"The Lincoln Image" documents how popular prints helped make Lincoln's a household face, deliberately crafting the image of a man of the people, someone with whom an ordinary American could identify. Featuring the work of Currier and Ives, John Sartain, and other artists and printmakers, this lavishly illustrated volume pairs original photographs and paintings with the prints made from them. That juxtaposition shows how printmakers reworked the original images to refine Lincoln's appearance. In several prints, his image replaces those of earlier politicians (the nineteenth-century equivalent of being "airbrushed in"); in others, a beard has been added to images that originally appeared clean-shaven. Focusing on prints produced in Lincoln's lifetime and in the iconographically important months immediately following his death, "The Lincoln Image" also includes wartime cartoons, Lincoln family portraits (most of which appeared after the assassination), and renderings of the fateful moment of the shooting at Ford's Theatre. In addition to discussing the prints themselves, prominent Lincoln scholars Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E. Neely Jr. examine the political environment of the nineteenth century that sustained a market for political prints, showing how politics offered spectacle, ritual, and amusement to a nation without organized sports and with only a rudimentary entertainment industry. A fascinating examination of the relationship between Lincoln's image, the printmakers' craft, and the political culture that helped shape them both, "The Lincoln Image" documents how printmakers both chronicled and shaped Lincoln's transfiguration into an American icon.

Essays by leading Lincoln scholars seek to unravel the 'Lincoln enigma' by exploring often controversial topics, including his possible gay relationships and his plan to send blacks back to Africa.

This is a control theory text written at the technology level emphasizing modern control theory and use of digital control. (view table of contents)

Examines the treatment of Confederate soldiers and generals in lithographs and engravings from 1861 to 1907 (view table of contents)

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Essays by nine leading authorities, including Emory M. Thomas and Kent Gramm, shed new light on the great Civil War battle, focusing on little known facts and controversial themes.

Essays examine the causes of the Civil War, discussing pivotal events, people, and institutions

Gathers 750 of Lincoln's most memorable lines from speeches, debates, letters, and diary entries--from meditations on democracy to folk wisdom--and includes the full text of three of Lincoln's most celebrated speeches, including the Gettysburg Address. UP.

Discusses historical interpretation of Lincoln's life, personality, motivations, ideology, and assassination

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An intimate look at Lincoln's relationships with his generals--McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, and Grant--shows how they differed from popular conceptions and how Lincoln dealt with McClellan's obstinacy, Sherman's racism, and 'old snapping turtle' Meade, the victor at Gettysburg. (view table of contents)

Essays offer fresh looks at the Civil War, including President Lincoln, military strategy, the emancipation movement, and other national unification movements

Reviews how historians have explained the South's defeat, and examines the two sides' strategies, generals, advantages, and disadvantages (view table of contents)