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Erekson, Keith A.

Everybody's history Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the quest to reclaim a president's past / [electronic resource] : Keith A. Erekson. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (256 p.) - Public history in historical perspective . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : "Lincoln is everybody's subject" -- The Lincoln Inquiry -- A crowded field -- The best witnesses -- Lincoln's Indiana environment -- The Klan and a conspiracy -- In the Lincoln atmosphere -- Conclusion: "a thousand minds" -- Appendix A: Members of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society, 1920-1939 -- Appendix B: Papers, publications, and works of the Lincoln Inquiry.

ISBN: 9781613761946 1613761945

Subjects--Personal Names:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Childhood and youth.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Homes and haunts--Indiana--Spencer County.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Southwestern Indiana Historical Society (Evansville, Ind.)--History.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Spencer County (Ind.)--Historiography--History--20th century.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E457.32 / .E74 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 977.2/31