Overview :In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at... Read More
Overview :In Lincoln and the Civil War, Michael Burlingame explores the experiences and qualities that made Abraham Lincoln one of America's most reve... Read More
Overview : Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been... Read More
Overview :Published to a flurry of praise--and consternation--from Lincoln scholars, Burlingame's book takes a hard and unsentimental look at, among o... Read More
Overview :An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic stor... Read More
Overview :John Hay believed that real history is told in private letters, and the more than 220 surviving letters and telegrams from his Civil War day... Read More
Overview :Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013 editionSuperior Achievement by the Illinois State Historical Society, 2013 Thro... Read More
Overview :Publishers Weekly describes this book as "the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive ... Read More
Overview :In 1890 Abraham Lincoln's two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln... Read More
Overview :Between Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and his departure for Washington three months later, journalist Henry Villard sent score... Read More
Overview :Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice... Read More
Overview :"Hold On with a Bulldog Grip and Chew and Choke as Much as Possible" The Grand Offensive: (May-August 1864): The Spring Offensive is launche... Read More
Overview :"Go Forward, and Give Us Victories" From the Mud March to Gettysburg: (January-July 1863): Dissatisfaction with the Emancipation Proclamatio... Read More
Overview :In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at... Read More
Overview :On 18 April 1861, assistant presidential secretary John Hay recorded in his diary the report of several women that "some young Virginian lon... Read More
Overview :"Hold On with a Bulldog Grip and Chew and Choke as Much as Possible" The Grand Offensive: (May-August 1864): The Spring Offensive is launche... Read More