Emphasizing the significance of his political and historical engagement, this work casts Abraham Lincoln as a cultural figure.

This collection of essays by ten major scholars explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import.

In this Companion, leading film scholars and critics of American culture and imagination trace Hitchcock's interplay with the Hollywood studio system, the Cold

The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy explores the creation, and afterlife, of an American icon.

Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and timeless questions in polit