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  • Athens on the Frontier

    Grecian-Style Architecture in the Splendid Valley of the West, 1820-1860

    by Patrick Lee Lucas ...
    Series series Material Worlds
    In 1811, architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe spurred American builders into action when he called for them to reject "the corrupt Age of Dioclesian, or the still more absurd and debased taste of Louis the XIV," and to emulate instead the ancient temples of Greece.In response, people in the antebellum trans-Appalachian region embraced the clean lines, intricate details, and stately symmetry of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    by Grace Elizabeth Hale ...
    Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rebels Rising

    Cities and the American Revolution

    by Benjamin L. Carp ...
    The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists, who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics, debated the issues of the day in taverns, and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work, historian Benjamin L. Carp shows how these various urban meeting places provided the tinder and spark for the American ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • A Distinct Alien Race

    The Untold Story of Franco-Americans, Industrialization, Immigration, Religious strife

    by David Vermette ...
    Americans don’t think of Canada as a source of potential terrorists—speaking a foreign tongue, serving a foreign religion, and invading their country. But when a million French-Canadians crossed the border between 1840 and 1930, many seeking work in New England’s burgeoning textile industry, they were cast as foot soldiers in an alleged Roman Catholic plot. A Distinct Alien Race places these ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tom Paine's Iron Bridge

    Building a United States

    by Edward G. Gray ...
    The little-known story of the architectural project that lay at the heart of Tom Paine’s political blueprint for the United States.In a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having “a better hand at pulling down than building.” Adams’s dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray shows in this fresh, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Smashing Statues

    The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

    by Erin L. Thompson ...
    A leading expert on the past, present, and future of public monuments in America.An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up and which should come down? Who should make these ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Manliness and Its Discontents

    The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930

    by Martin Summers ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production. Examining both the public and private aspects of gender formation, Summers challenges the current ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • William Wells Brown

    An African American Life

    by Ezra Greenspan ...
    **A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Biography'A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century.**Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone’s, “rented” out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the young man ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Mystic Chords of Memory

    The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    Mystic Chords of Memory"Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic."—Washington Post Book WorldIn this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Promised Land

    History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond

    Edited by Boulou de b'Beri, Nina Reid-Maroney, Handel K. Wright ...
    Series series African & Diasporic Cultural Studies
    Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday lives and professional activities of individuals and families in these communities and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, D.C.

    A History & Guide

    by Michael Curtis ...
    A look at the statues, monuments, and buildings of the classically designed capital city—from the National Mall to Colonial Alexandria.Classical design formed our nation's capital. The soaring Washington Monument, the columns of the Lincoln Memorial and the spectacular dome of the Capitol Building speak to the founders' comprehensive vision of our federal city. Learn about the L'Enfant and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Society for Useful Knowledge

    How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America

    by Jonathan Lyons ...
    Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America-an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the “first Drudgery” of settling the American colonies now past, Franklin announced in 1743, it was time the colonists set about improving the lot of humankind through collaborative inquiry. From Franklin's idea emerged the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD