Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries).

Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which Gore Vidal combines a comprehensive knowledge of Civil War America with 20th-century literary technique, probing the minds and motives of the men surrounding Abraham Lincoln, including personal secretary John Hay and scheming cabinet members William Seward and Salmon P. Chase, as well as his wife, Mary Todd.

For the first time in paperback--the epic, great American novel about love, tragedy, and the American Dream. Told in a series of flashbacks, this is the story of John Wickliff Shawnessy, who grows up to be the epitome of Civil War-era America. Originally published in 1948. Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life-- from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics...

Here is the best-selling history of an American city like no other -- and of the vibrant people who built it. The Yankees who came west to gamble fortunes on the Board of Trade, the Swifts and Amours, Fields and McCormicks, and the new immigrants who worked in their stockyards, stores and railroads -- together and at odds they built Chicago out of the prairie mud, and built it again when the Great Fire destroyed it. This is a story of political turmoil,...

A biography of Walt Whitman providing insight into his childhood, relationships, career, and major written works. Focuses on the ways in which Whitman expressed his philosophies and ideologies in his everyday life and poetry. Includes several photographs taken from throughout Whitman's life.

Interweaves the lives of these two historical figures in their early years before the Civil War, in their roles as determined adversaries, and in their later lives when they continued to be involved in their nation's fate.

Examines the life of General Robert E. Lee and the previous writings about him.

A simple biography of the Civil War president.

A biography of the sixteenth President of the United States, covering both his personal and public life.

Of the two dozen separate armies organized by the Confederacy, the author compares two, the Army of North Virginia and the Army of Tennessee in this essay of Confederate Military History.

Provides brief biographies of the American presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush.