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Kate Clifford Larson

Kate Clifford Larson

writer, historian

Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln

Kate Clifford Larson

November 25, 2008

Kate Clifford Larson details the enormous risks Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt undertook in assisting the fetching young actor John Wilkes Booth, her own son John Surratt, and other young men in their plot to kill Abraham Lincoln.

Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land

Kate Clifford Larson

February 10, 2004

Historian Kate Clifford Larson discusses her new book, Bound for the Promised Land, which draws on a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical research and reveals Harriet Tubman as a complex woman who was brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her p

The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln

Author: Kate Clifford Larson

Publisher: Basic Books (2008)

Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages

Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

Author: Kate Clifford Larson

Publisher: One World/Ballantine (2004)

Binding: Paperback, 432 pages

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