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1) Lincoln
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
3) Lincoln
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Abraham Lincoln during the last months of the American Civil War and his fight to pass the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 606 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
On the eve of his fifty-second birthday, February 11, 1861, the president-elect of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, walked onto a train in Springfield, Illinois , the first step of a 1,900 mile journey to the White House, and his rendezvous with destiny.--from book jacket.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 9
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
"September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: save thousands of American lives, or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever? The present: In Utah, the fabled remains of Mormon pioneers whose...
Author
Description
"Upon his election as President of the troubled United States, Abraham Lincoln faced a dilemma. He knew it was time for slavery to go, but how fast could the country change without being torn apart? Many abolitionists wanted Lincoln to move quickly, overturning the founding documents along the way. But Lincoln believed there was a way to extend equality to all while keeping and living up to the Constitution that he loved so much-if only he could buy...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Description
Looks at the life of Abraham Lincoln, a farmer boy who grew up to become the sixteenth president of the United States and the man responsible for leading the country through the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hrs., 40 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Everyone knows about Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but not everyone knows there was also a conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, DC, for his first inauguration. The conspirators were part of a secret society that didn't want an abolitionist in the highest office. They planned an elaborate scheme to assassinate the brand new President in Baltimore as Lincoln's Inauguration train was headed...
11) The conspirator
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President and others. Against the ominous backdrop of post-Civil War Washington, war hero Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy) reluctantly agrees to defend the lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), before a military tribunal. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save...
12) The zealot and the emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom
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Formats
Description
"What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to do whatever was necessary...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxix, 733 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Examines Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the press, arguing that he used such intimidation and manipulation techniques as closing down dissenting newspapers, pampering favoring newspaper men, and physically moving official telegraph lines.
14) The Civil War
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1990.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (700 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 884 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"The High Command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. President...
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