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The Journal of the Historical Society, September 2009
Contents
"Introduction to the Forum on The Age of Lincoln"
Eric Arnesen
"Vernon Burton's The Age of Lincoln: A New Approach to Religion, Reform, and Abolitionism"
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
"'I Always Thought 'Dixie' One of the Best Tunes I Ever Heard': Lincoln's Claims on the South and the South's Claims on Lincoln"
Stephen Berry
"The Southern Abraham?"
David Moltke-Hansen
"Author's Response to the Southern Intellectual History Circle Forum on The Age of Lincoln"
Orville Vernon Burton
"Confronting Abolitionism: Bishop John England, American Catholicism, and Slavery"
Adam L. Tate
"They Twain Shall be One Flesh: The Courtship and Marriage of Thomas Hudson and Mary Aulick, Baptist Missionaries to China in the 1890s"
Keith Harper
"Reticence in Action: The Antisepsis Controversy"
Stewart Justman
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