Frank Carlson Library

Profiles the early life, career, family, and contributions of the fifth president of the United States.

A biography of the seventh President describing his frontier childhood, education, career as a soldier and politician, and his new approach to the presidency.

Surveys the childhood, education, employment, and political career of the Civil War president.

Traces the life of the Virginia politician, American diplomat, and United States president and examines the domestic and foreign issues dominating his career.

Describes the childhood, education, employment, and political career of the energetic man who served as the twenty-sixth president of the United States.

An in-depth survey of efforts made by Americans to preserve and protect the natural world and its precious, limited resources.

Presents the history of the westward expansion of the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, journal entries, and laws of the time.