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Lincoln in the JAH REVIEWS LIST Lincoln in the JAH REVIEWS LIST These review list entries include reviews with the name Lincoln in their titles that were published in the Journal of American History or Mississippi Valley Historical Review from June 2009 through June 1914; they can be accessed online via either historycooperative.org or jstor.org; if you subscribe to the OAH or you are affiliated with a subscribing institution, use CLICK+CONTROL to follow hyperlinks and view reviews. Journal of American History Book, Movie, Exhibition, Web Site Reviews: These June 2009–June 1999 JAH listings were obtained from the historycooperative.org web site. Volume Year 96 June 2009 The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (Basic, 2008), by Kate Clifford Larson; reviewed by Judith Ann Giesberg June 2009, Vol. 96, No. 1, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/96.1/br_62.html Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point (Stackpole, 2008), by Lewis E. Lehrman; reviewed by Daniel W. Stowell June 2009, Vol. 96, No. 1, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/96.1/br_51.html Lincoln’s Darkest Year: The War in 1862 (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), by William Marvel; reviewed by John Cimprich June 2009, Vol. 96, No. 1, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/96.1/br_57.html Lincoln’s Lost Legacy: The Republican Party and the African American Vote, 1928–1952 (University Press of Florida, 2008), by Simon Topping; reviewed by Jennifer E. Brooks June 2009, Vol. 96, No. 1, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/96.1/br_97.html The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (University of Illinois Press, 2008), edited by Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. Wilson; reviewed by Michael P. Johnson June 2009, Vol. 96, No. 1, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/96.1/br_52.html Volume Year 95 March 2009 Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (Harvard University Press, 2008), by George M. Fredrickson; reviewed by Randall M. Miller March 2009, Vol. 95, No. 4, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.4/br_58.html 1 Lincoln and the Court (Harvard University Press, 2008), by Brian McGinty; reviewed by Richard F. Hamm March 2009, Vol. 95, No. 4, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.4/br_60.html Lincoln’s Christianity (Westholme, 2007), by Michael Burkhimer; reviewed by Mitchell Snay March 2009, Vol. 95, No. 4, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.4/br_59.html Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin (Prometheus, 2008), by David R. Contosta; reviewed by Bruce Kuklick March 2009, Vol. 95, No. 4, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.4/br_57.html December 2008 Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union (Walker, 2008), by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick; reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams December 2008, Vol. 95, No. 3, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.3/br_53.html President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman (Knopf, 2008), by William Lee Miller; reviewed by Frederick J. Blue December 2008, Vol. 95, No. 3, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.3/br_52.html September 2008 Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War (University Press of Kentucky, 2007), by Burrus M. Carnahan; reviewed by Matthew Pinsker September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.2/br_60.html Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America—Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln (Georgetown University Press, 2007), by Matthew S. Holland; reviewed by David Wagner September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.2/br_17.html Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard; reviewed by Kirt H. Wilson September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.2/br_61.html Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), by Russell McClintock.; reviewed by Susan-Mary Grant September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.2/br_58.html 2 Lincoln’s Legacy: Ethics and Politics (University of Illinois Press, 2008), edited by Phillip Shaw Paludan; reviewed by William C. Harris September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.2/br_67.html The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln’s Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America (Smithsonian Books, 2008), by Roy Morris Jr.; and Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America (Simon & Schuster, 2008), by Allen C. Guelzo; joint review by Wayne Temple September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.2/br_57.html The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (Norton, 2007), by James Oakes; reviewed by Stanley Harrold September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.2/br_59.html June 2008 No entries. Volume Year 94 March 2008 The Age of Lincoln (Hill and Wang, 2007), by Orville Vernon Burton; reviewed by Edward J. Blum March 2008, Vol. 94, No. 4, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.4/br_45.html Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum (Fordham University Press, 2007), edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel; reviewed by Brian R. Dirck March 2008, Vol. 94, No. 4, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.4/br_47.html Lincoln the Lawyer (University of Illinois Press, 2007), by Brian Dirck; reviewed by William D. Pederson March 2008, Vol. 94, No. 4, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.4/br_46.html Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency (University Press of Kansas, 2007), by William C. Harris; reviewed by Stephen Hansen March 2008, Vol. 94, No. 4, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.4/br_48.html The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), by Jason Emerson; reviewed by Gerald N. Grob March 2008, Vol. 94, No. 4, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.4/br_50.html 3 December 2007 Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race (Northern Illinois University Press, 2007), edited by Brian R. Dirck; reviewed by Michael T. Smith December 2007, Vol. 94, No. 3, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.3/br_31.html September 2007 Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2006), by Robert Tracy McKenzie; reviewed by Jon L. Wakelyn September 2007, Vol. 94, No. 2, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.2/br_43.html June 2007 Lincoln’s Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri’s Civil War Governor (Louisiana State University Press, 2006), by Dennis K. Boman; reviewed by Marshall DeRosa June 2007, Vol. 94, No. 1, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.1/br_57.html Volume Year 93 March 2007 Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery (Oxford University Press, 2006), by Richard Striner; reviewed by Michael P. Johnson March 2007, Vol. 93, No. 4, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/93.4/br_48.html December 2006 The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln (Michigan State University Press, 2005), by Michael William Pfau; reviewed by Stephen E. Maizlish December 2006, Vol. 93, No. 3, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/93.3/br_43.html Exhibition Review: “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War” (National Constitution Center, Philadelphia; temporary and traveling exhibition, opened 2006); reviewed by Randall M. Miller December 2006, Vol. 93, No. 3, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/93.3/exr_1.html September 2006 The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (Norton, 2005), by Sean Wilentz; reviewed by Michael F. Holt September 2006, Vol. 93, No. 2, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/93.2/br_1.html Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Simon & Schuster, 2005), by Doris Kearns Goodwin; reviewed by Frederick J. Blue September 2006, Vol. 93, No. 2, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/93.2/br_47.html 4 June 2006 “First Among Equals”: Abraham Lincoln’s Reputation during His Administration (Fordham University Press, 2005), by Hans L. Trefousse; reviewed by Thomas R. Turner June 2006, Vol. 93, No. 1, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/93.1/br_53.html Volume Year 92 March 2006 The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln (Free Press, 2005), by C. A. Tripp and edited by Lewis Gannett; reviewed by Matthew Pinsker March 2006, Vol. 92, No. 4, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/92.4/br_46.html December 2005 Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck (Belknap, 2004), by John F. Marszalek; reviewed by Paul D. Casdorph December 2005, Vol. 92, No. 3, Journal of American History http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/92.3/br_55.html Exhibition Review: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield (permanent exhibition, opened 2005); reviewed by John R.
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