Filter By Subjects
Constitutional history Founding Fathers of the United States Histoire constitutionnelle États-Unis Hommes d'État États-Unis Biographies Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Political and social views Politics and government Statesmen United States États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1775-1783 États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1783-1809Filter By Authors
Guelzo, Allen C.Filter By Subjects
Constitutional history Founding Fathers of the United States Histoire constitutionnelle États-Unis Hommes d'État États-Unis Biographies Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Political and social views Politics and government Statesmen United States États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1775-1783 États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1783-1809Filter By Authors
Guelzo, Allen C.Guelzo, Allen C.
Summary: Fateful Lightning offers a vivid and original account of an event whose echoes continue with Americans to this day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 GUEGuelzo, Allen C.
Summary: "An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today--by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize. Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Guelzo, Allen C.
Summary: Recounts the Battle of Gettysburg from the perspectives of ordinary soldiers to offer insight into nineteenth-century military practices, the pivotal influence of politics on the battle's course, and the unique characters of artillery units.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7349 GUEGuelzo, Allen C.
Summary: Professor Guelzo looks at Lincoln's life and legacy, from his youth and maturation into a successful lawyer through the evolution of his views on slavery to his presidency and triumphant management of emancipation and the restoration of the union.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINGuelzo, Allen C.
Summary: A survey of the American revolution, from its outbreak at Lexington and Concord in April 1775 until its close with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and the dispersion of the American Continental Army.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 GUE VOL. 1Guelzo, Allen C.
Summary: What carried this one-term congressman from obscurity to fame was his Senate campaign against the country's most formidable politician, Stephen A. Douglas, in the summer and fall of 1858. Lincoln challenged Douglas directly in one of his greatest speeches--"A house divided against itself cannot stand"--and confronted Douglas on the questions of slavery and the inviolability of the Union in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.68 GUEGuelzo, Allen C.
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, ROBERT E. GUESummary: Chronicles the history of the United States from colonial origins to the beginning of the 21st century. Lectures presented by Allen C. Guelzo, Eastern University; Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia; Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 HISCall number: DVD 973 HIS VOL. 1
Call number: DVD 973 HIS VOL. 2
Summary: On the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the editors of Life bring readers everything that has been left to us from the life of one of history's most iconic figures. His pictures, actions, words in his speeches and his private letters are analyzed and pointed inward toward the person, to help us understand the man: the heart and soul of the man. This book is about the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Life Books 2014