Bibliography Baker, Jean H., Mary Todd Lincoln, A biography; New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1987. Author's Qualifications Jean H. Baker graduated with a B.A. from Goucher College in 1961, received a masters from John Hopkins University in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1971. She was the assistan...

The "Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass" is an intimate first hand look into a slaves life. It gives the people of today a real life view of how slaves lived and were treated. Fredrick Douglass tells us of every aspect that is slavery without the textbook approach that we are al...

The book "My Bondage And My Freedom", one of Frederick Douglass's many biographies, attempts to put into perspective his views and experiences on slavery.Born in the year 1817, Frederick Douglass lived not with his mother and father like the white children of that era would, but with his grandparent...

Carl Sandburg, born January 6, 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois (Griffith 108). Sandburg's parents August and Clara Anderson Sandburg were Swedish immigrants who came from Sweden in 1875. In Galesburg Carl only completed eight years of education before dropping out at the age of eleven. Sandburg...

The Whig Party The Whig Party was one of most powerful political parties of its time between 1834-1856. The Whig party formed in opposition of Andrew Jackson, who at that time was also known as King Andrew. The name of the Whig in fact came from an English anti-monarchist party. Throughout the...

Walt Whitman was looked upon as the forerunner of 20th Century poetry, praising democracy, and becoming a proclaimed poet of American democracy. He was known as the "Son of Long Island," and he loved his country and everything about it. (Current, Williams, Freidel- page 292-293). Whitman lived du...

We have all heard of President Abraham Lincoln. He was the 16th president of the United States. He is one of the best greatest men in American history. He was a humane, farsighted statesman in his lifetime, but when he died he became a legend and folk hero. Abraham Lincoln 's ancestry o...

Book Report: Lincoln and His Generals Author: Williams, T. Harry Harry T. Williams was born on May 19, 1909. When in college, he was encouraged by a professor to study history. This professors main interest was the Civil War era and had a great effect on Williams. He attended Platteville S...

The 1845 autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, provides an elaborate examination of the hardships of slavery. Frederick Douglass' firsthand recounting of the whippings, beatings, and hangings he observed as a slave in the nineteenth century vividly illustrate the poor trea...

President Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He was the president during the Civil War when he fought for slave rights and ended up freeing the slaves. His life ended on April 15, 1865, at the hand of a killer named John Wilkes Booth while attending a performance at Fords T...

What do you think of when you hear the name Abraham Lincoln? You\'re probably picturing a tall man with a beard and that tall silk hat. That\'s \"Honest Abe,\" and he was the President that freed the enslaved people. The President went from a cabin to the white house. Those are all significant achie...

John Brown's raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859, involved only a handful of abolitionists, freed no slaves, and was over in two days. Although many Northerners condemned the raid, by 1863, John Brown had become a hero and martyr in the North. John Brown was a...

Abraham Lincoln was assuredly one of the greatest presidents in American history. This is demonstrated by his persistence and determination, his effective administration during the Civil War, the creation of policies that benefited everyone in the United States, and the efforts that kept the United ...

The American Civil WarThe topic I have chosen for my Senior Project is the American Civil War. I intend to divide this project into six segments: 1)The required interview, 2) An analysis of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 3)An analysis of a non-fiction book, 4)A review of a mo...

An ambitious ascent from a poor Illinois farm boy to occupying the highest political office during one of Americas most turbulent times makes for the literature of hero worship. In the essay entitled Abraham Lincoln the self-made myth Rich Hofstadter challenges the reader to penetrate beneath the s...

he Life and Work of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass's writings reflected many American views that were influenced by national division. Douglass was a very successful abolitionist who changed America's views of slavery through his ...

Thomas Jefferson on Slavery“We Hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness—“(Jefferson). These words are arguably the m...

The American Civil War The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of human life. ...