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Jonathan W White, Timothy Justin Orr
New York City was the center of business, commerce, manufacturing, culture, and war spirit in the North during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln gained an important national audience at the…
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Harold Holzer
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…
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The definitive biography of Daniel Chester French, the artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts.
A comprehensive reference work that, for the first time, makes available to a wide public one of the most important and extensive Civil War resources in the nation: the collections…
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In celebration of the publication of The Union Preserved: A Guide to the Civil War Records in the New York State Archives, the New York State Archives Partnership Trust held…
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As president, Abraham Lincoln received correspondence from public officials, political allies, and military leaders, as well as letters from ordinary Americans of all races. This book includes letters written by…
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln received many letters that expressed the concerns, aspirations, and obsessions of the nation. This collection includes correspondence from ordinary Americans requesting autographs and…
The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 are among the most important statements in American political history, dramatic struggles over…
Abraham Lincoln remained a controversial figure up to the time of his assassination. In this book, the author probes the development of Lincoln’s image and reputation in his own time…
President Lincoln Assassinated!!recaptures the dramatic and terrifying immediacy of Lincoln’s murder and the coordinated attack on Secretary of State William H. Seward, the hunt for the conspirators, their military trial…
An official companion to Steven Spielberg’s movie Lincoln, this riveting history written especially for young readers by Harold Holzer, the Lincoln and Civil War expert, author, and a consultant to…
During the 1880s Louis Prang hired military and marine artists to create original scenes of combat and then reproduced their works in a popular portfolio of chromolithographs. This volume contains…
The Emancipation Proclamation is responsible both for Lincoln’s being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient. Holzer…
An official companion to Steven Spielberg’s movie Lincoln, this riveting history written for young readers by noted Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, explores Abraham Lincoln’s life, his evolving personal and political…
An award-winning presidential historian offers an authoritative account of American presidents’ attacks on our freedom of the press-including a new foreword chronicling the end of the Trump presidency.
The FAKE…
Harold Holzer (External Affairs the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Presenting himself as a compromise presidential candidate to the New York Republican establishment, the little-known westerner gave and later exploited the most successful political speech in the nation’s history.
From noted Lincoln authority Harold Holzer comes his book on president Lincoln’s wholly modern relationship with the press.
Peter Kunhardt,Harold Holzer
First published in 1911, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln was privately printed by Frederick Hill Meserve, the preeminent historian of the photographs of Abraham Lincoln. It was a groundbreaking look…
Harold Holzer,Norton Garfinkle
A bold reassessment of Lincoln and the Civil War, revealing that the principles of economic freedom and a strong federal government inspired Lincoln then-and make his efforts relevant today
The contributors: William C. Davis, Craig Symonds, John Quarstein, David Mindell, Howard Fuller, Mabry Tyson, Joseph Gutierrez, Jeff Johnson, Tim Mulligan, and Harold Holzer.
James A. Percoco
Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. This book chronicles the…
David M. Rubenstein
An illustrated study of Abraham Lincoln's reading life.
Few people in history are written about more than Abraham Lincoln, and deservedly so, for as America's sixteenth president he oversaw both…
On May 1, 1865, two weeks after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, recently inaugurated president Andrew Johnson appointed John Frederick Hartranft to command the military prison at the Washington Arsenal, where the…
Brings together 141 speeches, speech excerpts, letters, fragments, and other writings by Lincoln on the theme of democracy. The writings include such standards as the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg…
Each November, Lincoln and Civil War enthusiasts mark the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address by gathering together for the annual Lincoln forum. This is a selection of the Lincoln Forum…
From the final bloody battles of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the role of freed slaves and Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Americans faced a remarkable…
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 by Ward Hill Lamon remains an essential resource for anyone who wishes to know more about the inner workings of the Lincoln White House, and…
Abraham Lincoln
No U.S. president has faced the problems Lincoln confronted, nor expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great moment. Harold Holzer and Thomas Horrocks explore his writings on slavery…
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Harold Holzer,Dawn Vogel
From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Abraham Lincoln is the most written-about story in our history. This title offers a generation of students, scholars, and citizens…
Comprised of papers delivered at a symposium sponsored by Harvard University’s Houghton Library, the Lincoln Forum, the Lincoln Group of Boston, and the Massachusetts Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission in April…
An eminent Lincoln scholar examines the four months between Lincoln’s election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency–there would be no compromise on…
Joan Marans Dim
In New York’s Golden Age of Bridges, artist Antonio Masi’s paintings and Joan Marans Dim’s text encourage the understanding and appreciation of the art and history of the city’s nine…
Robert Weible,Jennifer A. Lemak,Aaron Noble
Examines the pivotal role New York State played in the Civil War.
Only hours into the new year of 1863, Abraham Lincoln performed perhaps his most famous action as president by signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Rather than remaining the highlight of the…
Harold Holzer,New-York Historical Society
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, a Confederate Palmetto flag, and the…
Craig L. Symonds,Frank J. Williams
Despite the literally thousands of books that have been written about Abraham Lincoln, he continues to fascinate.
Offers the studies and arguments about Lincoln assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction - both religious and secular, as well as the iconography that Lincoln’s murder and deification inspired…
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in US history. In this book, the leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer their studies…
Mark E. Neely, Jr.,Harold Holzer
Offers a glimpse into the private life of Abraham Lincoln and the first family. Showcasing original and unpublished photographs collected and preserved by Mary Todd Lincoln and four generations of…
Harold Holzer,Edna G. Medford,Frank J. Williams,John Hope Franklin
This multilayered treatment reveals that the Emancipation Proclamation remains a singularly brave and bold act - brilliantly calculated to maintain the viability of the Union during wartime, dependent on the…
John Y. Simon
Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserved thanks to the dozens of…
Harold Holzer,G.S. Boritt,Mark E. Neely
Focusing on prints produced in Lincoln’s lifetime and in the iconographically important months immediately following his death, this illustrated volume pairs original photographs and paintings with the prints made from…
