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![]() The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979. On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court's decision against Dred Scott |
![]() We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts How witnesses felt after; how rumor of other tragedies spread in the hours after, why some Southerners hated Lincoln and cheered his death; and, ultimately, why those who loved him were so profoundly affected |
![]() Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution For twelve days after the president was shot, the nation waited breathlessly as manhunters tracked down John Wilkes Booth |
![]() Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: THE WRITINGS OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH Collection of the writings of John Wilkes Booth constitutes a major new primary source that contributes to scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and nineteenth-century theater history. The nearly seventy documents--more than half published here for the first time--include love letters written during the summer of 1864 |