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  • A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in A

    by Michael McGerr ...
    The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking; women suffragists, who marched in the streets until they finally achieved the vote; Andrew Carnegie ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

    by Michael McGerr ...
    With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence on the country to start its own revolution. Before the Progressive Era most Americans lived on farms, working from before sunrise to after sundown every day except Sunday with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

    by Michael McGerr ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 22 min

    The Progressive Era witnessed the nation's most convulsive upheaval, a time of radicalism far beyond the Revolution or anything since. In response to the birth of modern America, one small group of middle-class Americans seized control of the nation and attempted to remake society from bottom to top. They accomplished an astonishing range of triumphs, yet the progressive movement collapsed as the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    What Hath God Wrought

    The Transformation of America, 1815–1848

    by Daniel Walker Howe ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    32 hours 50 min

    In this addition to the esteemed Oxford history series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era of revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. He examines the era’s politics but contends that John Quincy Adams and other advocates of ... Read more

    $41.95 USD

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  • Democracy in Chains

    The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

    by Nancy MacLean ...
    **Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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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

    $18.09 USD

  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    by David R. Roediger ...
    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • When and Where I Enter

    The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

    by Paula J. Giddings ...
    A history of the African American woman's experience in America and an analysis of the relationship between sexism and racism.When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influences of African American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how ... Read more

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  • Shadows Present, Deeper Shadows to Come

    by Alan W Hobbs ...
    In the wake of the Civil War, a bruised and battered America stands at a perilous crossroads. The year is 1877, and though the guns of Appomattox have fallen silent, their long shadows still stretch across the soul of a divided nation.Shadows Present, Deeper Shadows to Come is a gripping, cinematic exploration of an empire in the making. As smokestacks rise like iron cages over a rapidly ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Workshop of Democracy, 1863–1932

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 2 - The American Experiment
    The second volume of Burns's acclaimed history of America, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great DepressionAbraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address pointed to a new way to preserve an old hope—that democracy might prove a vibrant and lasting form of government for people of different races, religions, and aspirations. The scars of the Civil War would not soon heal, but with that ... Read more

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  • A History of Women in America

    From Founding Mothers to Feminists-How Women Shaped the Life and Culture of America

    by Carol Hymowitz, Michaele Weissman ...
    From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed the roles and lives of women in our society.Note: This edition does not include photographs. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Reader's Companion to American History

    Edited by Eric Foner, John A. Garraty ...
    An A-to-Z historical encyclopedia of US people, places, and events, with nearly 1,000 entries "all equally well written, crisp, and entertaining" ( Library Journal).From the origins of its native peoples to its complex identity in modern times, this unique alphabetical reference covers the political, economic, cultural, and social history of America.A fact-filled treasure trove for history buffs, ... Read more

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