"Did Abraham Lincoln hate his father so much that he would not visit him on his deathbed or buy him a tombstone? Is it true that Ann Rutledge, who died tragically young, was the real love of his life? Was President Lincoln secretly aligned with the Sioux against US agents during the Dakota War of 1862? Was the Great Emancipator a white supremacist? Noted historian and Lincoln expert Edward Steers Jr. sets the record straight in this engaging and authoritative...

When their grandfather invents a time machine, Matt and Emily, accompanied by their scientific genius friend Jonathan, journey back to the night when President Lincoln was shot, hoping to prevent the assassination.

Behind the Scenes is the life story of Elizabeth Keckley, a shrewd entrepreneur who, while enslaved, raised enough money to purchase freedom for herself and her son. Keckley moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a seamstress and dressmaker for the wives of influential politicians. She eventually became a close confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. Several years after President Lincoln's assassination, when Mrs. Lincoln's financial situation had...

From his deathbed in 1900, John Bingham, the prosecutor of the John Wilkes Booth conspirators, reveals there was a deeper secret to the Lincoln assassination, but takes that secret to his grave, fearing the truth could threaten the republic. Obsessed by those deathbed statements, Jamie Fraser, an Ohio country doctor, sets out to find the truth and joins forces with Speed Cook, a wary African-American, the last black man to play baseball in the big...

"A murder aboard a steamboat forces Abraham Lincoln to make a fateful choice--one on which the future of the nation may hang, if his client doesn't first--" -- provided by publisher.

Describes the events of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 as seen through the eyes of two actual participants, nineteen-year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and seventeen-year-old Union soldier Thomas Galway. Also discusses Lincoln's famous speech delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.

"The first full-color facsimile edition of Lincoln's private notes, Abraham Lincoln's Diary is a deluxe collection of some of his most revelatory private writings. An essential archive, here presented exactly as Lincoln wrote them on scraps of paper, these "notes to self" appear alongside original, contextualizing essays by New York Times bestselling presidential biographer Ronald C. White. A deeply private man, closed off to even those who worked...

A young Abe Lincoln stumbles across a pig in trouble and decides he must help, even though it will mean arriving late and muddy for the important speech he is scheduled to make.

Brothers Willie and Taddie share stories about their father, Abraham Lincoln, from 1859 to 1865.