Some of America's foremost historians—including James M. McPherson, Allan Nevins, and Stephen B. Oates—recount the extraordinary life of Abraham Lincoln in this collection of the best essays from sixty years of American Heritage. Lincoln, the book argues, ". . . evolved into nothing less than an apostle for the sanctity of the Union, the ethic of majority rule, and the dreams of freedom and equality of opportunity. Who could have so predicted when Lincoln had seemed the least qualified candidate for the presidency?"
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The Windrush Scandal: The History of the Modern Controversy and Race Relations in the British Empire
Ancient Rome : A Concise Overview of the Roman History and Mythology Including the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Splendid and the Vile : A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz
Powers and Thrones : A New History of the Middle Ages
The Plantagenets : The Kings Who Made England
The Siege of Vienna (1529): The History and Legacy of the Decisive Battle that Prevented the Ottoman Empire’s Expansion into Western Europe
Summer of Blood : The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
Hymns of the Republic : The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
The Envoy
The Third Reich : A History of Nazi Germany
Desert Fox : The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel
Crusaders
Remarkable Women of the Finger Lakes
San Diego Lowriders : A History of Cars and Cruising
New England Rocks : Historic Geological Wonders
The Jefferson Highway in Oklahoma: The Historic Osage Trace
Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes
Enslavement and the Underground Railroad in Missouri and Illinois
Philadelphia's King of Little Italy : C.C.A. Baldi & His Brothers
Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina
A History of Nebraska Agriculture: A Life Worth Living
Out in Evansville : An LGBTQ+ History of River City
Native American History of Washington, DC
Irish Iowa