Books written by William K. Klingaman
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Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865
Graebner, Norman A., ed. Freedom in America: A 200-Year Perspective. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. ———, ed. Politics and the Crisis of 1860. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1961.
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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942
“uneasy and suspicious”: NYT, Nov. 5, 1942. “not in a position...”: WP, Oct. 27, 1942. “In all governmental affairs...”: Ibid. “The people who are . . .”: Bogard and Bryer, p. 539. “over-staffed, over-stuffed government”: R. Dallek, p.
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The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
Bate, Jonathan. The Song of the Earth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Beckley, Hosea. The History of Vermont. Brattleboro: George H. Salisbury, 1846. Benson, Arthur C. The Letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 1.
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The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
Fearing the worst for his congregation in South Windsor, Connecticut—and for his own crops— the Reverend Thomas Robbins decided to preach a sermon that morning on the parable of the Barren Fig Tree (Luke 13: 6–9): “A certain man had a ...
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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942
Devlin, Albert J., and Nancy M. Tischler, eds. Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams. Vol. 1, 1920–1945. New York: New Directions, 2000. Diehl, Lorraine B. Over Here! New York City During World War II. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
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Nineteen Twenty-nine: The Year of the Great Crash
Nineteen Twenty-nine: The Year of the Great Crash
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1941: Our Lives in a World on the Edge
A world history view of the year that determined the outcome of World War II and also the history of western civilization.
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The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman
An engrossing popular history of the major events and people at the time of Jesus, the Roman Empire, and the Han Dynasty.