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“david quigley”

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  • Second Founding

    New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy

    by David Quigley ...
    At the close of the Civil War, Americans found themselves drawn into a new conflict, one in which the basic shape of the nation's government had to be rethought and new rules for the democratic game had to be established. In this superb new study, David Quigley argues that New York City's politics and politicians lay at the heart of Reconstruction's intense, conflicted drama. In ways that we ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Curriculum by Design

    Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core

    by Mary Thomas Crane, David Quigley, Andy Boynton, Allison Adair, Lynne Anderson, Robert Bartlett, William Bole, Toby Bottorf0, John Butler1, Daniel Callahan2, Hanne Eisenfeld3, Thomas Epstein4, Brian Gareau5, Tara Gareau6, Elizabeth Graver7, Stacy Grooters8, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles9, Gregory Kalscheur0, Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace1, Prasannan Parthasarathi2, Brian Robinette3, Juliet Schor4, Sylvia Sellers-García5, Elizabeth H. Shlala6, Min Hyoung Song7, Jenna Tonn8, Holly VandeWall9, Dunwei Wang0 ...
    This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators, faculty, and students to view liberal arts education as an ongoing process of innovation. It aims to provide insight into what they did and why they did it and to provide a candid account of what has ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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    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

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  • The Real Lincoln

    A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

    by Thomas J. Dilorenzo ...
    A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary WarMost Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, ... Read more

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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

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  • Reconstruction after the Civil War

    by John Hope Franklin ...
    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    The classic work of American history by the renowned author of From Slavery to Freedom, with a new introduction by historian Eric Foner.First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin's revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule. Looking past dubious ... Read more

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  • The Strange Career of Jim Crow

    by C. Vann Woodward;William S. McFeely ...
    C. Vann Woodward who died in 1999 at the age of 91 was America's most eminent Southern historian the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now to honor his long and truly distinguished career Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ... Read more

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  • Break It Up

    Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union

    by Richard Kreitner ...
    **From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a examination of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up."A powerful revisionist account." —Eric Foner, American historian and author of The Second Founding**The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: The United States has never lived up to its name—and never will. The disunionist ... Read more

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  • Andrew Johnson

    The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869

    by Annette Gordon-Reed ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from officeAndrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office.Johnson faced a nearly impossible task—to succeed ... Read more

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  • Forever Free

    The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

    by Eric Foner ...
    From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War–a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era’s political and cultural meaning for today’s America.In Forever Free, Eric Foneroverturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, ... Read more

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  • Lincoln Unmasked

    What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe

    by Thomas J. Dilorenzo ...
    What if you were told that the revered leader Abraham Lincoln was actually a political tyrant who stifled his opponents by suppressing their civil rights? What if you learned that the man so affectionately referred to as the “Great Emancipator” supported white supremacy and pledged not to interfere with slavery in the South? Would you suddenly start to question everything you thought you knew ... Read more

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  • The Presidents and the People

    Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It

    by Corey Brettschneider ...
    **Winner of the American Bar Association's 2025 Silver Gavel AwardAmerican presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution; this is the inspirational history of the people who pushed back.**Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.In this ... Read more

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