Mourning Lincoln (ePub)
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A historian examines how everyday people reacted to the president's assassination in this "highly original, lucidly written book" (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom).
The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just...
The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just...
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A historian examines how everyday people reacted to the president's assassination in this "highly original, lucidly written book" (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom).
The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded a war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people-northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich and poor.
Exploring diaries, letters, and other personal writings penned during the spring and summer of 1865, historian Martha Hodes captures the full range of reactions to the president's death-far more diverse than public expressions would suggest. She tells a story of shock, glee, sorrow, anger, blame, and fear. "'Tis the saddest day in our history," wrote a mournful man. It was "an electric shock to my soul," wrote a woman who had escaped from slavery. "Glorious News!" a Lincoln enemy exulted, while for the black soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, it was all "too overwhelming, too lamentable, too distressing" to absorb.
Longlisted for the National Book Award, Mourning Lincoln brings to life a key moment of national uncertainty and confusion, when competing visions of America's future proved irreconcilable and hopes for racial justice in the aftermath of the Civil War slipped from the nation's grasp. Hodes masterfully explores the tragedy of Lincoln's assassination in human terms-terms that continue to stagger and rivet us today.
The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded a war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people-northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich and poor.
Exploring diaries, letters, and other personal writings penned during the spring and summer of 1865, historian Martha Hodes captures the full range of reactions to the president's death-far more diverse than public expressions would suggest. She tells a story of shock, glee, sorrow, anger, blame, and fear. "'Tis the saddest day in our history," wrote a mournful man. It was "an electric shock to my soul," wrote a woman who had escaped from slavery. "Glorious News!" a Lincoln enemy exulted, while for the black soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, it was all "too overwhelming, too lamentable, too distressing" to absorb.
Longlisted for the National Book Award, Mourning Lincoln brings to life a key moment of national uncertainty and confusion, when competing visions of America's future proved irreconcilable and hopes for racial justice in the aftermath of the Civil War slipped from the nation's grasp. Hodes masterfully explores the tragedy of Lincoln's assassination in human terms-terms that continue to stagger and rivet us today.
Autoren-Porträt von Martha Hodes
Martha Hodes is professor of history at New York University. She is the author of two previous prize-winning books, The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century and White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Martha Hodes
- 2019, 408 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Yale University Press (Ignition)
- ISBN-10: 0300213565
- ISBN-13: 9780300213560
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2019
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Selected as a long list finalist for the 2015 National Book Awards for NonfictionA Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2015
Winner of the 2016 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Winner of the 2016 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians
“A stunning piece of research, based on an extraordinary range of materials often overlooked by traditional historians.”—Michael Burlingame, Wall Street Journal “[A] lyrical and important new study.”—Jill Lepore, The New York Times Book Review
“An intimate, bracing account.”—Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
“This is a book full of things you think you know—and the opposite. The author has discovered much that is new and unknown.” —Liz Smith, NewYorkSocialDiary.com
“Mourning Lincoln is richly detailed and exquisitely written. It represents the best of cultural history in that it immerses the readers in the world of 1865.” —Anne Sarah Rubin, Journal of American History
“Impressively researched, passionately written, and methodologically innovative, this poignant volume is one of those rare efforts that will reward lay readers and scholars alike.” —Brian Matthew Jordan, North Carolina Historical Review
“In [Hodes’s] analysis, [Lincoln’s assassination] becomes more personal and more nuanced. . . . Fine work . . . complex, contradictory, and fascinating.” —Daniel W. Stowell, Indiana Magazine of History
“Engaged and engaging. . . . [T]his is a welcome volume.” —Eugene Heath, Journal of Scottish Philosophy
“[Mourning Lincoln] is a meticulously researched volume . . . that seeks to understand how America grieves as a nation. . . . As with any good account of history, it provides valuable lessons with which we can seek to build the bright future that Lincoln had imagined in his second inaugural
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address.” —Molly F. James, Anglican and Episcopal History
“Drawing on a remarkable range of diaries, letters, and other contemporary documents, Martha Hodes offers a compelling and moving account of how Americans, black and white, North and South, responded to Lincoln's assassination. The result is a portrait of a deeply divided country and a foreshadowing of the violent battles to come over reunion and Reconstruction.” —Eric Foner, author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery and Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
“There are many books on the Lincoln assassination and the public response to it. But Martha Hodes’s work is the first to focus in great detail on the responses of ordinary individuals, Northern and Southern, white and black, soldiers and civilians, women and men, in their diaries and personal correspondence, and to blend such response into the larger story of public events. The amount of research is simply staggering. This is a highly original, lucidly written, book.” —James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
“Mourning Lincoln is an original and important book that traces various reactions to Lincoln’s assassination. Through extensive research, Martha Hodes has discovered voices that are both moving and surprising. The result is an illuminating work that allows us for the first time to understand fully the meaning of Lincoln’s death at the time.” —Louis P. Masur, author of Lincoln's Hundred Days
“Beautiful and terrible, Hodes’s marvelously written story of the assassination fills the mind, heart and soul. People never forgot the event; this book is a page-turner that makes it all unforgettable again as it also explains how one shocking death illuminated so many others.” —David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
“In Mourning Lincoln, Martha Hodes' ingenious approach and graceful execution succeed in deepening our knowledge of a calamity that will never fully end.” —Thomas Mallon, author of Henry and Clara and Mrs. Paine's Garage
“Drawing on a remarkable range of diaries, letters, and other contemporary documents, Martha Hodes offers a compelling and moving account of how Americans, black and white, North and South, responded to Lincoln's assassination. The result is a portrait of a deeply divided country and a foreshadowing of the violent battles to come over reunion and Reconstruction.” —Eric Foner, author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery and Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
“There are many books on the Lincoln assassination and the public response to it. But Martha Hodes’s work is the first to focus in great detail on the responses of ordinary individuals, Northern and Southern, white and black, soldiers and civilians, women and men, in their diaries and personal correspondence, and to blend such response into the larger story of public events. The amount of research is simply staggering. This is a highly original, lucidly written, book.” —James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
“Mourning Lincoln is an original and important book that traces various reactions to Lincoln’s assassination. Through extensive research, Martha Hodes has discovered voices that are both moving and surprising. The result is an illuminating work that allows us for the first time to understand fully the meaning of Lincoln’s death at the time.” —Louis P. Masur, author of Lincoln's Hundred Days
“Beautiful and terrible, Hodes’s marvelously written story of the assassination fills the mind, heart and soul. People never forgot the event; this book is a page-turner that makes it all unforgettable again as it also explains how one shocking death illuminated so many others.” —David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
“In Mourning Lincoln, Martha Hodes' ingenious approach and graceful execution succeed in deepening our knowledge of a calamity that will never fully end.” —Thomas Mallon, author of Henry and Clara and Mrs. Paine's Garage
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