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GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE
BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN
THE GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN NATION
1. The Formation of a National Government
2. Territorial Expansion
3. The Growth of the Practice and Traditions of the Union Government
4. The Missouri Compromise
5. Leaders, Parties, and Tendencies in Lincoln's Youth
6. Slavery and Southern Society
7. Intellectual Development
LINCOLN'S EARLY CAREER
1. Life at New Salem
2. In the Illinois Legislature
3. Marriage
LINCOLN IN CONGRESS AND IN RETIREMENT
1. The Mexican War and Lincoln's Work in Congress
2. California and the Compromise of 1850
3. Lincoln in Retirement
4. The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
THE RISE OF LINCOLN
1. Lincoln's Return to Public Life
2. The Principles and the Oratory of Lincoln
3. Lincoln against Douglas
4. John Brown
5. The Election of Lincoln as President
SECESSION
1. The Case of the South against the Union
2. The Progress of Secession
3. The Inauguration of Lincoln
4. The Outbreak of War
THE CONDITIONS OF THE WAR
THE OPENING OF THE WAR AND LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION
1. Preliminary Stages of the War
2. Bull Run
3. Lincoln's Administration Generally
4. Foreign Policy and England
5. The Great Questions of Domestic Policy
THE DISASTERS OF THE NORTH
1. Military Policy of the North
2. The War in the West up to May, 1862
3. The War in the East up to May, 1863
EMANCIPATION
THE APPROACH OF VICTORY
1. The War to the End of 1863
2. Conscription and the Politics of 1863
3. The War in 1864
4. The Second Election of Lincoln─1864
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
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