Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

Recounts the family backgrounds of and the lifelong romance between the author's passionate, independent father, Carl Sandburg, and her beautiful, gifted mother, Lilian Steichen, in addition to offering a profile of renowned American photographer Edward Steichen.

For the first time in paperback--the epic, great American novel about love, tragedy, and the American Dream. Told in a series of flashbacks, this is the story of John Wickliff Shawnessy, who grows up to be the epitome of Civil War-era America. Originally published in 1948. Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life-- from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics...

Dramatic accounts of the Supreme Court impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson.

Mary Todd Lincoln (181882) was a politically ambitious, volatile, and sharp-tongued woman, a shopaholic, and an embarrassment to her son and to the powerful men who sought to control the Lincoln legacy for their own political supremacy. Slandered by former Lincoln cronies and Republican operatives, such as William Herndon, Ward Hill Lamon, and Thurlow Weed; disliked by her sons wife, the former Mary Harlan; plagued by debts, her pension grant having...

Publisher description: After the Civil War the president and the Congress had a unique opportunity to restore the Union on the egalitarian principles of the American Revolution. But from the beginning there was little agreement on how to bind up the nation's wounds and insure the rights of blacks after emancipation. Underlying the dispute was the struggle within the Republican party that pitted Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens against their less...

Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plain-spoken story...

Uses the words of participants and witnesses to describe the Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg.