For a Vast Future Also: Essays from The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln
Association, brings together the most informative and thoughtful
articles by fourteen accomplished scholars in the Lincoln field. The
essays provide compact, detailed treatments concerning different facets
of three general themes: Lincoln and the problems of emancipation;
Lincoln and presidential politics; and the Lincoln legacy. Readers of
the collection will understand why the Civil War profoundly changed the
nation. These essays give insight into how Lincoln and his
administration dealt with the profound issues of war and slavery and the
continuing legacy of Lincoln and the war.
No book or essay collection brings together the writings of such
luminaries in the field as John Hope Franklin, James M. McPherson, Don
E. Fehrenbacher, T. Harry Williams, Phillip S. Paludan, Harold Hyman,
John Niven, William A. Gienapp, Norman B. Ferris, John T. Hubbell,
Arthur Zilversmit, Eugene H. Berwanger, Christopher N. Breiseth, and
Michael Vorenberg. Researchers now have these valuable essays available
in one volume. It offers the general public the distillation of
scholarship supported by the Abraham Lincoln Association over the past
twenty-five years. And college and university introductory courses will
find this book a valuable summary of, and introduction to, the major
issues of the Civil War period.