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  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas ...
    Series series Civil War
    Complete texts for all 7 debates between the incumbent Democratic senator from Illinois and the 1858 nominee of the infant Republican party. Paving the way for modern debates between political candidates, the events brought Lincoln (who lost the election) to national prominence and helped propel him to the presidency in 1860. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: American History
    One of the most significant and far-reaching events in U. S. history, the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 sharpened and brought to a head a number of crucial questions concerning slavery, states' rights, the legal status of blacks, and the effects of the Dred Scott decision. The debates were held as part of the campaign for the Illinois senatorial seat, pitting the two-term incumbent, Democrat ... Read more

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  • Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 1 1832-1858 (LOA #45)

    by Abraham Lincoln ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America Abraham Lincoln Edition
    Abraham lincoln measured the promise—and cost—of American freedom in lucid and extraordinarily moving prose, famous for its native wit, simple dignity of expressions, and peculiarly American flavor. This volume, with its companion, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writing 1859–1865, comprises the most comprehensive selection ever published. over 240 speeches, letters, and drafts take Lincoln from ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

    Edited by Harold Holzer ...
    The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 are among the most important statements in American political history, dramatic struggles over the issues that would tear apart the nation in the Civil War: the virtues of a republic and the evils of slavery.In this acclaimed book, Holzer brings us as close as possible to what Lincoln and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Portable Abraham Lincoln

    by Abraham Lincoln ...
    Celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writingsAbraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the writer's art. The Portable ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Gettysburg Address

    by Abraham Lincoln ...
    The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

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  • Abraham Lincoln

    His Speeches And Writings

    by Roy Basler, Carl Sandburg ...
    This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces-the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican Convention Speech, the Emancipation Proclamation-but hundreds of lesser-known gems. Alfred Kazin has written that Lincoln was "not just the greatest writer among our Presidents . . ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson – History Of The First Attempt to Impeach the President of The United States & The Trial that Followed

    One-Vote Trial

    by Edmund G. Ross ...
    Little is now known to the general public of the history of the attempt to remove President Andrew Johnson in 1868, on his impeachment by the House of Representatives and trial by the Senate for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors in office, or of the causes that led to it. Yet it was one of the most important and critical events, involving possibly the gravest consequences, in the entire history ... Read more

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  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4 The Lincoln-Douglas debates

    by Abraham Lincoln, Arthur Brooks Lapsley ...
    LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:— It will be very difficult for an audience so large as this to hear distinctly what a speaker says, and consequently it is important that as profound silence be preserved as possible. ... Read more

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  • The Real Cause of the Civil War

    by Jack L. Pennington ...
    The Civil War that so devastated the United States began a century and a half ago; even so, people continue to disagree on why the North and South went to war. By examining President Abraham Lincolns speeches, along with those of other politicians during the time period, it is possible to identify historical misrepresentations and distortions that have made their way into textbooks. Author Jack ... Read more

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  • John Marshall and the Constitution

    by Edward S. Corwin ...
    This edition features a linked Table of Contents.CONTENTSI. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL JUDICIARYII. MARSHALL'S EARLY YEARSIII. JEFFERSON'S WAR ON THE JUDICIARYIV. THE TRIAL OF AARON BURRV. THE TENETS OF NATIONALISMVI. THE SANCTITY OF CONTRACTSVII. THE MENACE OF STATE RIGHTSVIII. AMONG FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORSIX. EPILOGUEBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ... Read more

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  • History of Woman Suffrage Vol 2

    by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, And Matilda Joslyn Gage ...
    "In presenting to our readers, the second volume of the “History of Woman Suffrage,” we gladly return our thanks to the press for the many favorable notices we have received from leading journals, both in the old world and the new. The words of cordial approval from a large circle of friends, and especially from women well known in periodical literature, have been to us a constant stimulus during ... Read more

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