Steven E Woodworth
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth." Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves but also survival of self-government in the last place on earth where it could have the opportunity of developing freely.
Noted historian Steven E. Woodworth tells...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping history of the 1840s that captures America's enormous sense of possibility and shows how the extraordinary expansion of territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep rift that would bring war just a decade later.
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Circumstances point to a high-ranking Confederate official giving an order for Lincoln's assassination to his Canadian couriers John Surratt and Sarah Slater, putting John Wilkes Booth as plan B. The author argues that this official was the real culprit in this plot. The director of Surratt House Museum assisted with the author's research"--