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  • The Webster-Hayne Debate

    Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic

    by Christopher Childers ...
    Series series Witness to History
    In this illuminating history, a senatorial debate about states' rights exemplifies the growing rift within pre-Civil War America.Two generations after the founding, Americans still disagreed on the nature of the Union. Was it a confederation of sovereign states or a nation headed by a central government? To South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne, only the vigilant protection of states' rights ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse

    Translated by Christopher Childers ...
    by Professor Glenn W. Most ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD'Inspired and enlightening ... here is a work of staggering ambition, exceptional accomplishment, and surprisingly pleasant reading ... an excellent gift for anyone interested in classical literature'** A. E. Stallings, Telegraph'Read cover to cover, The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The American South

    A History, Volume 2, From Reconstruction to the Present, Fifth Edition

    by Christopher Childers, Thomas E. Terrill, William J. Cooper Jr. ...
    In The American South: A History, Fifth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The authors' analysis underscores the complex interaction between the South as a distinct region and the South as an inescapable part of America. Cooper and Terrill show how the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Failure of Popular Sovereignty

    Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics

    by Christopher Childers ...
    Series series American Political Thought
    As the expanding United States grappled with the question of how to determine the boundaries of slavery, politicians proposed popular sovereignty as a means of entrusting the issue to citizens of new territories. Christopher Childers now uses popular sovereignty as a lens for viewing the radicalization of southern states’ rights politics, demonstrating how this misbegotten offspring of slavery and ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The American South

    A History, Volume 1, From Settlement to Reconstruction, Fifth Edition

    by William J. Cooper Jr., Thomas E. Terrill, Christopher Childers ...
    In The American South: A History, Fifth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr., Thomas E. Terrill, and Christopher Childers demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The autIn The American South: A History, Fifth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr., Thomas E. Terrill, and Christopher Childers demonstrate their belief that it is ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Enigmatic South

    Toward Civil War and Its Legacies

    by Paul F. Paskoff, John M. Sacher, Eric H. Walther, Christopher Childers, Julia Nguyen, Sarah Hyde, Gaines M. Foster, George C. Rable ...
    The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American history.Christopher Childers, Sarah L. Hyde, and Julia Huston Nguyen consider the ways politics, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Reconstruction Updated Edition

    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $13.69 USD

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  • A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work of Civil War history on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery, a pivotal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Wolf by the Ears

    The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821

    by John R. Van Atta ...
    Series series Witness to History
    "In this engaging work, Van Atta . . . provides an in-depth analysis of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, a seminal event on the road to the Civil War." — ChoiceIn Wolf by the Ears, John R. Van Atta discusses how the question of slavery surfaced in the divisive fight over Missouri statehood. As Thomas Jefferson wrote at the time, a nation dealing with the politically implacable issue of slavery ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Road to Disunion

    Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861

    by William W. Freehling ...
    Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and much more ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Year of Meteors

    Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War

    by Douglas R. Egerton ...
    “Egerton tells the story of the dissolution of the Union as it should be told, not from the perspective of those looking back on the crisis, but from the clouded vision of those who lived through it.” -Carol Berkin, author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution and Civil War WivesIn early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator ... Read more

    $13.59 USD