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  • Free Frank

    A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier

    by Juliet E.K. Walker ...
    The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary.We first learn details of Frank's life when ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Building the Black Metropolis

    African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago

    by Jason Chambers, Marcia Chatelain, Will Cooley, Robert Howard, Christopher Robert Reed, Myiti Sengstacke Rice, Clovis E. Semmes, Juliet E. K. Walker, Robert Weems Jr., Robert E. Weems Jr.0 ...
    Series series New Black Studies Series
    From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton and Jesse Binga to McDonald’s operators to black organized crime, the scholars shed light on the long ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Slave's Cause

    A History of Abolition

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    "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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  • The Return of George Washington

    Uniting the States, 1783–1789

    by Edward J. Larson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" ( Philadelphia Inquirer): Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.After leading the Continental Army to victory in the ... Read more

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  • Apostles of Disunion

    Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

    by Charles B. Dew ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • From Midnight to Dawn

    The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

    by Jacqueline L. Tobin ...
    From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history by giving us the true stories behind well-known figures such as Harriet Tubman and John Brown. She ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Bone and Sinew of the Land

    America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality

    by Anna-Lisa Cox ...
    The long-hidden stories of America's black pioneers, the frontier they settled, and their fight for the heart of the nationWhen black settlers Keziah and Charles Grier started clearing their frontier land in 1818, they couldn't know that they were part of the nation's earliest struggle for equality; they were just looking to build a better life. But within a few years, the Griers would become ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Summer of 1787

    The Men Who Invented the Constitution

    by David O. Stewart ...
    The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation—then and now.George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Seward

    Lincoln's Indispensable Man

    by Walter Stahr ...
    From the acclaimed author of John Jay: Founding Father comes the illuminating and fascinating biography of the leader of Lincoln’s “team of rivals” and one of the most important Americans of the 19th century.William Henry Seward was one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. Progressive governor of New York and outspoken US senator, he was the odds-on favorite to win the 1860 ... Read more

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  • The Minutemen and Their World

    by Robert A. Gross ...
    Series series American Century
    The Bancroft Prize–winning classic of American history now in a revised and expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author.On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the height of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Revolutionary Founders

    Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation

    Edited by Alfred F. Young, Ray Raphael, Gary Nash ...
    In twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. Here is a fresh new reading of the American Revolution that gives voice and recognition to a generation of radical thinkers and doers whose revolutionary ideals outstripped those of the Founding Fathers.While the Founding Fathers advocated a break from Britain and espoused ideals ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Wars of Reconstruction

    The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

    by Douglas R. Egerton ...
    A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD