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Mathew Brady
Portraits of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The first narrative biography of the Civil War's pioneering visual historian, Mathew Brady, known as the "father of American photography.†?
Mathew Brady's attention to detail, flair for composition, and technical masteryhelped establish the photograph as a thing of value. In the 1840s...
Custer
The Making of a Young General
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his leadership in the American Indian Wars and unfortunate fall at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer: The Making...
by Henry Ketcham
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Abraham Lincoln (18091865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the countrys most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the Westerner who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before...
by Eric Foner
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe
Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery....
by Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was the best known Union general of the Civil War and a former president of the United States when he learned that he had terminal cancer in the mid-1880s. Grant had already been swindled by a fraudulent business deal, leaving him basically penniless. Facing a destitute death,...
Lincoln Reconsidered
Essays on the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
A “brilliant” look at America’s sixteenth president by the New York Times–bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln (American Historical Review).
First published in 1956 and revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Lincoln Reconsidered is a masterpiece of Civil...
Driven West
Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
By the acclaimed author of the classic Patriots and Union 1812, this major work of narrative history portrays four of the most turbulent decades in the growth of the American nation.
After the War of 1812, President Andrew Jackson and his successors led the country to its manifest destiny across...
The Man Who Saved the Union
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from...
At Canaan's Edge
America in the King Years, 1965-68
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement...
by William Marvel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
An account of how America’s greatest crisis began, by “the Civil War’s master historical detective” (Stephen W. Sears, author of Chancellorsville).
This groundbreaking book investigates the mystery of how the Civil War began, reconsidering the big question: Was it inevitable?
The...
Lincoln's Gamble
The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
“A masterful psychological portrait” (George Stephanopoulos) of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.
On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention...
One Man Great Enough
Abraham Lincoln's Road to Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
From the author of The Class of 1846: “A swift-paced narrative of Lincoln’s pre-presidential life.” —The Washington Post Book World
How did Abraham Lincoln, long held as a paragon of presidential bravery and principled politics, find his way to the White House? How did he become the...
by Francis Fisher Browne
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Abraham Lincoln (18091865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the countrys most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the Westerner who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before...
More Than Freedom
Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is generally...