Mark E. Neely

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1) Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War

Author

Neely, Mark E

Series

Littlefield History of the Civil War Era

Language

English

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The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate Constitution, and the ways the documents shaped the struggle for national survival.Previous scholars have examined wartime challenges to civil liberties...

2) The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era

Author

Neely, Mark E

Series

Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era

Language

English

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Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing that social historians have gone too far in concluding that Americans were not deeply engaged in public life and that political historians have gone too far in asserting that politics informed all of Americans' lives, Mark Neely seeks to gauge the importance of politics for ordinary people in the Civil War era.Looking beyond...

3) The last best hope of earth: Abraham Lincoln and the promise of America

Author

Neely, Mark E

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

1993.

Language

English

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"Mark R. Neely, Jr., provides for the general reader the first compact biography of Abraham Lincoln based on new scholarship. There is no comparable, succinct work on this nation's greatest president." "The Last Best Hope of Earth vividly recaptures the central place of politics in Lincoln's life. In Illinois, Lincoln was an established and prosperous lawyer, married to a refined and educated southern belle, and the father of four boys. Throughout...