Library of Congress

Featuring first-hand narrative accounts from those who experienced the front lines, this illustrated chronology of the Civil War features portraits of soldiers and politicians, and drafts of speeches in Abraham Lincoln's own handwriting.

Devereaux presents rare, colorful baseball cards that celebrate the first decades of the great American sport. Selected from the Library of Congress's Benjamin K. Edward Collection, these cards bring to life an era of American history that saw the game explode in popularity as the sport spread to nearly every corner of the country. In showing a history of sports cards, Devereaux shows the ways the cards have shaped and influenced U.S. culture. --...

Lady Maggie Hawkins, a political cartoonist who draws under a male pseudonym, makes the man who betrayed her, Simon Barrett, Earl of Winchester who is a rising star in Parliament, the laughingstock of the town until she discovers the truth of what happened years ago.

A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology...