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Index
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abolition, 25, 45, 73, 113–15, 157
abolitionisHm, 27, 31, 144
See also antislavery politics
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Nicolay and Hay), 4–7, 210, 213, 224, 231–316, 322
abridged edition, 321
authors’ access to Lincoln papers, 4, 248, 250–51, 254
authors’ goals for, 254, 267, 287
authors’ personal recollections in, 259
authors’ research and methodology, 224, 251, 259–62, 266–67, 281
authors’ youth and qualifications, 253–54, 259, 302
background of, 247–52, 253
Chase’s portrayal in, 298–99
discussion of Civil War and its causes, 4, 7, 272–80, 287–94, 297–98, 307–8, 313–14
discussion of Emancipation Proclamation, 292–93
discussion of Gettysburg Address, 294–96
explanations of Lincoln’s greatness in, 315–16, 322
Gilder and publication in Century, 250–51, 267–75, 278–79, 303
as historical narrative, 278–80, 313–14
influence and reputation of, 4–5, 280, 307, 313–16, 333, 339
length of, 266–67
Lincoln documents analyzed in, 304, 338–39
Lincoln’s death in, 259
Lincoln’s early life in, 256–57, 281–85
Lincoln’s image and, 4–5, 6–7, 254, 300, 314–16
Lincoln’s marriage and family in, 284–85
Lincoln’s portrayal in, 4–5, 280–81, 291–93
McClellan’s portrayal in, 279, 296–98
Northern viewpoint of, 4, 6–7, 272–77, 285–91, 307–8
prose style of, 261
publication in book form, 271, 303
reception of, 278–80, 301–3, 307–8
Robert Todd Lincoln and, 254–57, 260, 285, 303
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (Sandburg), 306–7
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (Sandburg), 306–7
Acton, Lord, 321
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 260, 302
Adams, Charles Francis, Sr., 208, 214, 219, 250, 251, 300
Adams, Clover, 208, 211–12
Adams, Henry, 219, 301
on Andrew Johnson, 183
Hay’s friendship with, 8, 208–9, 211–12, 325
on Hay’s support for Republican Party, 323–24
on postwar change, 214
on slavery, 29, 54
Adams, Herbert Baxter, 258
African Americans
during Civil War, 113
as “contrabands,” 132, 200, 293, 294
freedmen’s schools, 133
Lincoln’s reputation among, 132
literary portrayals of, 196–203, 265–66, 269
slaves as chattel, 28, 38, 47, 113, 114
in twentieth-century Civil War scholarship, 310, 311
in Union army, 132, 134–35, 149, 151, 152, 168, 293
See also civil rights of African Americans; race relations and racial equality; Reconstruction; slavery
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 224
Allen, Robert, 237
American Conflict, The (Greeley), 250
American Historical Association, 258
American Party (Know-Nothings), 39–40