Overview :Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merril... Read More
Overview :This book examines the famous Jefferson document that foreshadowed the Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty, the Virginia Statute f... Read More
Overview :Many visitors over the generations have recorded their impressions of Monticello and its creator. These writings, especialy those from Jeffe... Read More
Overview :Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Cal... Read More
Overview :The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position... Read More
Overview :The persecution and suffering of the Armenian people, a religious and cultural minority in the Ottoman Empire, reached a peak in the era of ... Read More
Overview :Few figures hold as mythic a place in America's historical consciousness as John Brown. A fervent abolitionist, his New England reserve temp... Read More
Overview :In this absorbing memoir, Merrill D. Peterson traces his progress from a young Kansas Republican to a "Left Liberal," Democrat by reconstruc... Read More
Overview :Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship. In it Merrill D. Pet... Read More
Overview :As his presidency drew to a close, Woodrow Wilson came to realize the claim history would soon have on the documentary record of his life an... Read More
Overview :Among the founders of the American nation?—the first of the modern world to combine a colonial revolt with a democratic revolutionary ideolo... Read More
Overview :Elegant Easton Press edition of Peterson’s volume on Jefferson. This 1987 printing features red leather boards with gilt lettering and desig... Read More