Lincoln`s Ladder to the Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit, Guy C. Fraker, Michael Burlingame
Автор: Lincoln, Abraham Название: Lincoln`s selected writings ISBN: 0393921794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393921793 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 17940.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bancroft-Prize winning scholar David S. Reynolds introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln`s writings-from earliest days through to his last.
Автор: Jason Emerson Название: Mary Lincoln`s Insanity Case: A Documentary History ISBN: 0252081269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252081262 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 18390.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
In 1875 Mary Lincoln, the widow of a revered president, was committed to an insane asylum by her son, Robert. The trial that preceded her internment was a subject of keen national interest. The focus of public attention since Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, Mary Lincoln had attracted plentiful criticism and visible scorn from much of the public, who perceived her as spoiled, a spendthrift, and even too much of a Southern sympathizer. Widespread scrutiny only increased following her husband's assassination in 1865 and her son Tad's death six years later, after which her overwhelming grief led to the increasingly erratic behavior that led to her being committed to a sanitarium. A second trial a year later resulted in her release, but the stigma of insanity stuck. In the years since, questions emerged with new force, as the populace and historians debated whether she had been truly insane and subsequently cured, or if she was the victim of family maneuvering.
In this volume, noted Lincoln scholar Jason Emerson provides a documentary history of Mary Lincoln's mental illness and insanity case, evenhandedly presenting every possible primary source on the subject to enable a clearer view of the facts. Beginning with documents from the immediate aftermath of her husband's assassination and ending with reminiscences by friends and family in the mid-twentieth century, Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case: A Documentary History compiles more than one hundred letters, dozens of newspaper articles, editorials, and legal documents, and the daily patient progress reports from Bellevue Place Sanitarium during Mary Lincoln's incarceration. Including many materials that have never been previously published, Emerson also collects multiple reminiscences, interviews, and diaries of people who knew Mary Lincoln or were involved in the case, including the first-hand recollection of one of the jurors in the 1875 insanity trial.
Suggesting neither accusation nor exoneration of the embattled First Lady, Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case: A Documentary History gives scholars and history enthusiasts incomparable access to the documents and information crucial to understanding this vexing chapter in American history.
When John Wilkes Booth fired his derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincoln's head, he set in motion a series of dramatic consequences that would upend the lives of ordinary Washingtonians and Americans alike. In a split second, the story of a nation was changed. During the hours that followed, America's future would hinge on what happened in a cramped back bedroom at Petersen's Boardinghouse, directly across the street from Ford's Theatre. There, a twenty-three-year-old surgeon -- fresh out of medical school -- struggled to keep the president alive while Mary Todd Lincoln moaned at her husband's bedside.
In Lincoln's Final Hours, author Kathryn Canavan takes a magnifying glass to the last moments of the president's life and to the impact his assassination had on a country still reeling from a bloody civil war. With vivid, thoroughly researched prose and a reporter's eye for detail, this fast-paced account not only furnishes a glimpse into John Wilkes Booth's personal and political motivations but also illuminates the stories of ordinary people whose lives were changed forever by the assassination.
While countless works on the Lincoln assassination exist, Lincoln's Final Hours moves beyond the well-known traditional accounts, offering readers a front-row seat to the drama and horror of Lincoln's death by putting them in the shoes of the audience in Ford's Theatre that dreadful evening. Through her careful narration of the twists of fate that placed the president in harm's way, of the plotting conversations Booth had with his accomplices, and of the immediate aftermath of the assassination, Canavan illustrates how the experiences of a single night changed the course of history.
Автор: Vicchio Stephen J. Название: Abraham Lincoln`s Religion ISBN: 1532641613 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532641619 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 27590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: D`Amico Michael Francis Название: The True History of Lincoln`s Assassination ISBN: 1943650063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943650064 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 25250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: After reading Lincoln's First Inaugural Address and realizing Lincoln's firm determination to honor the oath that he had taken to "protect and defend" the Constitution of the United States and the Union, the author developed a compelling desire for information pertaining to his assassination. He spent over fourteen years searching the shelves of used-book stores and libraries in the Washington D.C area, including the Library of Congress, for pertinent, fact-based material; accumulating over sixty sources. "The True History of Lincoln's Assassination" is accurate, all-inclusive, and has been reviewed by The Abraham Lincoln Research Library whose assessment is that "... it is very well researched and provides a variety of perspectives that researchers may utilize." It contains many photographs including several that have never before published.
Refusing to side with either the Union or the Confederacy, Great Britain officially declared neutrality in the U.S. Civil War, thereby putting into effect the Foreign Enlistment Act, which forbade all belligerents to arm ships in her ports. Unofficially, many British citizens sympathized with the Confederacy because the Union's naval blockade stopped the flow of cotton from Southern fields to English textile mills. For this reason, the Confederate representative James Bulloch found British shipbuilders willing to fill his orders for battle-ready vessels without inquiring too closely into his intentions.
The U.S. Consul in Liverpool, Thomas Haines Dudley, suspected Bulloch was commissioning warships for an assault on Union naval or commerce ships. Despite his lack of diplomatic experience—President Lincoln had appointed Dudley as a political favor—the consul committed himself to preventing vessels destined for the Confederacy from leaving the shipyards. Dudley hired private detectives, bribed workers, bought sworn affidavits, and provided room and board for turn-coat Confederate sailors willing to furnish evidence that could be used in court.
Confronting innumerable political obstacles and even threats to his life, Dudley served his country faithfully and courageously. He achieved his greatest success years after the war's conclusion when in 1872 an international tribunal awarded the United States $15 million in reparations for the British government's failure to enforce its own neutrality laws. This true account of Dudley's years of service sheds new light on a crucial diplomatic front of the American Civil War.
