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  • Pittsburgh Remembers World War II

    by Joseph F. Rishel ...
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    Enormous sacrifice on the battlefields and tireless effort on the homefront� Pittsburgh answered the call to duty after the news of Pearl Harbor hit local airwaves that infamous afternoon. With its high enlistment rates and booming war industries, the city was instrumental in the Allied victory. Duquesne University professor Joseph F. Rishel has compiled the memories of seventeen residents who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Founding Families Of Pittsburgh

    The Evolution Of A Regional Elite 1760-1910

    by Joseph F Rishel ...
    Series series Regional
    As Pittsburgh and its surrounding area grew into an important commercial and industrial center, a group of families emerged who were distinguished by their wealth and social position. Joseph Rishel studies twenty of these families to determine the degree to which they formed a coherent upper class and the extent to which they were able to maintain their status over time. His analysis shows that ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • A Shopkeeper's Millennium

    Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815–1837

    by Paul E. Johnson ...
    This landmark social history exploring politics, economy, and religion in nineteenth-century upstate New York is "one of the best" of its kind ( Wilson Quarterly).Decades after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work—brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Freedoms We Lost

    Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America

    by Barbara Clark Smith ...
    A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian's curator of social history.The American Revolution is widely understood—by schoolchildren and citizens alike—as having ushered in "freedom" as we know it, a freedom that places voting at the center of American democracy. In a sharp break from this view, historian Barbara Clark Smith ... Read more

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  • Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • The American Yawp

    A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877

    Edited by Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright ...
    "I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of GrassThe American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Masterless Men

    Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

    by Keri Leigh Merritt ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • The Marketplace of Revolution

    How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence

    by T. H. Breen ...
    The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a richly interdisciplinary narrative that weaves insights into a ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Empire and Nation

    The American Revolution in the Atlantic World

    by Eliga H. Gould, Peter S. Onuf ...
    Series series Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World
    A look at America's revolution in the context of the larger British empire: "Many interesting essays . . . a valuable scholarly contribution." — Journal of Colonialism and Colonial HistoryHow did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? And what was the effect of the American Revolution on the wider Atlantic world? In Empire and ... Read more

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  • Bound in Wedlock

    Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

    by Tera W. Hunter ...
    Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryWinner of the Joan Kelly Memorial PrizeWinner of the Littleton-Griswold PrizeWinner of the Mary Nickliss PrizeWinner of the Willie Lee Rose PrizeAmericans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Runaway America

    Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution

    by David Waldstreicher ...
    Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise ... Read more

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  • Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War

    by Eric Foner ...
    Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period. The first section of this book deals with the causes of the sectional conflict; the second, with the antislavery movement; and a final group of essays treats land and labor after the war. Taken together, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD