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“michael les benedict”

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  • The Greatest and the Grandest Act

    The Civil Rights Act of 1866 from Reconstruction to Today

    by Michael Vorenberg, Rebecca Zietlow, Michael Les Benedict, Millington Bergeson-Lockwood, Aaron Astor, Jeff Strickland, Owen Williams, Richard Aynes, George Rutherglen, Darrell A.H. Miller ...
    In this volume ten expert historians and legal scholars examine the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first federal civil rights statute in American history. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were citizens without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery. Designed to give the Thirteenth Amendment practical effect as former slave states enacted laws limiting the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Blessings of Liberty

    A Concise History of the Constitution of the United States

    by Michael Les Benedict ...
    This concise, accessible text provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. Constitutional historian Michael Benedict stresses the role that the American people have played over time in defining the powers of government and the rights of individuals and minorities. He covers important trends and events in U.S. ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Sources in American Constitutional History

    Edited by Michael Les Benedict ...
    In the second revised and expanded edition of this invaluable reader, Michael Les Benedict draws together the important documents that have shaped and been shaped by the American Constitution from medieval times through the present day. It includes not only the most important Supreme Court decisions, but also key American declarations, resolutions, laws, and platforms. All these documents ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • 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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  • Constitutional Myths

    What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right

    by Ray Raphael ...
    Americans on both sides of the aisle love to reference the Constitution as the ultimate source of truth. But which truth? What did the framers really have in mind? In a book that author R.B. Bernstein calls “essential reading,” acclaimed historian Ray Raphael places the Constitution in its historical context, dispensing little-known facts and debunking popular preconceived notions.For each myth, ... Read more

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  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    by Eric Foner ...
    “A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston GlobeSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Us Constitution, Declaration Of Independence, Articles Of Confederation, Bill Of Rights, And Guide To Us Government (Mobi Study Guides)

    by MobileReference ...
    US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights, and Guide to US GovernmentTABLE OF CONTENTS:I. Constitution (text only) Preamble and Articles Bill of Rights Subsequent AmendmentsII. Constitution (with analysis) Constitution: Preamble Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 Article 4 Article 5 Article 6 Article 7 Amendments: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ... Read more

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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

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  • The Real Lincoln

    A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

    by Thomas J. Dilorenzo ...
    A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary WarMost Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, ... Read more

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  • Making Our Democracy Work

    A Judge's View

    by Stephen Breyer ...
    The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the nine unelected justices of the Court have the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions as legitimate and follow them, even when those decisions are highly ... Read more

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  • 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

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