Edward L. Widmer Books
The New York Times' Disunion: A History of the Civil War
By Edward L. Widmer, George Kalogerakis, Clay Risen
"Between 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining...
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Young America
This study examines the meteoric career of a vigorous intellectual movement rising out of the Age of Jackson. As Americans argued over their destiny in the decades preceding the Civil War, an out-s...
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The New York Times disunion
By Edward L. Widmer, George Kalogerakis, Clay Risen
"Modern historians revisit and reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's election to the Emancipation Proclamation."
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American Speeches Vol. 2 (LOA 167)
By Ted Widmer
The history of American oratory exhibits, in the words of William F. Buckley, “powerful ignition points for hot flashes of indignation, contempt, rage, veneration and yearning.” This vo...
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