Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State (Brian McGinty - LP) Hardcover Section - Gettysburg Monuments for Nance's family in 2003

for Nance's family in 2003 and "Award of Merit" by the Illinois State Historical Society in April 2015

Newton Knight of the "Free State of Jones" and others battled over the M&O

[offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery

Blending real history with heart-pounding suspense

John Jay served as the inaugural president of a pioneering antislavery society

Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State (Brian McGinty - LP) Hardcover Section - Gettysburg Monuments for Nance's family in 2003The ties that bound Abraham Lincoln to California, and California to Lincoln, have long been overlooked by historians. Although the great Civil War president has been the subject of thousands of books, his important relationship with the Western state, both before and during the warthe part it played in bringing on the great conflict and the help it gave him in winning ithave been little described and imperfectly understood. In Lincoln and California