Автор: Carl Wieck Название: Lincoln`s Quest for Equality: The Road to Gettysburg ISBN: 0875802990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780875802992 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 40040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The "House Divided" speech helped to win Lincoln the presidency; the Gettysburg Address made him an icon. How did Lincoln come to speak the words that would change a nation? Analyzing the ideas and rhetoric in these two crucial speeches, Carl F. Wieck argues that the radical abolitionist movement exerted a significant influence on Lincoln's thought and moral development.
One of the most famous phrases in the Gettysburg Address—"government of the people, by the people, for the people"—was previously associated with Unitarian minister and radical abolitionist Theodore Parker, and Wieck argues that Lincoln's debt to Parker extends far beyond borrowing these few words. Establishing a clear connection between Lincoln and Parker through their mutual friend and Lincoln's law partner, William Herndon, Wieck traces the similarities between Lincoln's key speeches and the philosophy, rhetoric, logic, and ideas found in writings by Parker and other abolitionists.
Ever the cautious politician, Lincoln sought to hide his intellectual and personal connections to the maligned and unpopular abolitionists. The usefulness of such subterfuge became apparent when, after John Brown's attempt to incite a slave revolt, Lincoln could truthfully state that he had no direct contact with radical abolitionists. In the meantime, Lincoln not only drew from Parker's abolitionist propaganda but also was influenced by Daniel Webster, a fervent nationalist who had advocated compromise over slavery in order to preserve the Union. Combining these seemingly contradictory political traditions, Lincoln created a contested middle position that ultimately brought him to the White House.
Tracing the Great Emancipator's political ideology from the antebellum era and culminating at Gettysburg, Lincoln's Quest for Equality sheds new light on the intellectual development of the president who reshaped American political culture.
Автор: Cox E. S. Название: Lincoln`s Negro Policy ISBN: 1646065689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781646065684 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11570.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Contrary to popular belief, Abraham Lincoln--and many other famous American politicians and Founding Fathers--regarded total physical racial separation and the repatriation of all blacks back to Africa as the only solution to America's racial problems.
This work shows--from Lincoln's speeches and actions--that he never considered the integration of blacks into American society as an option, and repeatedly told "free Negroes" that their true destiny lay outside of America, in a "colony" of their own, either in Africa or elsewhere in the Caribbean or South America.
Even Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation contained the demand that blacks be sent back to a colony outside the U.S., as this study shows.
This repatriation plan was also supported by millions of blacks. The black organizations and leadership--including Paul Cuffe, Henry M. Turner, Marcus Garvey, and M. M. L. Gordon--are also reviewed in this riveting work.
Lincoln was in fact making plans to establish a colony in Africa for blacks only days before he was assassinated.
This book also studies the work of the American Colonization Society, set up to promote the repatriation policy, and whose members included numerous American presidents such as James Monroe, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln.
This edition has been completely reset and hand-edited. It contains 11 illustrations and is fully indexed.
About the author: Earnest Sevier Cox (January 24, 1880-April 26, 1966) was a US Army Lieutenant Colonel and World War I veteran who was also one of the most influential writers on race in America right up until his death. In 1922 Cox and composer John Powell founded the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America in Richmond, Virginia. They were successful in passing Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 outlawing miscegenation. The law was only overturned by the United States Supreme Court in 1967.
Автор: Marvel, William Название: Lincoln`s autocrat ISBN: 1469636158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469636153 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's Secretary of War during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a detailed reexamination of Stanton's life, career, and legacy. Marvel argues that while Stanton was a formidable advocate and politician, his character was hardly benign. Climbing from a difficult youth to the pinnacle of power, Stanton used his authority - and the public coffers - to pursue political vendettas, and he exercised sweeping wartime powers with a cavalier disregard for civil liberties. Though Lincoln's ability to harness a cabinet with sharp divisions and strong personalities is widely celebrated, Marvel suggests that Stanton's tenure raises important questions about Lincoln's actual control over the executive branch. This insightful biography also reveals why men like Ulysses S. Grant considered Stanton a coward and a bully, who was unashamed to use political power for partisan enforcement and personal preservation.
Автор: Seabrook Lochlainn Название: Lincoln`s War: The Real Cause, the Real Winner, the Real Loser ISBN: 1943737371 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943737376 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 28190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Paul D. Escott Название: Lincoln`s Dilemma: Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era ISBN: 0813939836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813939834 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 22170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. In this fascinating new book Paul Escott considers the evolution of the president`s thoughts on race in relation to three other, powerful - and often conflicting - voices.
Автор: Eggleston Название: President Lincoln`S Recruiter ISBN: 0786472170 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786472178 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Historians have often marginalised the effect of African American troops on the outcome of the Civil War. While many histories briefly mention the service of the blacks, few reveal their impact. Lorenzo Thomas was one of the most exceptional people to serve in that war, but no biography of his life has been written. Most of his career was spent as an administrator in the U. S. Army, from his graduation from West Point in 1823 until the start of the war when he was the army's Adjutant General. His life changed when he was charged by Secretary of War Stanton to go West and recruit troops for the Union that were desperately needed. Stanton and Thomas did not get along and with pressure mounting to get more troops, Stanton saw this as an opportunity to get Thomas out of Washington. Thomas did exceptionally well in recruiting tens of thousands of troops for the Union. After the war ended, President Andrew Johnson replaced Stanton with Thomas as temporary Secretary of War. This precipitated the impeachment hearings against Johnson and some say that the testimony of Thomas caused the impeachment of Johnson to be dismissed.
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