of freedom / Ronald C. White Jr. -- Ballots over bullets : freedom and the 1864 election / David E. …”
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Lincoln revisited new insights from the Lincoln Forum /

Table of Contents: “…Symonds -- After emancipation : Abraham Lincoln's black dream / Michael Vorenberg -- The second inaugural address : the spoken words / Ronald C. White, Jr. -- Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties : then and now / Frank J. …”
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