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  • The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (LOA #394)

    Edited by John Stauffer ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century
    **The first volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary formA diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, representing work by fifty different writers**As much a nineteenth-century American invention as the cotton gin and the steamboat, the short story emerged here with a range of innovation and a variety of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • My Bondage and My Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    “My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, “[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War.” As his narrative unfolds, Frederick Douglass—abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Prophets of Protest

    Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism

    Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, John Stauffer ...
    "These essays will change our understanding not only of abolitionism, but of American society itself." —Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorThe campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Giants

    The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

    by John Stauffer ...
    A dual biography of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln: two preeminent self-made men of their times, who, in reinventing themselves, transformed a nation."A perfect starting place for those [with an] interest in two of American history's most important figures." — Washinton PostAbraham Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than one year of formal schooling, and became the nation's greatest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prophets Of Protest

    Reconsidering The History Of American Abolitionism

    Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, John Stauffer ...
    The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical impulses of white, male, middle-class reformers, obscuring the contributions of many African ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

    A Library of America Paperback Classic

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    One of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) is a powerful account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Frederick Douglass was born. It brought him to the forefront of the antislavery ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Black Hearts of Men

    Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race

    by John Stauffer ...
    At a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The State of Jones

    by Sally Jenkins, John Stauffer ...
    New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War—the real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • The Battle Hymn of the Republic

    A Biography of the Song That Marches On

    by John Stauffer, Benjamin Soskis ...
    It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001. Perhaps no other song has held such a profoundly significant--and contradictory--place in America's history and cultural memory than ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 (LOA #395)

    Edited by John Stauffer ...
    Series Book 2 - Library of America The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century
    **The second volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary formA diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, representing work by fifty different writers**As much a nineteenth-century American invention as the cotton gin and the steamboat, the short story emerged here with a range of innovation and a variety of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Pathfinder

    by James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Berger ...
    The third novel in James Fennimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, starring the heroic Natty Bumppo.Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Portable Frederick Douglass

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leaderThis compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize–nominated ... Read more

    $14.99 USD