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  • Nat Turner, Black Prophet

    A Visionary History

    by Anthony E. Kaye ...
    "Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account." —Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post"An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, even lyrical writer." —David W. Blight, Los Angeles TimesA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year | One of Literary Hub's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the YearA bold reinterpre... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Second American Revolution

    The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic

    by Gregory P. Downs ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely civil — meaning national — and not merely a war, but instead an international conflict of ideas as well as armies. Its implications transformed the U.S. Constitution and reshaped a world order, as political and economic systems grounded in slavery and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • After Appomattox

    Military Occupation and the Ends of War

    by Gregory P. Downs ...
    “Original and revelatory.”—David Blight, author of Frederick DouglassAvery O. Craven Award FinalistA Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of the YearIn April 1865, Robert E. Lee wrote to Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender terms he would discuss. The distinction proved prophetic.After Appomattox reveals ... ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Declarations of Dependence

    The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908

    by Gregory P. Downs ...
    In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence. Through an examination of the pleas and petitions of ordinary North Carolinians, Declarations of Dependence contends that the Civil War redirected, not destroyed, claims of dependence ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The World the Civil War Made

    Edited by Gregory P. Downs, Kate Masur ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily life of the entire nation. In an expansive reimagining of post–Civil War America, the essays in this volume explore these profound changes not only in the South but also in the Southwest, in the Great ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877

    Edited by Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright ...
    "I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of GrassThe American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent ... Read more

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  • Dangerous Nation

    by Robert Kagan ...
    Series Book 1 - Dangerous Nation Trilogy
    Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their global power and influence from the beginning. Driven by commercial, territorial, and idealistic ... Read more

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  • The Fires of Jubilee

    Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

    by Stephen B. Oates ...
    "A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America's history"—with the full text of The Confessions of Nat Turner ( New York Times).In August of 1831, the enslaved carpenter and preacher Nat Turner led an anti-slavery uprising in Virginia. It lasted several days before state militias captured Turner and put him on trial. Before he was executed, Turner ... Read more

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  • What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    by Daniel Walker Howe ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Women, Race, & Class

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    **From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.“Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—**The New York TimesAngela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from ... Read more

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  • The Fearless Benjamin Lay

    The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

    by Marcus Rediker ...
    The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his ... Read more

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  • El Norte

    The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

    by Carrie Gibson ...
    A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads.Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and ... Read more

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