— Lincoln Prize 9 Titles found
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Lincoln
A Life of Purpose and Power
Written by Richard Carwardine
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise to greatness is as complex as it is compelling.
In this superb, prize-winning biography, acclaimed historian Richard Carwardine... Read more >
A Life of Purpose and Power
Written by Richard Carwardine
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise to greatness is as complex as it is compelling.
In this superb, prize-winning biography, acclaimed historian Richard Carwardine... Read more >
Lincoln
A Life of Purpose and Power
Written by Richard Carwardine
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $27.50
An original and deeply insightful biography of Abraham Lincoln, already awarded the prestigious Lincoln Prize.
As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise to greatness is as... Read more >
A Life of Purpose and Power
Written by Richard Carwardine
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $27.50
An original and deeply insightful biography of Abraham Lincoln, already awarded the prestigious Lincoln Prize.
As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise to greatness is as... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Saving Savannah
The City and the Civil War
Written by Jacqueline Jones
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $30.00
A panoramic portrait of the city of Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War—a poignant story of the African American freedom struggle in this prosperous southern riverport, set against a backdrop of military conflict and political turmoil. Jacqueline Jones, prizewinning author of the groundbreaking Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow,... Read more >
The City and the Civil War
Written by Jacqueline Jones
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $30.00
A panoramic portrait of the city of Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War—a poignant story of the African American freedom struggle in this prosperous southern riverport, set against a backdrop of military conflict and political turmoil. Jacqueline Jones, prizewinning author of the groundbreaking Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow,... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
What This Cruel War Was Over
Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
Written by Chandra Manning
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $15.95
A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root of the war, how the conflict changed troops’ ideas about slavery, and what those changing ideas meant for the war and the nation.
Using soldiers’ letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers, Chandra Manning allows us to accompany soldiers—black... Read more >
Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
Written by Chandra Manning
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $15.95
A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root of the war, how the conflict changed troops’ ideas about slavery, and what those changing ideas meant for the war and the nation.
Using soldiers’ letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers, Chandra Manning allows us to accompany soldiers—black... Read more >
President Lincoln
The Duty of a Statesman
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $16.95
The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. William Lee Miller’s new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.
Wars waged by American presidents have come to... Read more >
The Duty of a Statesman
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $16.95
The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. William Lee Miller’s new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.
Wars waged by American presidents have come to... Read more >
The Destructive War
William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
Written by Charles Royster
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: January 11, 1993
Price: $18.95
Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Lincoln Prize, and Charles Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association
Through the biographies of two of the Civil War’s most important generals, Royster explores the massive violence the war unleashed—a violence that went quickly and completely out of control and far beyond the expectations of... Read more >
William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
Written by Charles Royster
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: January 11, 1993
Price: $18.95
Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Lincoln Prize, and Charles Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association
Through the biographies of two of the Civil War’s most important generals, Royster explores the massive violence the war unleashed—a violence that went quickly and completely out of control and far beyond the expectations of... Read more >
Peculiar Institution
Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
Written by Kenneth M. Stampp
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 17, 1989
Price: $16.00
Winner of the Lincoln Prize
Stampp’s classic study of American slavery as a deliberately chosen, practical system of controlling and exploiting labor is one of the most important and influential works of American history written in our time.
“A thoughtful and deeply moving book. . . . Mr. Stampp wants to show... Read more >
Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
Written by Kenneth M. Stampp
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 17, 1989
Price: $16.00
Winner of the Lincoln Prize
Stampp’s classic study of American slavery as a deliberately chosen, practical system of controlling and exploiting labor is one of the most important and influential works of American history written in our time.
“A thoughtful and deeply moving book. . . . Mr. Stampp wants to show... Read more >
The Civil War
An Illustrated History
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns and Ken Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 452 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1992
Price: $29.95
This edition is fully illustrated with maps, photos, and hundreds of other images which enhance the overall reading and learning experience. Ward's acclaimed narrative history (based on the PBS television series) interweaves the authors' narrative with the voices of the participants, from politicians and officers to soldiers and civilians on both... Read more >
An Illustrated History
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns and Ken Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 452 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1992
Price: $29.95
This edition is fully illustrated with maps, photos, and hundreds of other images which enhance the overall reading and learning experience. Ward's acclaimed narrative history (based on the PBS television series) interweaves the authors' narrative with the voices of the participants, from politicians and officers to soldiers and civilians on both... Read more >
Honor's Voice
The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
Written by Douglas L. Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 25, 1999
Price: $15.95
A New York Times Notable Book of 1998
Abraham Lincoln’s remarkable emergence from the rural Midwest and his rise to the presidency have been the stuff of romance and legend. But as Douglas L. Wilson shows us in Honor's Voice, Lincoln’s transformation was not one long triumphal march, but a process that... Read more >
The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
Written by Douglas L. Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 25, 1999
Price: $15.95
A New York Times Notable Book of 1998
Abraham Lincoln’s remarkable emergence from the rural Midwest and his rise to the presidency have been the stuff of romance and legend. But as Douglas L. Wilson shows us in Honor's Voice, Lincoln’s transformation was not one long triumphal march, but a process that... Read more >
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