2011 Virtual Book Signing™ Events

November 2 (Part 1) November 2 (Part 2) November 2 (Part 3) November 2 (Part 4)	Amanda Foreman talks about A World on Fire.
September 30 (Part 1) September 30 (Part 2) September 30 (Part 3) September 30 (Part 4)	David Blight talks about American Oracle and William Harris talks about Lincoln and the Border States.
July 21 (Part 1) July 21 (Part 2) July 21 (Part 3) July 21 (Part 4)	Anthony Pitch talks about They Have Killed Papa Dead, and Michael Weeks talks about Civil War Road Trip.
July 9 (Part 1) July 9 (Part 2) July 9 (Part 3) July 9 (Part 4)	Clifton Truman Daniel talks about Dear Harry, Love Bess and Charles Lachman talks about A Secret Life.
June 13 (Part 1) June 13 (Part 2) June 13 (Part 3) June 14 (Part 4)	Joseph Glatthaar discusses Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia and General Lee's Army and Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh talks about Westpointers in the Civil War.
May 19 (Part 1) May 19 (Part 2) May 19 (Part 3) May 19 (Part 4)	Adam Goodheart discusses 1861: The Awakening.
May 13 (Part 1) May 13 (Part 2) May 13 (Part 3) May 13 (Part 4)	Harold Holzer taks about Lincoln on War, Hearts Touched By Fire, and Father Abraham.
February 19 (Part 1) February 19 (Part 2) February 19 (Part 3) February 19 (Part 4)	Richard Campanella talks about Lincoln in New Orleans.
January 15 (Part 1) January 15 (Part 2) January 15 (Part 3) January 15 (Part 4)	George Rable discusses God's Almost Chosen Peoples and Michael Peake talks about Blood Shed in this War.

2010 Virtual Book Signing™ Events

December 10 (Part 1) December 10 (Part 2) December 10 (Part 3) December 10 (Part 4)	Anne Marshall talks about Creating a Confederate Kentucky and David Hirsch and Dan VanHaften talk about Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason.
November 30 (Part 1) November 30 (Part 2) November 30 (Part 3) November 30 (Part 4)	Ron Chernow talks about Washington: A Life.
October 23 (Part 1) October 23 (Part 2) October 23 (Part 3) October 23 (Part 4)	Robert Bray talks about Reading With Lincoln and James Lander talks about Lincoln and Darwin.
October 9 (Part 1) October 9 (Part 2) October 9 (Part 3) October 9 (Part 4)	Earl Hess talks about The Crater and Chris Hartley talks about Stoneman's Raid.
July 24 (Part 1) July 24 (Part 2) July 24 (Part 3) July 24 (Part 4)	Larry Hewitt talks about Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, Vols 1 & 2 and Brian Craig Miller talks about John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory.
July 10 (Part 1) July 10 (Part 2) July 10 (Part 3) July 10 (Part 4)	Mark Lause on Race and Radicalism in the Union Army.
June 16 (Part 1) June 16 (Part 2) June 16 (Part 3) June 16 (Part 4)	Ed Bearss on Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg: The Campaigns that Changed the Civil War.
June 12 (Part 1) June 12 (Part 2) June 12 (Part 3) June 12 (Part 4)	Harold Holzer on The Lincoln Assassination Crime & Punishment, Myth & Memory and Ronald White on A. Lincoln.
April 16 (Part 1) April 16 (Part 2) April 16 (Part 3) April 16 (Part 4)	Seth Grahame-Smith talks about Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
March 27 (Part 1) March 27 (Part 2) March 27 (Part 3) March 27 (Part 4)	Paul Taylor talks about Orlando Poe: Civil War General, Great Lakes Engineer
March 6 (Part 1) March 6 (Part 2) March 6 (Part 3) March 6 (Part 4)	Michael Perman talks about Pursuit of Unity and Julia Stern talks about Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic.
January 30 (Part 1) January 30 (Part 2) January 30 (Part 3)	Norm Boas talks about Abraham Lincoln Illustrated Biographical Dictionary and Burrus Carnahan talks about Lincoln on Trial.

2009 Virtual Book Signing™ Events

December 5 (Part 1) December 5 (Part 2) December 5 (Part 3) December 5 (Part 4)	Dave Powell talks about The Maps of Chickamauga.
November 21 (Part 1) November 21 (Part 2) November 21 (Part 3) November 21 (Part 4)	Philip Kunhardt talks about Lincoln Life-Size and Earl Maltz talks about Slavery and the Supreme Court.
November 13 (Part 1) November 13 (Part 2) November 13 (Part 3) November 13 (Part 4)	David Plouffe talks about The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory.
November 5 (Part 1) November 5 (Part 2) November 5 (Part 3) November 5 (Part 4)	Joan Waugh talks about U. S. Grant, American Hero, American Myth and Peri Arnolds talks about Remaking the Presidency.
October 29 (Part 1) October 29 (Part 2) October 29 (Part 3) October 29 (Part 4)	Taylor Branch talks about The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President.
October 17 (Part 1) October 17 (Part 2) October 17 (Part 3) October 17 (Part 4)	Barton Myers talks about Executing Daniel Bright and Ron Elliott talks about Through the Eyes of Lincoln.
September 5 (Part 1) September 5 (Part 2) September 5 (Part 3) September 5 (Part 4)	Bruce Allardice talks about Confederate Colonels and Robert Girardi talks about Campaigning with Uncle Billy.
June 27 (Part 1) June 27 (Part 2) June 28 (Part 3) June 28 (Part 4)	Sal Cilella talks about Upton's Regulars and James Swan talks about Chicago's Irish Legion.
May 16 (Part 1) May 16 (Part 2) May 16 (Part 3) May 16 (Part 4)	Matthew Algeo talks about Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure and Larry Tagg talks about The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln.
April 25 (Part 1) April 25 (Part 2) April 25 (Part 3) April 25 (Part 4)	Fred Reed, Jr talks about Abraham Lincoln: The Image of His Greatness and Marc Egnal on Clash of Extremes.
March 28 (Part 1) March 28 (Part 2) March 28 (Part 3) March 28 (Part 4)	Tom Campbell talks about Slavery in Chicago and Lance Herdegen talks about Those Damn Black Hats.
March 5 (Part 1) March 5 (Part 2) March 5 (Part 3) March 5 (Part 4)	Michael Burlingame talks about Abraham Lincoln: A Life.
February 21(Part 1) February 21 (Part 2) February 21 (Part 3)	David Leroy talks about Mr. Lincoln's Book.
February 14 (Part 1) February 14 (Part 2) February 14 (Part 3) February 14 (Part 4)	Catherine Clinton talks about Mrs. Lincoln and Ron White talks about A. Lincoln.
January 15 (Part 1) January 15 (Part 2) January 15 (Part 3) January 15 (Part 4)	George McGovern, joins us at the Freedom Museum for a talk about his book Abraham Lincoln the Sixteenth President.

Mr. Lincoln
Meeting the Press

Mr. Lincoln Meeting the Press Part 1	Mr. Lincoln Meeting the Press Part 2
Mr. Lincoln Meeting the Press Part 3	Mr. Lincoln Meeting the Press Part 4

Ordering Previous Titles

If you would like to order books from previous Virtual Book Signing™ programs, please visit the and the Book Blast sections of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop web site. You can also email to confirm availability. We have limited quantities of a few of the titles. A few titles are still available signed, in first editions; others are available in later editions and with signed bookplates. Some are out of print. Call now to avoid disappointment.

If you prefer to call in your order we are at 312/944-3085.

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Including our Pritzker Military Library Events
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