As we continued to research, there were three articles written by Chandra Manning, Dorothy Ross and Manisha Sinha that caught my attention. All three articles focus on Abraham Lincoln. Each article has its own thesis question which is answered by the author.
Manning’s article focuses on the shifting attitudes towards Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. Ross’s articles explain “the ethical dimension of the story is always prominent, and since the 1960s, it has been influentially portrayed as the gradual, halting, but growing triumph of universalist liberal and Christian principles”.[1] The last article is by Manisha Sinha and focuses on the evolution of Lincoln’s views on slavery and race.
Manning, Chandra. “The Shifting Terrain of Attitudes Toward Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation.” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 34, no. 1 (2013): 18-39.
Ross, Dorothy. “Lincoln and the Ethics of Emancipation: Universalism, Nationalism, Exceptionalism.” In Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy, edited by Buccola Nicholas, 73-109. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2016.
Sinha, Manisha. “Did He Die an Abolitionist? The Evolution of Abraham Lincoln’s Antislavery.” American Political Thought 4, no. 3 (2015): 439-54.
[1] Dorothy Ross, “Lincoln and the Ethics of Emancipation: Universalism, Nationalism, Exceptionalism”, (In Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy, edited by Buccola Nicholas, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2016), 73
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