Introduction / Nicholas Buccola
Part I. Lincoln and democracy
Prosperity and tyranny in Lincoln's Lyceum Address / John Burt
Providentialism and politics: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and the problem of democracy / Michael Zuckert
Part II. Lincoln and liberty
Lincoln and the ethics of emancipation: universalism, nationalism, exceptionalism / Dorothy Ross
What if honest abe was telling the truth? Natural rights, race, and legalism in the political thought of Lincoln / Nicholas Buccola
Part III. Lincoln and equality
"The vital element of the Republican Party": antislavery, nativism, and Lincoln / Bruce Levine
Lincoln's competing political loyalties: antislavery, union, and the constitution / Manisha Sinha
Part IV. Lincoln as a liberal democratic statesman
Four roads to emancipation: Lincoln, the law, and the proclamation / Allen Guelzo
Lincoln's Kantian Republic / Steven B. Smith.