Thomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOMeacham, Jon
Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINMeacham, Jon
Summary: "A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM MEACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LINCOLN MEAFeldman, Noah
Summary: "An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021