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“richard aynes”

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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

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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

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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

    $13.99 USD

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  • America's Constitution

    A Biography

    by Akhil Reed Amar ...
    This “authoritative [and] important” (The New York Times Book Review) “biography” of America’s framing document explores topics ranging from presidential power and freedom of speech to birthright citizenship and beyond, explaining not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it.“Elegantly written, thorough but concise, and consistently enlightening . . . an indispensable ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Plain, Honest Men

    The Making of the American Constitution

    by Richard Beeman ...
    In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the extent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, most explosive of all, ... Read more

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  • A People's History of the Supreme Court

    The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution: Revised Edition

    by Peter Irons ...
    A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court featuring a forward by Howard ZinnRecent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's classic A People's ... Read more

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  • Ratification

    The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

    by Pauline Maier ...
    The defining book of the American Revolution era and a winner of the George Washington Book Award, Ratification chronicles the pivotal moments and key figures in transforming the US Constitution from an idea into a transformational document and the Constitutional Convention into a working government.When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • James Buchanan

    The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861

    by Jean H. Baker ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the brink of Civil WarAlmost no president was as well trained and well prepared for the office as James Buchanan. He had served in the Pennsylvania state legislature, the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate; he was Secretary of State and was even offered a seat on the Supreme Court. And yet, by every measure except his own, James Buchanan was a ... Read more

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  • The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

    by R. B. Bernstein ...
    Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Scorpion's Sting

    Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

    by James Oakes ...
    A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition: they would surround the slave states with a cordon of freedom, constricting slavery and inducing the social crisis in which the peculiar institution ... Read more

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  • Suffrage

    Women's Long Battle for the Vote

    by Ellen Carol DuBois ...
    Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this “indispensable” (Ellen Chesler, Ms. magazine) book explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists.Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. ... Read more

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  • A Well-Regulated Militia : The Founding Fathers And The Origins Of Gun Control In America

    by Saul Cornell ...
    Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong. Cornell, a leading ... Read more

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