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  • The Preacher and the Politician

    Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America

    Barack Obama’s inauguration as the first African American president of the United States has caused many commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial age. The Preacher and the Politician argues otherwise, reminding us that, far from inevitable, Obama’s nomination was nearly derailed by his relationship with Jeremiah Wright, the outspoken former pastor of Trinity United Church of ... Leer más

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  • L'impossible retour

    À propos de l'afrocentrisme

    Cet ouvrage incisif de l'historien américain Clarence Walker révèle la nature et la signification du courant "afrocentriste" aux Etats-Unis. Confrontés aux discriminations et aux humiliations d'un durable racisme yankee, les Noirs ont été tentés par une fuite en arrière vers la vision romantique d'une Afrique merveilleuse sortie d'une Egypte noire, mère de toutes les civilisations, dont l'héritage ... Leer más

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  • We Can't Go Home Again

    An Argument About Afrocentrism

    Afrocentrism has been a controversial but popular movement in schools and universities across America, as well as in black communities. But in We Can't Go Home Again, historian Clarence E. Walker puts Afrocentrism to the acid test, in a thoughtful, passionate, and often blisteringly funny analysis that melts away the pretensions of this "therapeutic mythology." As expounded by Molefi Kete Asante, ... Leer más

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  • Mongrel Nation

    The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

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    The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of "Did they or didn’t they?" But lost in the argument over the existence of such a relationship are equally urgent questions about a history that is more complex, both sexually and culturally, than most of us realize. Mongrel Nation seeks to uncover this complexity, as well as the reasons it is ... Leer más

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  • The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790–1840

    de Jack Larkin ...
    A fascinating history of the daily lives of Americans in the first fifty years of the new republic, told often in their own words.The years between the patrician leadership of George Washington and the campaign that elected William Henry Harrison marked a period of startling changes in American life. However, most American were enmeshed in the myriad ordinary concerns of their lives, and although ... Leer más

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  • The Idea of America

    Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    **“Exceptional... a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American Revolution remains so essential to our identity and culture.**For Gordon S. Wood, the American Revolution is ... Leer más

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  • My American Revolution

    A Modern Expedition Through History's Forgotten Battlegrounds

    Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies—in New York and New Jersey and the parts of Pennsylvania that on a clear day you can almost see from the Empire State Building. In My American Revolution, Robert Sullivan delves into this first Middle America, digging for a glorious, ... Leer más

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  • The Road to Disunion

    Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854: Volume I

    Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, where the egalitarian spirit sweeping the North seeped down through border states already uncertain about ... Leer más

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  • Original Meanings

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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr

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    From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—a fascinating portrait of one of the most compelling politicians in American history—a Revolutionary War hero, vice president of the United States, and the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.But as H. W. Brands demonstrates in this biography, Burr was a man before his time—a proponent of equality ... Leer más

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  • Sons of Providence

    The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution

    In 1774, as the new world simmered with tensions that would lead to the violent birth of a new nation, two Rhode Island brothers were heading toward their own war over the issue that haunts America to this day: slavery.Set against a colonial backdrop teeming with radicals and reactionaries, visionaries, spies, and salty sea captains, Sons of Providence is the biography of John and Moses Brown, two ... Leer más

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  • Israel on the Appomattox

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

    **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 ... Leer más

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