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A dual biography of Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary, using photographs, letters, engravings, and cartoons to look at their childhoods, courtship, marriage, children, and other joys and traumas of their years together, including their deaths.

Examines how Abraham Lincoln's interest in technology played a role in the outcome of the Civil War; and explains how the telegraph, railroads, surveillance balloons, and other inventions helped the North win the war and rebuild the economy.

Presents a comic book style depiction of the Battle of Gettysburg; the national movement to create a memorial at the battle site; and the day of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863, drawn from first-person letters, speeches, and other primary sources.

Recounts the twelve-day pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth, covering the chase through Washington D.

Contains over one hundred images of the life of Abraham Lincoln that provide a portrait of his presidency and the events surrounding it.

In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Presents a short biography on the sixteen president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and chronicles his childhood, early days as a lawyer in Illinois, and presidency through the Civil War.

In 1966 Illinois, twelve-year-old Wilhelmina, convinced that she, her parents, and sisters are Abraham Lincoln's family reincarnated, determines to keep them from suffering the same fates, which is complicated when she and her father become involved in the Civil Rights Movement.

Presents the text of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with period illustrations and contemporary photographs.

An exploration of slavery in the United States that discusses its importance to the southern states, laws, Abraham Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation, " and other related topics.

Key victories at Gettysburg in the North and Vicksburg in the South gave Union forces the upper hand in summer 1863, but the long Civil War was far from over as it would take nearly two more years and thousands of lives before the bloody conflict would come to an end.

Provides biographical information about six individuals who were key players in the Civil War, including Abraham Lincoln, Robert E.

Examines the family life of Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary against the backdrop of the Civil War, depicts their devastating loss of three of their four sons, and describes the surviving son's insecurity about his parents' love.

Contains 185 stereoscopic photographs of Abraham Lincoln, as well as the people, places, and events of his presidency, and features a narrative history of Lincoln's time in office.

Discusses how Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, was blamed for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and describes how the hunt for Davis continued even after Lincoln's body was put in its final resting place.