Allen Guelzo: The Emancipation Proclamation as a Military Document
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The History of Slavery in America
The Coming of the Civil War (1819 - 1860)
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Johns Hopkins University Press)
2009: James M. McPherson
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (Penguin)
Craig L. Symonds
Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War (Oxford University Press)
2008: James Oakes
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (W. W. Norton)
2007: Douglas L. Wilson
Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Alfred A. Knopf)
2006: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Simon & Schuster)
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"I take up my pen": Letters from the Civil War:
Traveling Exhibition: "Looking at Lincoln: Political Cartoons from the Civil War Era." This Exhibition presents political cartoons illustrating how people responded to Abraham Lincoln and his policy of Emancipation, and offers insights into how racism was ingrained into 19th Century American life. These cartoons provide historical context for discussing issues we debate today. (One section four-panel exhibit; 10 running feet). Book an exhibition
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