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  • Lowcountry Agricultural and Convivial Societies

    Where Planters Came Together in Antebellum Georgetown, South Carolina

    By the Antebellum period, rice had dominated the local economic, political, and social patterns of South Carolina's Lowcountry for nearly two hundred years. This book explores the purpose of the social organizations as well as the moral, economic, cultural, and political challenges of the Georgetown rice planters. Within the protected confines of their organizations, planters felt safe discussing ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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  • American Slavery: History in an Hour

    de Kat Smutz ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the breadth of the subject without sacrificing important historical and cultural details.An important ... Leer más

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  • The Half Has Never Been Told

    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • From Midnight to Dawn

    The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

    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 ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Signing Their Lives Away

    The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

    Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group of statesmen, soldiers, slaveholders, and scoundrels who signed this historic document—and the many strange fates that awaited them. Some prospered and rose to the highest levels of United States government, while others had their homes and farms seized by British soldiers. Signer George Wythe was poisoned by his nephew; Button ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Complicity

    How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

    A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery“The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation’s closet.”—San Francisco ChronicleThe North’s profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Rebels Rising

    Cities and the American Revolution

    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 ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Union

    The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

    de Colin Woodard ...
    By the bestselling author of American Nations and Nations Apart, the story of how the myth of U.S. national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us todayUnion tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, ... Leer más

    Antes $14.99 USD Ahora $7.99 USD

  • The Wars of Reconstruction

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

    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 ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Reconstruction

    A Concise History

    The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential Reconstruction, which was sympathetic to the former ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Madness Rules the Hour

    Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War

    de Paul Starobin ...
    From Lincoln's election to secession from the Union, this compelling history explains how South Carolina was swept into a cultural crisis at the heart of the Civil War."The tea has been thrown overboard -- the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." -- Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Black History For Beginners

    de Denise Dennis ...
    Series series For Beginners
    What is Black History? Did you know what blacks were in Cortez’s crew in Mexico, with Pizarro in Peru and Alvarado in Quito…that when Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean, 30 black people were with him….that when Alarcon and Coronado conquered Mexico, black people were with them too?Any misunderstandings between blacks and whites in today’s society tend to stem from the misconceptions about blacks ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD