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Becoming Lincoln: His Changing Legacy From Savior Of The Union To The Great Emancipator, 1865 - 1965, Nicki Hannum
Becoming Lincoln: His Changing Legacy From Savior Of The Union To The Great Emancipator, 1865 - 1965, Nicki Hannum
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
The aim of this project is to demonstrate the relationship between scholarly treatments of Abraham Lincoln since his death and popular conceptions of the man and his legacy in the United States. Lincoln is an integral figure in American identity and central to collective national narratives of exceptionalism and racial progress. As such, Lincoln manifests in scholarly discourse and popular American culture with regularity. For this thesis, I analyzed the connections between academic and popular representations of Lincoln, illustrating the evolution of his legacy in American memory. I drew upon academic journal articles and long-form publications for an understanding of …