In 1890 Abraham Lincoln's two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A History. Michael Burlingame has sifted through the original work and selected the personal observations of the secretaries during the Lincoln presidency, placing ten excerpts in chronological order.

A groundbreaking study that assesses the presidency of Abraham Lincoln through the lenses of governmental power, economic policy, expansion of executive power, and natural rights to show how Lincoln not only believed in the limitations of presidential power but also dedicated his presidency to restraining the scope and range of it.

The figure of the American theatrical scenic designer first emerged in the early twentieth century. This book tells the history of the field through the figures, institutions, and movements that helped create and shape the profession.

Considered an essential text since its publication thirty-five years ago, this guide for students and practitioners of both theatre and literature complements, rather than contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.

Focusing on the traits and types of guises usually associated with the ""bitch"" character in literature (evil stepmothers, village gossips, sinful sirens and so on), this book argues that, after a notable absence from the feminist writing of the 1960s and '70s, the bitch is coming back.

Offers the first in-depth account of how Abraham Lincoln responded to the riddles of mortality, undertook personal mourning, and coped with the extraordinary burden of sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers to be killed on battlefields.

Covers the author's years growing up in early post-settlement Illinois, where he gave in to temptations such as drinking, gambling, and the lure of prostitutes before joining the army, finding God and becoming a preacher. Blackman peppers his story with the sordid details of the sinful times of his life as well as with discussions of faith and of struggling to understand his God.