Research Catalog

Title

Our fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and the Civil War era / Stephen B. Oates.

Author

Oates, Stephen B.

Publication

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1979.

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Details

Description

ix, 150 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

In this collection of ten interrelated essays, Stephen B. Oates focuses on the American Civil War era and several of its leading figures. While arguing 'the need for unflinching realism and a humanistic approach in the study of the past, ' Oates critically examines alternative interpretive practices, particularly those serving polemical, political, or mythical standards.

Subject

• Brown, John, 1800-1859
• Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• 1861-1865
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [130]-143.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Styron's war against the blacks -- God's stone in the pool of slavery -- John Brown and his judges -- Modern radicals and John Brown -- The enigma of Stephen A. Douglas -- Lincoln's journey to emancipation -- The long shadow of Lincoln -- Carl Sandburg's Lincoln -- Ghost riders in the sky -- Themes and variations of a Civil War trilogy.

ISBN

• 0870232614
• 0870233971 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^78016286^//r84

OCLC

• 4036877
• SCSB-13332769

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library