Robert W. Johannsen, professor emeritus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one of the leading Jacksonian- and Civil War-era historians of his generation IN his honor, eleven of his students have gathered to contribute new essays on the period’s history. On display here are cutting-edge examinations of thought and culture in the late Jacksonian era, new consideration of Manifest Destiny, and fascinating interpretations of the lives of the two political giants of the period, Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. Democratic Party politics and Civil War-era religion also come into play. Daniel McDonough is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Tennessee at Martin, Kenneth W. Noe is Draughton Professor of History at Auburn University.

ISBN 1-57591-101-9

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