age ~65
from Beverly Hills, CA
The James A. Rawley Prize is an annual book award made by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). The award goes to the best book dealing with the...
ISBN #
7
As the Civil War raged, President Abraham Lincoln spent many hours in the War Department’s telegraph office, where he received all his telegrams. Morning, noon, and night Lincoln would visit the small office to receive the latest news from the armies at the front. The place was a refuge for the pres...
Author
David Homer Bates
Binding
Paperback
Pages
432
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN #
080326125X
EAN Code
9780803261259
ISBN #
19
The words of Abraham Lincoln have been immortalized in speeches and enshrined in policies and practices, and none of those words, spoken or written, has gone unnoticed or wanted for a response. It is this broader context—the wider conversation about Lincoln’s words—that this book discusses. The fina...
Author
James A. Rawley
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
640
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN #
0803249969
EAN Code
9780803249967
ISBN #
18
The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European Commercial Revolution. James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical discussion of the slave trade from the fifteenth...
Author
James A. Rawley, Stephen D. Behrendt
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
448
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN #
0803239610
EAN Code
9780803239616
ISBN #
17
“I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons. And yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which, I am not quite satisfied with you.”With this opening sentence in a two-page le...
Author
Walter H. Hebert
Binding
Paperback
Pages
366
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN #
0803273231
EAN Code
9780803273238
ISBN #
16
An associate of Abraham Lincoln offers an intimate view of the president’s relations with military men and top politicians, placing particular emphasis on the election campaigns of 1860 and 1864.A. K.McClure, a Republican powerbroker and later editor of the Philadelphia Times, reveals how Lincoln re...
Author
A. K. McClure
Binding
Paperback
Pages
496
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
0803282281
EAN Code
9780803282285
ISBN #
15
Abraham Lincoln "was a tall, spare man, with large bones, and towering up to six feet and four inches. He leaned forward, and stooped as he walked. . . . There was no grace in his movements, but an expression of awkwardness, combined withforce and vigor. By nature he was diffident, and when in crowd...
Author
Isaac N. Arnold
Binding
Paperback
Pages
471
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
0803259247
EAN Code
9780803259249
ISBN #
14
Race and Politics offers an analysis of the controversies that followed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The question of whether the still unsettled Kansas Territory should be slave or free divided the nation into hostile and ultimately irreconcilable camps, creating conditions that only civil...
Author
James A. Rawley
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN #
0803289014
EAN Code
9780803289017
ISBN #
4
In London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade, James A. Rawley collects some of his best works from the past three decades. Also included in this volume are three new pieces: an essay on a South Carolina slave trader, Henry Laurens; an analysis of the slave trade at the beginning of the eighteenth centur...
Author
James A. Rawley
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
216
Publisher
University of Missouri
ISBN #
0826214835
EAN Code
9780826214836
ISBN #
3