Harold Holzer
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and in conjunction with the Library of Congress 2009 Bicentennial Exhibition, In Lincoln’s Hand offers an unprecedented look at perhaps our greatest president through vivid images of his handwritten letters, speeches, and even childhood notebooks—many never before made available to the public.
Edited by leading Lincoln scholars Joshua Wolf Shenk and Harold...
Edited by leading Lincoln scholars Joshua Wolf Shenk and Harold...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 380 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 beliefs about slavery, and his genius that led to ending the Civil War, re-uniting the country, and ensuring passage of the 13th Amendment that ended slavery in America"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xx, 554 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating slavery or a defense of the Union, they argue, Lincoln's guiding principle was the defense of equal economic opportunity. Lincoln firmly believed that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is America's best-known sculptor of public monuments. Monument Man is the first comprehensive biography of this fascinating figure and his illustrious career. Full of rich detail and beautiful archival photographs, Monument Man is a nuanced study of a preeminent artist whose evolution...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 1,230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An anthology of excerpts from the four-volume classic "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" features first-hand recollections by the Civil War's commanders and subordinates on both sides, with commentary by such leading scholars as James McPherson and Joan Waugh.
14) Lincoln on war
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
16) President Lincoln assassinated!!: the firsthand story of the murder, manhunt, trial, and mourning
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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, and the unprecedented national mourning for our first martyred president. The story is told through more than eighty original documents ... [and] by more than seventy-five participants and observers, including the assassin John...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 604 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
No American president before or since has faced the problems that confronted Abraham Lincoln when he took office in 1861. Nor has any president expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great moment. Lincoln's writings reveal the depth of his thought and feeling and the sincerity of his convictions as he weighed the cost of freedom and preserving the Union. Now for the first time an annotated edition of Lincoln's essential writings examines...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xi, 196 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of writings includes images of a variety of handwritten speeches, letters, and childhood notebooks, accompanied by commentary by James M. McPherson, Ken Burns, Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Updike, Toni Morrison, and other notables.
