Lincoln's body: a cultural history

Part I. The public body (1840-1865)

Lincoln's body politic

Last words, last breath

The martyr and his relics

African Americans and their emancipator

Rolling funeral, living corpse

Part II. The enshrined body (1865-1909)

The first Lincoln memorials

Monuments for the ages

Black emancipation, White reunion

Celebrating the Centenary of 1909

Part III. The national body (1909-2015)

Solidifying the Lincoln cult: two memorials

The hero on screen, from Griffith to Gage

Standing in Lincoln's shadow

Reviving the emancipator

Lincoln sightings at the bicentenary: Obama, Disney, Spielberg.