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  • Wolf by the Ears

    The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821

    Series series Witness to History
    "In this engaging work, Van Atta . . . provides an in-depth analysis of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, a seminal event on the road to the Civil War." — ChoiceIn Wolf by the Ears, John R. Van Atta discusses how the question of slavery surfaced in the divisive fight over Missouri statehood. As Thomas Jefferson wrote at the time, a nation dealing with the politically implacable issue of slavery ... Leer más

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  • Charging Up San Juan Hill

    Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America

    Series series Witness to History
    "Sheds new light on the history of Theodore Roosevelt and the legendary exploits of his illustrious 'cowboy' regiment?the Rough Riders." —Bonnie M. Miller, author of From Liberation to ConquestAt the turn of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt personified American confidence. A New York City native and recovered asthmatic who spent his twenties in the wilds of the Dakota Territory, Roosevelt ... Leer más

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  • The Day They Hanged Old Brown

    The Making of Celebrity and Martyrdom in the Civil War Era

    Abolitionist, fanatic, terrorist, freedom fighter, alleged murderer—all of those labels fit John Brown. Yet he also qualified as a mid-nineteenth-century celebrity. Reserved only for a few, celebrity in Brown’s time was, in historian Carolyn Eastman’s words, a quality “of being well known, an attribute, a degree of popularity and fame—the state of being celebrated by others,” as Brown certainly ... Leer más

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  • Securing the West

    Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850

    Series series Reconfiguring American Political History
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    Series Libro 3 - Theodore Roosevelt
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  • Frederick Douglass

    Prophet of Freedom

    * Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History *“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man ... Leer más

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  • A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]

    de Eric Foner ...
    From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work of Civil War history on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery, a pivotal ... Leer más

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  • The American Experiment

    The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom

    Series series The American Experiment
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    Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech

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  • What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    Series series Oxford History of the United States
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