I am currently making my way through David Blight’s new biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster, 2018). No, the book is not published. I just managed to get a review copy from the publisher. Blight is at the top of his game in this book so go ahead and pre-order your copy.
Michael Burlingame ed, Sixteenth President-in-Waiting: Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860-1861 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018).
Mark H. Dunkelman, Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: the Brickyard Fight and the Mural (Gettysburg Publishing, 2018).
Andrew Gibb, Californios Anglos, and the Performance of Oligarchy in the U.S. West (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018).
Donald C. Pfanz, Where Valor Proudly Sleeps: A History of Fredericksburg National Cemetery, 1866-1933 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018).
Paul Taylor, The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known: The North’s Union Leagues in the American Civil War (Kent State University Press, 2018).
Kristopher A. Teters, Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during The Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
Henry Villard’s interviews with Lincoln are pretty interesting. A German immigrant, Villard rose from a reporter for the German-language press to ownership of The Nation magazine and the New York Post. Villard later published his Recollections of Lincoln in The Atlantic in 1904:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1904/02/recollections-of-lincoln/308741/
howls with envy and rushes off to pre-order Douglass book