What are you reading now?

[RJNorton]

Recently I purchased "The Global Lincoln": http://www.amazon.com/The-Global-Lincoln...019537911X
I haven't read it yet, but I'm looking forward to - from paging through it looks very interesting!

Eva, an ex-student of mine, Tom Schwartz, attended the 2009 Oxford conference on "The Global Lincoln." At the time he wrote and told me that some very interesting papers were presented at the conference. He said that most of them evoked Lincoln as unifier and statesman rather than Lincoln as emancipator. He also mentioned that a book would be published that presented these papers, and I think this is the book. (I noticed Jörg Nagler, whom you just mentioned in another thread, was also present at the conference.)

There is a very basic outline of that conference here.