Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781402742880

Presents the life of the Civil War president, detailing his childhood, his education, career as a lawyer and legislator, his marriage, political campaigns, presidential years, and assassination.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 736
Release: 1939
Genre: United States
ISBN:

These volumes complete the biography of Lincoln which the author began in "The prairie years." It covers the years from 1861 until Lincoln's death. Contains many illustrations including cuts of cartoons, letters and documents.

Death on the Prairie

Death on the Prairie
Author: Paul Iselin Wellman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780803297210

Death on the Prairie is a sweeping narrative history of the Indian wars on the western plains that never loses sight of the individual actors. Beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in 1862, Paul I. Wellman shifts to conflicts in present-day Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and South Dakota, involving, most spectacularly, the Sioux, but also the Cheyennes, Arapahos, Comanches, Kiowas, Utes, and Nez Perces—all being ezed out of their hunting grounds by white settlers. There is never a quiet page as Wellman describes the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), the Fetterman Massacre (1866), the Battle of the Washita (1868), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1874), the Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876), the Nez Perce War (1877), the Meeker Massacre (1879), and the tragedy at wounded Knee (1890) that ended the fighting on the plains. Celebrated chiefs (Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Black Kettle, Satanta, Joseph, Ouray, Sitting Bull) clash with army officers (notably Custer, Sheridan, Miles, and Crook), and uncounted men, women, and children on both sides are cast in roles of fatal consequence.

Storm Over the Land

Storm Over the Land
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: Ecco
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-04
Genre: United States
ISBN: 9780156011297

Taken mainly from Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. 60 halftones from photographs; 98 drawings, maps, and sketches.

Our Year of War

Our Year of War
Author: Daniel P. Bolger
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0306903245

Two brothers -- Chuck and Tom Hagel -- who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle platoon. Together they fought in the Mekong Delta, battled snipers in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the other's life under fire. But when their one-year tour was over, these two brothers came home side-by-side but no longer in step -- one supporting the war, the other hating it. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his brother Tom epitomized the best, and withstood the worst, of the most tumultuous, shocking, and consequential year in the last half-century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war -- a gritty, poignant, and resonant story of a family and a nation divided yet still united.

Abe Lincoln Grows Up

Abe Lincoln Grows Up
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1928
Genre: Presidents
ISBN:

Adapted from the author's Abraham Lincoln: the prairie years, this narrative covers Lincoln's early life, up until he left home at age nineteen.

Always the Young Strangers

Always the Young Strangers
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2015-10-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0544784014

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir. Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature. In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life around the turn of the twentieth century and an invaluable perspective on American history.

The History of Wisconsin, Volume II

The History of Wisconsin, Volume II
Author: Richard N. Current
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Total Pages: 701
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 087020629X

This second volume in the History of Wisconsin series introduces us to the first generation of statehood, from the conversion of prairie and forests into farmland to the development of cities and industry. In addition, this volume presents a synthesis of the Civil War and Reconstruction era in Wisconsin. Scarcely a decade after entering the Union, the state was plunged into the nationwide debate over slavery, the secession crisis, and a war in which 11,000 "Badger Boys in Blue" gave their lives. Wisconsin's role in the Civil War is chronicled, along with the post-war years. Complete with photographs from the Historical Society's collections, as well as many pertinent maps, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in this era of Wisconsin's history.

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg
Author: Penelope Niven
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
Total Pages: 896
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Follows the life and career of poetbiographer Carl Sandburg.