A biography of former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln with emphasis on their roles in the end of slavery in the United States.
Depicts the Vietnam War from its expansion in the early 1960s through the evacuation of Saigon in 1975, plus what happened at home, including the antiwar movement, assassinations, Watergate, and more.
Provides an account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, discussing how actor John Wilkes Booth and his fellow Confederate sympathizers hatched their murderous plot, and following the ensuing manhunt, trials, and executions of the conspirators.