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  • The Secession Conventions of the South

    by Ralph A. Wooster ...
    The result of painstaking and detailed research, Ralph A. Wooster, offers a fascinating insight into the men that participated in the conventions, and Legislatures that led the abortive rebellion of the Southern states. Delving into their professions, backgrounds, land and slave holding, the author elucidates the trends, voting records and party politics of the members.A fascinating and necessary ... Read more

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  • Lone Star Blue and Gray

    Essays on Texas and the Civil War

    Edited by Robert Wooster, Ralph Wooster ...
    From the bitter disputes over secession to the ways in which the conflict would be remembered, Texas and Texans were caught up in the momentous struggles of the American Civil War.Tens of thousands of Texans joined military units, and scarcely a household in the state was unaffected as mothers and wives assumed new roles in managing farms and plantations. Still others grappled with the massive ... Read more

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  • Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

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  • Reconstruction after the Civil War

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  • A Brilliant Solution

    Inventing the American Constitution

    by Carol Berkin ...
    A rich narrative portrait of post-revolutionary America and the men who shaped its political future."Just as the Constitution was a brilliant solution to the problems of the 1780s, Carol Berkin's book is a brilliant account of the making of that constitution. Written with great verve and clarity, it nicely captures all the contingency and unpredictability in the framing of the Constitution." ... Read more

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  • Plain, Honest Men

    The Making of the American Constitution

    by Richard Beeman ...
    In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the extent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, most explosive of all, ... Read more

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  • Seceding from Secession

    The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia

    by Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus, Penny L. Barrick ...
    A "thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening" account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war ( Civil War News)."West Virginia was the child of the storm." —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. LangAs the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union's 35th state. ... Read more

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  • Lincoln and the Abolitionists

    John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    "Anyone who wants to understand the United States' racial divisions will learn a lot from reading Kaplan's richly researched account of one of the worst periods in American history and its chilling effects today in our cities, legislative bodies, schools, and houses of worship." — St. Louis Post-DispatchThe acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan returns with a controversial exploration of how Abraham ... Read more

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  • Decision in Philadelphia

    The Constitutional Convention of 1787

    by Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier ...
    Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. Decision in Philadelphia is the best popular history of the Constitutional Convention; in it, the life and times of eighteenth century America not only come alive, but the very human ... Read more

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  • Slave Nation

    How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution

    by Alfred Blumrosen, Ruth Blumrosen ...
    A book all Americans should read, Slave Nation reveals the key role racism played in the American Revolutionary War, so we can see our past more clearly and build a better future.In 1772, the High Court in London freed a slave from Virginia named Somerset, setting a precedent that would end slavery in England. In America, racist fury over this momentous decision united the Northern and Southern ... Read more

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  • The Summer of 1787

    The Men Who Invented the Constitution

    by David O. Stewart ...
    The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation—then and now.George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia ... Read more

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