The Lincoln assassination : crime and punishment, myth and memory / edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:North's Civil War.
Corporate Author: Lincoln Forum
Other Authors: Holzer, Harold
Symonds, Craig L.
Williams, Frank J.
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edition:First edition.
Series:North's Civil War.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Assassination.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Death and burial.
Assassins > United States > History > 19th century.
Conspiracies > United States > History > 19th century.
Physical Description:xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Lincoln's deathbed in art and memory : the "rubber room" phenomenon / Harold Holzer and Frank J. Williams
  • Abraham Lincoln's New York City funeral / Richard E. Sloan
  • Not everybody mourned Lincoln's death / Thomas P. Lowry
  • Lincoln's chief avenger : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt / Elizabeth D. Leonard
  • The Lincoln assassination in law and lore / Frank J. Williams
  • Writing history in a vacuum : the Lincoln assassination / Thomas R. Turner
  • "Let the stain of innocent blood be removed from the land" : the military trial of the Lincoln conspirators / Edward Steers, Jr.
  • Process versus truth in the case of the Lincoln conspiracy / Michael W. Kauffman
  • The martyr and the myth : the Lincoln nobody knows / Richard Nelson Current.