Background
Johannsen, Robert Walter was born on August 22, 1925 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Walter George and Hedwig Bertha (Flemming) Johannsen.
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Lincoln, The South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)
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Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History In 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared his hatred for the institution of slavery, likening his feelings of opposition to those of the abolitionists. Although the fact that Lincoln always disliked slavery is indisputable, the idea that he always opposed it with the zeal and fervor of the abolitionists remains questionable. Only four years prior to his bold declaration, Lincoln admittedly paid little attention to slavery, viewing it as only a minor issue. But in the six years preceding his presidency, his antislavery stance underwent dramatic change. Fueled by political ambition, Lincoln's argument against slavery and his prescription for dealing with it moved from what he initially labeled a middle-ground stance to a more radical position. Robert W. Johannsen's Lincoln, the South, and Slavery traces the political dimension of Lincoln's antislavery stance as it evolved from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 to his election as president in 1860. Whereas previous scholars have largely ignored the political character of Lincoln's antislavery argument, Johannsen sees Lincoln as an astute and ambitious politician whose statements where shaped and directed by the time's ever-changing political exigencies and considerations. Johannsen does not demean the quality of Lincoln's sincerity or downgrade the importance of his moral convictions on the slavery issue, but he does suggest that politics played a larger role than previously acknowledged in the form these convictions took. The four chapters that compose this work connect Lincoln's position with his attitude toward the South and Southerners, from his initial appeal to Southerners at a time when he sought to revitalize the dying Whig party, through his deepening involvement in the Republican party, to his final belief that the South and Southern interests no longer needed to be considered as factors determining his national political success. Johannsen focuses on Lincoln's debut in 1854 as an antislavery speaker, on the development of his stand for the ultimate extinction of slavery, on his espression of the doctrine of the irrepressible conflict, and finally on Lincoln's and the South's perceptions of each other in 1860. As no other work has done, Lincoln, the South, and Slavery shows how Lincoln, in response to the demands of politics, became increasingly anti-slavery and anti-Southern during the 1850s. It will be a welcome contribution to the ongoing debate about the enigma of Lincoln and about his role in the coming of the Civil War.
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The Frontier, the Union, and Stephen A. Douglas
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Lincoln, The South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History) by Robert W. Johannsen (1993-10-01)
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Democracy on Trial
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Lincoln, the South and Slavery - the Political Dimension (The Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history)
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Book by Johannsen, Robert W.
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The Lincoln - Douglas Debates
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To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination
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For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself.
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Robert Walter Johannsen
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Arts, Reed College, 1948; Master of Arts, University Washington, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy, University Washington, 1953; Doctor of Hebrew Literature (honorary), Lincoln College, 1983.
Career
Instructor history, U. Washington, 1953-1954;
assistant professor, then associate professor, U. Kansas, 1954-1959;
member of faculty, University of Illinois, since 1959;
professor of history, University of Illinois, since 1962;
J.G. Randall Distinguished professor American history, University of Illinois, since 1973;
department chairman, University of Illinois, 1963-1967;
Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, 1968-1969. Visiting lecturer University of Wisconsin, 1957. Visiting associate professor of University Oregon, summer 1960, Duke U., summer 1962.
Visiting Coe professor Stanford University, summer 1970. Pettyjohn distinguished lecturer Washington State University, 1984. Visiting distinguished professor Arizona State University, 1979, Louisiana State University, 1984.
Walter Lynwood Fleming lecturer Louisiana State University, 1989, R. Gerald McMurtry lecturer Warren Lincoln Library. and Museum, 1989.
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To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination
(For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not o...)
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Lincoln, The South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)
(Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History In 18...)
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The Lincoln - Douglas Debates
(Recently pulled from public school library.)
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Lincoln, the South and Slavery - the Political Dimension (The Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history)
(Book by Johannsen, Robert W.)
- The Frontier, Union, and Stephen A. Douglas
- The Frontier, the Union, and Stephen A. Douglas
- Lincoln, The South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History) by Robert W. Johannsen (1993-10-01)
- Democracy on Trial
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To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination
Membership
Served with Field Artillery Army of the United States, 1944-1946. Fellow Society American Historians. Member American History Association (recipient Koontz prize Pacific Coast branch 1953), Southern History Association (board editors 1966-1970, executive county 1984-1987), Illinois History Society (merit award 1973), Organisation American Historians (Pelzer prize 1952, Executive Board 1974-1977), Abraham Lincoln Association (advisory board since 1979).
Connections
Married Lois Adele Calderwood, March 19, 1949. Children: Nancy Louise, Robert Douglas.
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American
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Recipient Merit Award American Association State and Local History, 1962. Guggenheim fellow, 1967-1968. Senior university scholar University of Wisconsin, since 1990.Recipient Merit Award American Association State and Local History, 1962. Guggenheim fellow, 1967-1968. Senior university scholar University of Wisconsin, since 1990.