Books written by Harold Holzer
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Exploring Lincoln: Great Historians Reappraise Our Greatest President
Despite the literally thousands of books that have been written about Abraham Lincoln, he continues to fascinate.
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The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory
"A bonanza of penetrating, insightful and thoughtful essays on multiple aspects of Lincoln's assassination that will be warmly welcomed by scholars and amateurs alike."---Anthony S. Pitch, author of "They Have Killed Papa Dead!
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Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies
Some have not been published for over a century. It all adds up to an unusual, very intimate portrait of a complex man. Lincoln As I Knew Him strips away the myths and legends to uncover the authentic Abraham Lincoln.
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The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views
The Emancipation Proclamation is the most important document of arguably the greatest president in U.S. history.
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Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment
This collection effectively explores slavery as a Constitutional issue, both from the viewpoint of the original intent of the nation’s founders as they failed to deal with slavery, and as a study of the Constitutional authority of the ...
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Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
This collection also features new year-by-year introductions by esteemed historians, including James M. McPherson, Craig L. Symonds, and James I. Robertson, Jr., who cast wise modern eyes on the cataclysm that changed America and would go ...
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The Living Lincoln
Featuring eleven essays from major historians, the book offers thoughtful, provocative, and highly original examinations of Lincoln's role as commander-in-chief, his use of the press to shape public opinion, his position as a politician and ...
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Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment
This collection effectively explores slavery as a Constitutional issue, both from the viewpoint of the original intent of the nation’s founders as they failed to deal with slavery, and as a study of the Constitutional authority of the ...
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Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French
The book includes a comprehensive geographical guide to French's public work.
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Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
An anthology of excerpts from the four-volume classic "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" features first-hand recollections by the Civil War's commanders and subordinates on both sides, with commentary by such leading scholars as James ...
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In Lincoln's Hand: His Original Manuscripts with Commentary by Distinguished Americans
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New York Times Book of the Civil War 1861-1865: 650 Eyewitness Accounts and Articles
"This is a fascinating and riveting look at the most important event in American history as seen through the eyes of an institution that was emerging as the most important newspaper in American history.
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The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft
Hartranft's keen observations, ably analyzed by historians Steers and Holzer, will add a riveting new chapter to the story of Lincoln's assassination.
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The Lincoln Family Album
This intimate collection of family photographs provides a rare glimpse into the personal life of one of the greatest figures in American history, Abraham Lincoln.
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Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies
Editor Harold Holzer sifted through nineteenth century letters, diary entries, books, and speeches written by people who actually met Abraham Lincoln and offers up the scoop on America's greatest president....
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Father Abraham: Lincoln and His Sons
Lincoln's father had beaten him as a young man , and he never got over the experience . He was not about to inflict any physical punishment on his own sons , ever . Mary was less successful than Abraham in controlling her temper ...
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Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861
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.
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Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President
Brainerd and Nott statements in Putnam, Abraham Lincoln: The People's Leader, 212. ... Original copy, autographed by the editors, examined in the Gilder Lehrman Collection (GLC 4471.05), then in the Morgan Library, New York. Nott to ...
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The Civil War in 50 Objects
The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil War From a soldier’s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown’s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the leaves from ...
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Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America: A Companion Book for Young Readers to the Steven Spielberg Film
The book also includes thirty historical photographs, a chronology, a historical cast of characters, texts of selected Lincoln writings, a bibliography, and notes.