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Lt. Benjamin Loring (1824–1902) lived the life of an everyman Civil War sailor. He commanded no armies and devised no gr

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I Held Lincoln: A Union Sailor's Journey Home
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Without a map, navigate by the stars. Susan Tweit began learning this lesson as a young woman diagnosed with an autoimmu

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Over the course of the Civil War, fifty-nine men served as governors of the twenty-five Union states. aAlthough these st

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Adopting a new approach to an American icon, an award-winning scholar reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstr

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In The Haunt of Home Zachary Michael Jack considers the many ways a region's abiding spirit shapes the ethos of a l

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Fully aware that his mythical home-place might have vanished forever into memory (or at least into sad disrepair), Gary

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was

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Maxwell Taylor Kennedy takes readers on a wild ride as he relates the harrowing voyage to deliver his boat, Valkyrien, a

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Esta biografía muestra los más variados aspectos sobre la existencia de Abraham Lincoln. La intensidad de la vida del pr

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‘He pushed open the door, and I saw that he was pulling something out of a bag he was carrying. It was a gun – a sawn-of

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