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  • Until Justice Be Done

    America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Kate Masur ...
    **Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryFinalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeWinner of the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize • Winner of the John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History • Winner of the American Society for Legal History's John Phillip Reid Book AwardOne of NPR's Best Books of 2021 and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021A ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Freedom Was in Sight

    A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region

    by Kate Masur ...
    Series series A Ferris and Ferris Book
    The Reconstruction era was born from the tumult and violence of the Civil War and delivered the most powerful changes the United States had seen since its founding. Black Americans in Washington, D.C., and its surrounding region were at the heart of these transformations, bravely working to reunite their families, build their communities, and claim rights long denied them. Meanwhile, in the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • An Example for All the Land

    Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.

    by Kate Masur ...
    An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative story of how black men’s right to vote transformed local affairs, and how, in short order, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Until Justice Be Done

    America's First Civil Rights Movement from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Kate Masur ...
    Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 15 min

    A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, north and south, in the decades before the Civil War.The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states, claiming the authority to maintain the domestic peace, enacted laws that discouraged free African ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Beyond Freedom

    Disrupting the History of Emancipation

    by Eric Foner, Justin Behrend, Greg Downs, Carole Emberton, Thavolia Glymph, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, James Oakes0, Susan Eva O'Donovan1, Hannah Rosen2, Brenda Stevenson3, Richard S. Newman4 ...
    Series series
    This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Remembering the Memphis Massacre

    An American Story

    by Jim Downs, Carole Emberton, Timothy S. Huebner, Elizabeth L. Jemison, Andre E. Johnson, Kate Masur, K. Stephen Prince, Joseph Reidy, John Rodrigue, Hannah Rosen, Joshua D. Rothman, Julie Saville, Calvin Schermerhorn, Andrew Slap ...
    On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic, cultural, class, and gender tensions rocketing to new heights. For three days, a mob of white men roamed through South Memphis, leaving a trail of ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The World the Civil War Made

    Edited by Gregory P. Downs, Kate Masur ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily life of the entire nation. In an expansive reimagining of post–Civil War America, the essays in this volume explore these profound changes not only in the South but also in the Southwest, in the Great ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • They Knew Lincoln

    by John E. Washington ...
    Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in Washington, DC, and of the black people who knew or encountered Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Washington recounted stories told by his ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • 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

    $27.99 USD

  • Shmoop US History Guide: Causes of the Civil War

    by Shmoop ...
    Dive deep into the history of Causes of the Civil War anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop's award-winning US History Guides are now available on your eReader. Shmoop eBooks are like having a trusted, fun, chatty, expert history-tour-guide always by your side, no matter where you are (or how late it is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • They Left Great Marks on Me

    African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I

    by Kidada E Williams ...
    A study of real accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans' bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    by Eric Foner ...
    “A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston GlobeSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see ... Read more

    $12.99 USD