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  • The Gilded Age

    Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America

    by Lewis L. Gould, Ruth C. Crocker, Eric Arnesen, W. Bernard Carlson, Ellen M. Litwicki, Ballard C. Campbell, Robert G. Barrows, Glenn Porter, Worth Robert Miller, Roger Daniels, Edmund J. Danziger Jr., Michael Les Benedict, Stacy A. Cordery, Leslie H. Fishel, Joseph A. Fry ...
    The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society.Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • West from Appomattox

    The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War

    by Heather Cox Richardson ...
    "This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era . . . will be appealing . . . to anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics" ( Publishers Weekly).The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. In many ways, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners forged a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Republic for Which It Stands

    The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

    by Richard White ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

    by Michael McGerr ...
    With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence on the country to start its own revolution. Before the Progressive Era most Americans lived on farms, working from before sunrise to after sundown every day except Sunday with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Reader's Companion to American History

    Edited by Eric Foner, John A. Garraty ...
    An A-to-Z historical encyclopedia of US people, places, and events, with nearly 1,000 entries "all equally well written, crisp, and entertaining" ( Library Journal).From the origins of its native peoples to its complex identity in modern times, this unique alphabetical reference covers the political, economic, cultural, and social history of America.A fact-filled treasure trove for history buffs, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children of Fire

    A History of African Americans

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    "Simply brilliant. . . . The first survey of African American history to rival John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's From Slavery to Freedom." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Progressivism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Walter Nugent ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Why Coolidge Matters

    Leadership Lessons from Americas Most Underrated President

    by Charles C. Johnson ...
    Imagine a country in which strikes by public-sector unions occupied the public square; where foreign policy wandered aimlessly as America disentangled itself from wars abroad and a potential civil war on its southern border; where racial and ethnic groups jostled for political influence; where a war on illicit substances led to violence in its cities; where technology was dramatically changing how ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • American Tax Resisters

    by Romain D. Huret ...
    “The American taxpayer”—angered by government waste and satisfied only with spending cuts—has preoccupied elected officials and political commentators since the Reagan Revolution. But resistance to progressive taxation has older, deeper roots. American Tax Resisters presents the full history of the American anti-tax movement that has defended the pursuit of limited taxes on wealth and battled ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Jim Crow's Children

    The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision

    by Peter Irons ...
    Peter Irons, acclaimed historian and author of A People History of the Supreme Court, explores of one of the supreme court's most important decisions and its disappointing aftermathIn 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. So goes the conventional wisdom. Weaving together vivid portraits of lawyers and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Age of Betrayal

    by Jack Beatty ...
    Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed “a government of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD