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  • Avenging the People

    Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation

    by J.M. Opal ...
    Most Americans know Andrew Jackson as a frontier rebel against political and diplomatic norms, a "populist" champion of ordinary people against the elitist legacy of the Founding Fathers. Many date the onset of American democracy to his 1829 inauguration. Despite his reverence for the "sovereign people," however, Jackson spent much of his career limiting that sovereignty, imposing new and often ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Beyond the Farm

    National Ambitions in Rural New England

    by J. M. Opal ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionaries who espoused self-sacrifice. After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the creation of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Beyond the Farm

    National Ambitions in Rural New England

    by J. M. Opal ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionaries who espoused self-sacrifice. After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the creation of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Slave's Cause

    A History of Abolition

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    "Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America."— Florida CourierReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period ... Read more

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  • Ebony and Ivy

    Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

    by Craig Steven Wilder ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

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  • American Visions

    The United States, 1800-1860

    by Edward L. Ayers ...
    **“An inspiring book.… American Visions beautifully shows how remarkably resilient dreams of a better republic remained even in the darkest of times.” —Christoph Irmscher, Wall Street JournalA revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today.**With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or ... Read more

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  • The Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian History, 1868-1967

    by Nina Reid-Maroney ...
    After her conversion at a Baptist revival at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October evening in 1909 she stood before a group of Free Will Baptist preachers in the small town of Goblesville, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Liberty Tree

    Ordinary People and the American Revolution

    by Alfred F Young ...
    The renowned historian offers a "subtle, complex, and bold" reassessment of the American Revolution in this acclaimed essay collection (Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States).In Liberty Tree, Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey through the American ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southern Honor

    Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

    by Bertram Wyatt-Brown ...
    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Runaway America

    Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution

    by David Waldstreicher ...
    Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise ... Read more

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  • All or Nothing

    A Short History of Abstinence in America

    by Jessica Warner ...
    A completely original exploration of the abstinence movement in America — from alcohol to sex to meat.America's long love affair with abstinence goes back to the early nineteenth century, when thousands of men and women suddenly stopped drinking hard liquor. Consistency then demanded that they give up all their other vices — beer and cider, tobacco, coffee, meat, pickles, pies, masturbation, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Invisible Sovereign

    Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Mark G. Schmeller ...
    Series series New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
    This history of early American political thought examines the emergence, evolution, and manipulation of public opinion.In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent—and ambiguous—invention. While appearing to promise a new style of democratic politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices, stall deliberation, and marginalize ... Read more

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