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I was in New York City on September 11, 2001, and I remember the moment of Kennedy’s assassination from my childhood. As a historian of the Civil War era, and as someone who lived through those two modern-day transformative events, I wanted to know not only what Mourning Lincoln happened in 1865 when people heard the news of Lincoln’s Martha Hodes death but also what those responses meant. Did anything surprise you during your research? How did individual Americans respond to the Bruce Dorsey Bruce Almost everything. Not only did I find a much wider array shock of President Lincoln’s assassination? of emotions and stories than I’d imagined, I also found that Diaries, letters, and intimate writings reveal a A conversation even those utterly devastated by the assassination easily complicated, untold story. with Martha interrupted their mourning to attend to the most mundane Hodes aspects of everyday life. I also found myself surprised by the unabated virulence of Lincoln’s northern critics and the way The news of Abraham Lincoln’s death on April 15, Confederates simultaneously celebrated Lincoln’s death 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded and instantly—on the very day he died—cast him as a fallen the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for friend to the white South. services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief Do personal responses to Lincoln’s assassination tell a larger and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached story about American history? in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve Very much so. The assassination provoked personal responses into the personal and intimate responses of everyday that were deeply intertwined with different and irreconcilable people—Northerners and Southerners, soldiers and visions of the postwar and post-emancipation nation. Black civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich freedom, the fate of former Confederates, and the future of and poor. the nation were at stake for all Americans, black and white, North and South, whether they grieved or rejoiced when they Through deep and thoughtful exploration of diaries, heard the news. letters, and other personal writings penned during the spring and summer of 1865, Martha Hodes captures the full range of reactions to the president’s assassina- “Drawing on a remarkable range of diaries, tion—far more diverse than public expressions would letters, and other contemporary documents, suggest. She tells a story of shock, glee, sorrow, anger, Martha Hodes offers a compelling and OURNING INCOLN Praise for M L blame, and fear. “’Tis the saddest day in our history,” moving account of how Americans, “There are many books on the Lincoln assassination and the public response to it. But Martha wrote a mournful man. “Glorious News!” a Lincoln black and white, North and South, Hodes’s work is the first to focus in great detail on the responses of ordinary individuals, enemy exulted. “Old Lincoln is dead, and I will kill the responded to Lincoln’s assassination. goddamned Negroes now,” an angry white Southerner The result is a portrait of a deeply Northern and Southern, white and black, soldiers and civilians, women and men, in their divided country and a foreshadowing ranted. Hodes brings to life a key moment of national diaries and personal correspondence, and to blend such response into the larger story of public of the violent battles to come over events. The amount of research is simply staggering. This is a highly original, lucidly written, uncertainty and confusion, when competing visions of reunion and Reconstruction.”—Eric book.”—James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom the country’s future proved irreconcilable and hopes for Foner, author of The Fiery Trial: racial justice in the aftermath of the Civil War slipped Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery from the nation’s grasp. and Reconstruction: America’s “Beautiful and terrible, Hodes’s marvelously written story of the assassination fills the mind, Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 heart and soul. People never forgot the event; this book is a page-turner that makes it all Also by Martha Hodes: unforgettable again as it also explains how one shocking death illuminated so many oth- MARTHA HODES is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of two previous prize-winning books, The Sea White Women, Black Men ers.”—David W. Blight, Yale University Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South Century and White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth- Paper 978-0-300-07750-6 $24.00 tx/£14.95 Century South. She lives in New York City and Swarthmore, PA. February History Cloth 978-0-300-19580-4 $30.00/£25.00 Also available as an eBook. 1 1 400 pp. 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 25 b/w illus. World 2 General Interest What led you to write a book about personal responses to Lincoln’s assassination? I was in New York City on September 11, 2001, and I remember the moment of Kennedy’s assassination from my childhood. As a historian of the Civil War era, and as someone who lived through those two modern-day transformative events, I wanted to know not only what Mourning Lincoln happened in 1865 when people heard the news of Lincoln’s Martha Hodes death but also what those responses meant. Did anything surprise you during your research? How did individual Americans respond to the Bruce Dorsey Bruce Almost everything. Not only did I find a much wider array shock of President Lincoln’s assassination? of emotions and stories than I’d imagined, I also found that Diaries, letters, and intimate writings reveal a A conversation even those utterly devastated by the assassination easily complicated, untold story. with Martha interrupted their mourning to attend to the most mundane Hodes aspects of everyday life. I also found myself surprised by the unabated virulence of Lincoln’s northern critics and the way The news of Abraham Lincoln’s death on April 15, Confederates simultaneously celebrated Lincoln’s death 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded and instantly—on the very day he died—cast him as a fallen the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for friend to the white South. services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief Do personal responses to Lincoln’s assassination tell a larger and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached story about American history? in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve Very much so. The assassination provoked personal responses into the personal and intimate responses of everyday that were deeply intertwined with different and irreconcilable people—Northerners and Southerners, soldiers and visions of the postwar and post-emancipation nation. Black civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich freedom, the fate of former Confederates, and the future of and poor. the nation were at stake for all Americans, black and white, North and South, whether they grieved or rejoiced when they Through deep and thoughtful exploration of diaries, heard the news. letters, and other personal writings penned during the spring and summer of 1865, Martha Hodes captures the full range of reactions to the president’s assassina- “Drawing on a remarkable range of diaries, tion—far more diverse than public expressions would letters, and other contemporary documents, suggest. She tells a story of shock, glee, sorrow, anger, Martha Hodes offers a compelling and blame, and fear. “’Tis the saddest day in our history,” moving account of how Americans, wrote a mournful man. “Glorious News!” a Lincoln black and white, North and South, enemy exulted. “Old Lincoln is dead, and I will kill the responded to Lincoln’s assassination. goddamned Negroes now,” an angry white Southerner The result is a portrait of a deeply divided country and a foreshadowing ranted. Hodes brings to life a key moment of national of the violent battles to come over uncertainty and confusion, when competing visions of reunion and Reconstruction.”—Eric the country’s future proved irreconcilable and hopes for Foner, author of The Fiery Trial: racial justice in the aftermath of the Civil War slipped Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery from the nation’s grasp. and Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 MARTHA HODES is Professor of History at New York University. Also by Martha Hodes: She is the author of two previous prize-winning books, The Sea White Women, Black Men Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South Century and White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth- Paper 978-0-300-07750-6 $24.00 tx/£14.95 Century South.