A recent conference on Lincoln at Gettysburg resulted in this remarkable book of essays by distinguished Civil War scholars and Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, with an introduction by William C. Davis.
From the primary documents of The American Reader to The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind—the story of young man from an impoverished African village who built a windmill to bring life-changing electricity to his community—these books will ...
Hartranft's keen observations, ably analyzed by historians Steers and Holzer, will add a riveting new chapter to the story of Lincoln's assassination.
The other signatories were Owen W. Brennan , Thomas Little , S. B. Dutcher , E. F. Shepard . C.F. E. Luder , H. T. Cleveland , and George Sparrow . 42. Briggs in Leland , Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States ...
Fellow minister and abolitionist Henry M. Turner, pastor of Washington, D.C.'s Israel Bethel Church (and later bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination) used the occasion of the preliminary proclamation to urge his people ...
Celebrating the inventor Ericsson and his technological innovations in the Monitor , rather than the prowess of the naval commander Worden and his crew , this print accurately captured the image of the battle that would thereafter ...
The Adventurous Life of William O.Stoddard William O. Stoddard Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at ... With them was their brother, Judge Porter, an eminent lawyer, and his family, and their sister, Mrs. Farley, ...
I'm Coming to My Dixie Home, as sung by Lincoln's intelligent Contrabands (Unknown sprint, 1862]), 92 In Memoriam (C. ... 60; personal opposition to slavery, 4–5, 49-51, 54, 61, 76; portraits of, 87–89; problems with McClellan, 67-68; ...
In these 16 essays, Lincoln scholars offer fresh perspectives and revealing new research on the life and times of America’s greatest president.
Contributing to this volume are some of the finest scholars specializing in Lincoln’s assassination. All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their originality, and their writing.
186 ; Ballard , “ Cheers for Jefferson Davis , ” 8-15 . 8. Ulrich Troubetzkoy , " Sheppard at Valentine , " Richmond News Leader , December 27 , 1969 , clipping in Valentine Museum , Richmond , Virginia . 9. Pierce and Smith , Citizens ...
(London: Chapman & Hall, 1862), 2:427. Samuel Wilkeson testimony, January 24, 1862, National Archives. ... See also Croffut, An American Procession, 1855–1914: A Personal Memoir of Famous Men (Boston: Little, Brown, 1931), 56–64.
Quoted in Matthew Warshauer, Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, ... Jackson to Duff Green, August 10, 1827, Harold D. Moser, Daniel Feller, et al, eds., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, ...
These images helped sustain and revive Southern identity following the collapse of the Confederacy. (Though, ironically, most were actually crafted by Northern artisans.) The book focuses on prints of the three most prominent Southern ...
Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on Lincoln's public stance and private agony during these months and on the momentous consequences when he first demonstrated his determination and leadership.
One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect...
In Lincoln on War, historian Harold Holzer gathers and interprets Lincoln’s speeches, letters, memoranda, orders, telegrams, and casual remarks, organizing them chronologically and allowing readers to experience Lincoln’s growth from an ...
In this acclaimed book, Holzer brings us as close as possible to what Lincoln and Douglas actually said, Using transcripts of Lincoln's speeches as recorded by the pro-Douglas newspaper, and vice-versa, he offers the most reliable, unedited ...
In this remarkable new history, acclaimed scholar Harold Holzer examines the dual rise of the American presidency and the media that shaped it.
Harold Holzer's authoritative biography combines rich personal details from French's life with a nuanced study of his artistic evolution and beautiful archival photographs of his life and work.