Lincoln in American memory

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1. Apotheosis

2. Shapings in the Postwar Years. Lincoln, Reconstruction, and the South. Book, Portraits, and Monuments. The Early Biographers: Herndon and Others

3. Filling Up the Image. The Flood of Reminiscence. Aspects of Character. First Culmination: Nicolay and Hay and Others

4. To the Afterwar Generation. Lincolniana: The Collectors and Ida Tarbell. The Political Lincoln. The Negroes' Lincoln. The Centennial

5. Themes and Variations. The International Lincoln. Temple and Icon. Religion. Ancestry. Controversies Old and New

6. From Memory to History. Organizing the Lincoln Enterprise. Second Culmination: Sandburg, Beveridge, and Others. The Minor Affair. The Historians' Lincoln

7. Zenith. "What Would Lincoln Do?" Historians' Encounters. Civil Rights and Civil Religion. Lincoln at 150

8. Lincoln Everlasting