Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Lincoln's Political Faith in the Peoria Address / Joseph R. Fornieri -- Lincoln's Political Religion and Religious Politics / Lucas E. Morel -- Lincoln, Douglas, and Popular Sovereignty: The Mormon Dimension / John Y. Simon -- The Campaign of 1860: Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, and the Campaign of Words and Images / Harold Holzer -- Photo Insert -- ''I See the President'': Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home / Matthew Pinsker -- Varieties of Religious Experience: Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Jean Baker -- The Poet and the President: Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman / Daniel Mark Epstein -- 1862-A Year of Decision for President Lincoln and General Halleck / John F. Marszalek -- ''I Felt It to Be My Duty to Refuse'': The President and the Slave Trader / William Lee Miller -- Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant / Jean Edward Smith -- Motivating Men: Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, and Kennedy / Geoffrey Perret -- Lincoln and His Admirals / Craig L. Symonds -- After Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln's Black Dream / Michael Vorenberg -- The Second Inaugural Address: The Spoken Words / Ronald C. White, Jr. -- Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties: Then and Now, Frank J. Williams -- After Lincoln's Reelection: Foreign Complications / William C. Harris -- Henry Adams on Lincoln / Garry Wills -- Lincoln's Assassination and John Wilkes Booth's Confederate Connection / Edward Steers, Jr. -- Notes -- Contributors -- The Lincoln Forum.