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1809-1865

The frontier years of Abe Lincoln

Richard Kigel

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Good brother, bad brother

James Giblin

Tells the life stories of nineteenth-century actor Edwin Booth and his actor brother John Wilkes Booth, describing the differences between the two men, chronicling John's assassination of Abraham Linc

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Abraham Lincoln

Jim Hargrove

Traces the life of the frontier clerk, storekeeper, lawyer, politician, and Civil War President.

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Lincoln

Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress), Russell Freedman

Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.

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Abraham Lincoln

Lee Morgan

Recounts the life of the dedicated man who survived a difficult childhood, became a lawyer, and as sixteenth president of the United States, guided the country during the Civil War.

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