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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...

In 1774, American independence was hardly inevitable--indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. Beeman tells the remarkable story of how the delegates to the Continental Congress, through courage and compromise, came to dedicate their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the forging of American independence.

Civil War veteran Abel Truman, now elderly and disabled, endures a solitary existence in a driftwood shack on the Pacific Coast before undertaking one last hike through the Olympic Mountains, a journey during which he reflects on the war's savagery and the people who touched his life.

Despite tremendous interest in Abraham Lincoln and his place in one of America's most tumultuous historical periods, little has been written about his religious life. This truly fresh look at the nation's sixteenth president relates the outward events of Lincoln's life to his inner spiritual struggles and sets them both against the intellectual backdrop of his age Allen Guelzo's unique intellectual biography explores the role of ideas in Lincoln's...

The Definitive Source for answers to all your questions on American History introduction by Douglas Brinkley. Providing a compact, easy-to-use overview of the fascinating story of America, The New York Public Library American History Desk Reference is packed with information on a variety of topics from military and foreign affairs to education and science. Organized thematically into detailed timelines highlighting events throughout America's history,...