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Publisher
Colorado State University
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As a young boy, William (Willie) Wilson Curtin was on the dignities platform when the Gettysburg cemetery was consecrated. A photograph shows Abraham Lincoln and Willie Curtin, son of Pennsylvania's Governor Andrew Curtin just prior to Lincoln giving the famed Gettysburg address. The history of Gettysburg battle and cemetery and the impact of the Gettysburg address are discussed.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Veteran journalist Douglas Waller, who has written ground-breaking intelligence histories, turns his sights on the shadow war of four secret agents for the North, three men and one woman. From the tense days before Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 to the surrender at Appomattox four years later, Waller delivers a fast-paced narrative of the heroes, and scoundrels, who informed Lincoln's generals on the enemy positions for crucial battles and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation's demographics, culture, and--perhaps most significantly--voting patterns. America's newest residents fueled the national economy, but they...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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This superbly researched, brilliantly plotted, and thoroughly gripping mystery draws readers into a sinister conspiracy of assassination and intrigue.
In March 1900, as former congressman John Bingham lies dying, he tells a strange tale to his physician, Dr. Jamie Fraser. Bingham famously prosecuted eight members of John Wilkes Booth's plot to kill President Lincoln. But during the 1865 trial, conspirator Mary Surratt divulged
69) The Conspirator
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth, planned the simultaneous...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train...
71) The Civil War
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1990
Language
English
Description
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When John Hay died in 1905, he was one of the most famous men in the world and one of the most highly regarded. Hay enjoyed remarkable success in public and private life: He was Abraham Lincoln's private secretary during the Civil War, and thereafter he was a popular poet, novelist, newspaper, editor, highly esteemed historian and biographer, diplomat, businessman, and secretary of state until his death. Author Philip McFarland presents both the...
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
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An audiobook to be treasured by all history buffs: the companion volume to the ABC TV documentary.
This remarkable biography presents Abraham Lincoln as we have never before seen him. The insightful and vibrant narrative draws extensively on diaries, letters, and other primary sources to provide a remarkably close-up view of Lincoln: the boy, the homespun politician, the president, the military leader, the man with his family. Philip B. Kunhardt,...
This remarkable biography presents Abraham Lincoln as we have never before seen him. The insightful and vibrant narrative draws extensively on diaries, letters, and other primary sources to provide a remarkably close-up view of Lincoln: the boy, the homespun politician, the president, the military leader, the man with his family. Philip B. Kunhardt,...
74) Hope's gift
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Sandawe
Description
A runaway slave during the Civil War, Hope's father returns after the Emancipation Proclamation as a member of the U.S. Colored Troops.