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  • Elusive Utopia

    The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio

    by Gary Kornblith, Carol Lasser, Richard J. M. Blackett, Edward Bartlett Rugemer ...
    Series series Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
    Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin College, strove to end slavery and establish full equality for all. Yet, in the half-century after the Union victory, Oberlin’s resolute stand for racial justice eroded as race-based discrimination pressed down on its African American citizens. In ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Antebellum Women

    Private, Public, Partisan

    by Carol Lasser, Stacey Roberttson ...
    Series series American Controversies
    How did diverse women in America understand, explain, and act upon their varied constraints, positions, responsibilities, and worldviews in changing American society between the end of the Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War? Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan answers the question by going beyond previous works in the field. The authors identify three phases in the changing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antebellum Women

    Private, Public, Partisan

    by Carol Lasser, Stacey Robertson ...
    Series series American Controversies
    How did diverse women in America understand, explain, and act upon their varied constraints, positions, responsibilities, and worldviews in changing American society between the end of the Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War? Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan answers the question by going beyond previous works in the field. The authors identify three phases in the changing ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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    A Life

    by Willard Sterne Randall ...
    "Hamilton's turbulent life, the dramatic birth of a nation . . . propelled with the page-turning intensity of an epic novel." —Ronald Blumer, Peabody Award–winning writerA new reissue of this important biography of Alexander Hamilton—arguably one of the most brilliant and complex of our nation's founders.From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis, to his unhappy ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hamilton's Curse

    How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today

    by Thomas J. Dilorenzo ...
    Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton--two of the most influential Founding Fathers--were also fierce rivals with two opposing political philosophies and two radically different visions for America.While Jefferson is better remembered today, it is actually Hamilton’s political legacy that has triumphed--a legacy that has subverted the Constitution and transformed the federal government into the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • His Excellency

    George Washington

    by Joseph J. Ellis ...
    National BestsellerTo this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The History of the American Revolution

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Covers every major event in the history of the American Revolution, from the Sugar Act of 1764 to the Treaty of Paris in 1783.*Profiles the military and political leaders of the American Revolution and the roles they played, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, and more. *Examines the major battles of the Revolution, from Lexington to Yorktown ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Tories

    Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

    by Thomas B. Allen ...
    An "evocatively written examination" of the Americans who fought alongside the British during the American Revolution ( American Spectator).The American Revolution was not simply a battle between the independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Original Meanings

    Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Jack N. Rakove ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Israel on the Appomattox

    A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War

    by Melvin Patrick Ely ...
    **WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' Choice**Thomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong.Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Framers' Coup

    The Making of the United States Constitution

    by Michael J. Klarman ...
    Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views." One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • Nathan Hale

    The Life and Death of America's First Spy

    by M. William Phelps ...
    Although famous for his purported last words—“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”—few people know the real Nathan Hale. M. William Phelps brings into focus the life of this famed patriot and first spy of the American Revolution, charting Hale’s rural childhood, his education at Yale, and his work as a schoolteacher. Like many young Americans, he was soon drawn into the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD