Ⅰ．Getting Right with Lincoln 3
Ⅱ．Toward a Reconsideration of Abolitionists 19
Ⅲ．Herndon and Mrs．Lincoln 37
Ⅳ．A．Lincoln，Politician 57
Ⅴ．Refighting the Civil War 82
Ⅵ．The Radicals and Lincoln 103
Ⅶ．Abraham Lincoln and the American Pragmatic Tradition 128
Ⅷ．The Folklore Lincoln 144
Ⅸ．Toward a Western Literature，1820-60(in collaboration with FREDERICK A．PALMER) 167
Ⅹ．Abraham Lincoln：Whig in the White House 187
Ⅺ．An Excess of Democracy：The American Civil War and the Social Process 209
Bibliographical Essay 237
Index 250