american letters

"Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters-more than a hundred published for the first time-to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others."--Amazon.com.

A collection of letters written by key American figures to their children, including letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter, General Patton to his son, Oscar Hammerstein to his son, and more.

Presents a collection of speeches, addresses, and letters written by Abraham Lincoln including his message to a special session of Congress in July 1861, his First Inaugural Address in 1862, the Gettysburg Address, and blends history and biography of the sixteenth president.

Presents letters written by approximately one hundred famous people from throughout American history to their sons and daughters, arranged by theme, including love, character, and rules to live by. Features such individuals as George Washington, Frederick Douglass, Albert Einstein, Moe Howard, and Barbara Bush.

Contains hundreds of letters from Americans of all walks of life and every race, gender, and age, to Barack Obama on his becoming President of the United States.

A collection of more than 300 letters, spanning five centuries and chronicling the affairs of correspondents from George Eliot and Oscar Wilde to Groucho Marx, from poets to philosophers, from gossip about the latest fashions to gruesome details of executions, capturing the panoply of human life from the mundane to the most momentous occasions.

Contains over four hundred letters written by famous people and ordinary citizens that provide insight into the people, places, events, and trends of the twentieth century.

A collection of over 400 letters from famous and ordinary Americans that portray the people, places and events that shaped the twentieth century.

Presents a collection of over four hundred letters by American women, arranged chronologically, from the Revolutionary War to the present, including examples from ordinary people, writers, and politicians that paint a picture of American life.