A gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom.   An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861   Includes black-and-white photos and illustrations.

"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...

-- New York Times   Meet Underground Railroad abductor Harriet Tubman in this installment of the -- One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale -- Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale -- Lafayette!:A Revolutionary War TaleMajor Impossible:A Grand Canyon TaleBlades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana PurchaseCold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #11)

From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac.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...

-- The best-selling authors of Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original 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 pro-Southern secret society that didn't want an antislavery President in the White House. They planned an elaborate scheme to assassinate the brand new President in Baltimore...

When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Vice-President Andrew Johnson became “the Accidental President”, it was a dangerous time in America. Congress was divided over how the Union should be reunited: when and how the secessionist South should regain full status, whether former Confederates should be punished, and when and whether black men should be given the vote. Devastated by war and resorting to violence, many white Southerners hoped to...

"In 1873 the people of Labette County in Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried on a homestead seven miles south of the town of Cherryvale, in a bloodied cellar and under frost-covered soil, were countless bodies in varying states of decay. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for over two decades, and the land on which the crimes took place became known as 'Hells Half-Acre.' When it emerged that...

Documents the experiences, influence, and contributions of the women of Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.