The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation
10 best books like The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation (Jonathan Hennessey): Science Comics: Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean, Cartoon Guide to the Environment, Lincoln Dreamt He Died: The Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freud, Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel, Lewis & Clark, Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley, Big Bad Ironclad!, The Plant Hunters: True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth, Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, The Civil War: A Visual History
| Author | Maris Wicks |
| ISBN | 1626721459 |
Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic--dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth...
Cartoon Guide to the Environment
| Author | Larry Gonick |
| ISBN | 0062732749 |
Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an on-line restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to the Environment to put you on the road to environmental literacy. The Cartoon Guide to the Environment covers...
Lincoln Dreamt He Died: The Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freud
| Author | Andrew Burstein |
| ISBN | 1137278277 |
Before Sigmund Freud made dreams the cornerstone of understanding an individual's inner life, Americans shared their dreams unabashedly with one another through letters, diaries, and casual conversation. In this innovative new book, highly regarded historian Andrew Burstein goes back for the...
| Author | C.M. Butzer |
| ISBN | 0061561754 |
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is familiar to all Americans. But never has his most famous speech--his 271 indelible words--been presented in such a visual and accessible format. Graphic artist and Civil War aficionado C. M. Butzer deftly uses a detailed, comic-book style to depict the Battle...
| Author | Nick Bertozzi |
| ISBN | 1596434503 |
Two of America's greatest explorers embark on the adventure that made their names—and sealed their fates.
In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark departed St. Louis, Missouri, for one of the greatest adventures this nation has ever known. Appointed and funded by President Jefferson...
| Author | Sally M. Walker |
| ISBN | 1575058308 |
On February 17, 1864, the H.L. Hunley made history as the first submarine to sink a ship in battle. Soldiers on the shore waited patiently after seeing the submarine's return signal. But after several days, the ship had failed to return. What had gone wrong? In 1995, after over 130 years of searching,...
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419703951 |
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Each of the books in Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales has elements of the strange but true and is presented in an engaging, funny format, highlighting the larger-than-life characters that pop up in real history. Big Bad Ironclad! covers the history...
The Plant Hunters: True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth
| Author | Anita Silvey |
| ISBN | 0374309086 |
Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and dangerous animals. They battled piranhas, tigers, and vampire bats. Even the plants themselves could be lethal! But these intrepid eighteenth-...
| Author | Marc Tyler Nobleman |
| ISBN | 1580892892 |
Every Batman story is marked with the words "Batman created by Bob Kane." But that isn't the whole truth. A struggling writer named Bill Finger was involved from the beginning. Bill helped invent Batman, from concept to costume to character. He dreamed up Batman's haunting origins and his colorful...
Produced with the Smithsonian Institution and released in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the start of the war, "The Civil War" is the definitive visual history to one of the most defining moments in our country's history.
Comprehensive timelines, revealing first-person accounts...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561634263 |
On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln, along with his wife and some guests, went to Ford's Theatre in New York to see the play Our American Cousin and was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate. Booth shouted "Sic Semper Tyrannis" or "Thus Always to Tyrants" after leaping from the balcony,...
| Author | Ari Kelman |
| ISBN | 0809094746 |
The first graphic history to capture the full scope of the Civil War, gorgeously drawn and expertly told
The graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and the award-winning historian Ari Kelman team up to create a unique portrait of a brutal and defining event in American history: the Civil...
| Author | Samantha Seiple |
| ISBN | 0545708974 |
Lincoln's Spymaster tells the dangerous and action-packed adventures of Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye and Lincoln's most trusted spymaster.
Pinkerton was just a poor immigrant barrel-maker in Illinois when he stumbled across his first case just miles from his home. His reputation...
The Civil War in 50 Objects
The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects: A fresh, visual perspective on the Civil War
From a soldier’s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown’s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, a Confederate Palmetto flag, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s...
Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection
| Author | Neil Kagan |
| ISBN | 1588343898 |
Smithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the Smithsonian's collections, curators handpicked 550 items and wrote a unique narrative that begins...
| Author | James M. McPherson |
| ISBN | 0807835889 |
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because the represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In "War on the Waters," James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and...
