"I am naturally anti-slavery" : young Abraham Lincoln and slavery
"Always a Whig" : Lincoln, the law, and the second party system
"The monstrous injustice" : becoming a republican
"A house divided" : slavery and race in the late 1850s
"The only substantial difference" : secession and Civil War
"I must have Kentucky" : the border strategy
"Forever free" : the coming of emancipation
"A new birth of freedom" : securing emancipation
"A fitting, and necessary conclusion" : abolition, reelection, and the challenge of reconstruction
"Every drop of blood" : the meaning of the war.
The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery by Eric Foner. ISBN 9780393066180. Published by W.W. Norton in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.