Essays from the Lincoln Forum includes the latest essays by the nation's most influencial scholars on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and his diverse roles as military leader, family man, communicator, and icon. (History)

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Product Description: Inaugurated for a second term on March 4, 1873, Ulysses S. Grant gave an address that was both inspiring and curiously bitter. He told the assembled crowd, "It is my firm conviction that the civilized world is tending towards republicanism, or government by the people through their chosen representatives, and that our own great republic is destined to be the guiding star to all others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The story of John A. Logan's famed Civil War regiment, told by its veterans, follows its troops through the battles of Belmont, Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Kenesaw Mountain, and Atlanta through the March to the Sea and into North Carolina, where southern Illinois farm boys, half a continent away from home, joined in forcing the surrender of the last major Confederate army. Few regiments fought longer or more fiercely, suffered more casualties, or won more victories. This firsthand account of the Civil War, written by its proud survivors, and virtually unobtainable for ninety years, deserves attention from anyone who seeks to understand the American past. (John Y. Simon, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)