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  • The Unknown American Revolution

    The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America

    by Gary B. Nash ...
    In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Liberty Bell

    by Gary B. Nash ...
    Series series Icons of America
    Each year, more than two million visitors line up near Philadelphia's Independence Hall and wait to gaze upon a flawed mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has survived a precarious journey on the road to becoming a symbol of the American identity, and in this masterful work, Gary B. Nash reveals how and why ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Beloved Friend

    The Life and Writings of Anne Emlen Mifflin

    by Gary B. Nash, Emily M. Teipe ...
    Born into one of the wealthiest families in Philadelphia and raised and educated in that vital center of eighteenth-century American Quakerism, Anne Emlen Mifflin was a progressive force in early America. This detailed and engaging biography, which features Mifflin’s collected writings and selected correspondence, revives her legacy.Anne grew up directly across the street from the Pennsylvania ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Race and Revolution

    by Gary B. Nash ...
    The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact but provided it with the protection of a vastly ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Writings of Warner Mifflin

    Forgotten Quaker Abolitionist of the Revolutionary Era

    by Warner Mifflin ...
    In The Writings of Warner Mifflin, Gary Nash and Michael McDowell present the correspondence, petitions, and memorials to state and federal legislative bodies, semi-autobiographical essays, and other materials of the key figure in the U.S. abolitionist movement between the end of the American Revolution and the Jefferson presidency. Virtually unknown to Americans, Mifflin has been brought to life ... Read more

    $74.19 USD

  • Warner Mifflin

    Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist

    by Gary B. Nash ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying the peace testimony to Generals Howe and Washington across the blood-soaked Germantown battlefield and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Making of Urban America

    by Eric Avila, Timothy M. Collins, Daniel Czitrom, Leslie M. Harris, Arnold R. Hirsch, Michael B. Katz, Randall M. Miller, Edward K. Muller, Gary B. Nash, Mary E. Odem, Kathy Peiss, Madelon Powers, Joel A. Tan, Dominic A. Pacyga, Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • The Human Tradition in the American Revolution

    by Edward J. Cashin, David Grimsted, Gary L. Hewitt, Alison Duncan Hirsch, Phillip W. Hoffman, Thomas J. Humphrey, Michelle Leung, Katherine M. J. McKenna, Gary B. Nash, Jon W. Parmenter, John Sainsbury, John Shy, Sheila Skemp, Daniel Vickers, Maurice Jackson, Stephen Aron ...
    Series series The Human Tradition in America
    This collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the colonies during this pivotal point in history. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • First City

    Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory

    by Gary B. Nash ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were drafted and signed in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Warner Mifflin

    Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist

    by Gary B. Nash ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying the peace testimony to Generals Howe and Washington across the blood-soaked Germantown battlefield and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • First City

    Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory

    by Gary B. Nash ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were drafted and signed in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD