FROM THE EDITOR
Teaching Lincoln and the Constitution
Phillip M. Guerty
FOREWORD
Lincoln and the Constitution
Frank J. Williams
ARTICLES
"Dictator Lincoln": Surveying Lincoln and the Constitution
Phillip Shaw Paludan
"Much Older than the Constitution": Lincoln's Theory of Nationhood
Daniel A. Farber
Lincoln and the Constitutional Dilemma of Emancipation
Edna Greene Medford
"A Popular Demand and a Public Necessity": Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Frank J. Williams
TEACHING RESOURCES
Lincoln's Refutation of Secession
Veronica Burchard
Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Constitution
Jennifer L. Rosenfeld
MUSEUM SPOTLIGHT
Teaching Lincoln at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum
Erin I. Bishop
Teaching Lincoln at The Lincoln Museum in Ft. Wayne, Indiana
Sara Gabbard
TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS FROM THE GILDER LEHRMAN COLLECTION
Lincoln and Emancipation: Black Enfranchisement in 1863 Louisiana
Richard Carwardine
Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment
George P. Fletcher
AMERICA ON THE WORLD STAGE
The Civil Rights Movement in World Perspective
Kevin Gaines
On the cover: James Montgomery Flagg, title unknown, Undated. Oil painting, 47
3/4 x 26 1/4 inches. The artist and illustrator is best known for his
World War I and II Uncle Sam recruiting posters. Depicting the president’s
intensity of emotion and brooding personality, the painting has been
described as Lincoln waiting for news from the battlefront. From the Frank
and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana. Photo by Virginia Williams.
