Harold Holzer
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Offers a visual perspective on the Civil War as reflected by artifacts ranging from a soldier's footlocker and the Emancipation Proclamation to leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier and Grant's handwritten terms of surrender at Appomattox.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An examination of the death of President Lincoln shows the conditions of the time that led to the tragic event at Ford's Theater, and why those who hated Lincoln sought such horrifying revenge.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning presidential historian offers an authoritative account of American presidents' attacks on our freedom of the press. "The FAKE NEWS media," Donald Trump has tweeted, "is not my enemy. It is the enemy of the American people." Never has our free press faced so great a threat. Yet the tension between presidents and journalists is as old as the republic itself. From George Washington to Trump, presidents have quarreled with, attacked,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
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 the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation's demographics, culture, and--perhaps most significantly--voting patterns. America's newest residents fueled the national economy, but they...
14) Judging Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English