Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Charles M. Hubbard
  • Abraham Lincoln : lawyer, leader, President / Daniel W. Stowell
  • Lincoln and citizenship / Mark E. Steiner
  • Lincoln's divided house : the Constitution and the Union / Charles M. Hubbard
  • Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime / Frank J. Williams
  • "I claim not to have controlled events" : Lincoln leadership, and the Emanicipation struggle / Edna Greene Medford
  • The Quality of mercy : Abraham Lincoln and the presidential power to pardon / Ron Soodalter
  • Lincoln and the law of war / Burrus M. Carnaham
  • Lincoln an the potter Congressional Committee concerning the loyalty of government employees / Natalie Sweet
  • Equality, statesmanship, and the Lincoln image in progressive presidential rhetoric / Jason R. Jividen.