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  • An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd

    An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd

    by Michael Burlingame

    An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln&’s marriage to Mary Todd.Abraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded &“connubial bliss&” as an untenable fantasy. During t... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2021
  • Abraham Lincoln: A Life

    Abraham Lincoln: A Life

    by Michael Burlingame

    This award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.Named One of the 5 Best Books of 2009 by The AtlanticNamed One of the 10 Top Lincoln Books by Chicago Tribune Winner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in U.S. History and Biography/Autobiography, Association of American... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2008
  • Abraham Lincoln: A Life

    Abraham Lincoln: A Life

    by Michael Burlingame

    Now in paperback, this award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.Named One of the 10 Top Lincoln Books by Chicago TribuneNamed One of the 5 Best Books of 2009 by The AtlanticWinner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in U.S. History and Biography/Autobiography, Associ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2008
  • Abraham Lincoln: A Life

    Abraham Lincoln: A Life

    by Michael Burlingame

    Now in paperback, this award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorpor... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2008
  • The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality

    The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality

    by Michael Burlingame

    Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president&” as well as &“the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country.&” This narrative history of Lincoln&’s personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixt... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2021
  • Lincoln's Old Friends of Menard County, Illinois

    Lincoln's Old Friends of Menard County, Illinois

    by Dale Thomas • Michael Burlingame

    At the age of twenty-two, Abraham Lincoln arrived in New Salem, Illinois, as a "strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy" (in his own words). He did not remain friendless for long. Meet the community that welcomed him: Bennett and Elizabeth Abell, the couple who guided him through heartache; M... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2012
  • Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America

    Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America

    by Catherine Clinton • William L. Andrews • Lesley J. Gordon • John C. Inscoe • Marcus Rediker • John F. Marszalek • John David Smith • Graham Hodges • Matthew Stanley • Diane Miller Sommerville • Michael Burlingame • Joseph Beilein • Matthew C. Hulbert • Brian Rouleau • Tom Lee • Kenneth Greenberg • Jonathon Sarris • Ryan Keating • Donna Barbie • Allison Dorsey • Stephen Whitfield • Nicole Etcheson • Drew Swanson • James Crisp • Kevin Waite • Jacob Lee

    Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge at... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2019
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