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  • Suffrage Reconstructed

    Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era

    de Laura E. Free ...
    The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed considers how and why the amendment's authors made this decision. Vividly detailing congressional floor bickering and activist campaigning, Laura E. Free takes readers into the pre- and ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • Original Meanings

    Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    de Jack N. Rakove ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

    de R.B. Bernstein ...
    Here is a concise scholarly yet accessible 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Majesty of the Law

    Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice

    de Sandra Day O'Connor ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Shows us why Sandra Day O’Connor is so compelling as a human being and so vital as a public thinker.”—Michael BeschlossIn this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Suffrage

    Women's Long Battle for the Vote

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Right to Vote

    The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

    de Alexander Keyssar ...
    Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

    The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War

    de Eric Foner ...
    Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. Now with a new ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

    de Professor Akhil Reed Amar ...
    Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional wisdom about the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution in this incisive new account of our ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Until Justice Be Done

    America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    de Kate Masur ...
    **Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryFinalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeWinner of the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize • Winner of the John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History • Winner of the American Society for Legal History's John Phillip Reid Book AwardOne of NPR's Best Books of 2021 and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021A ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Power and Liberty

    Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

    de Gordon S. Wood ...
    New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States. The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Terror in the Heart of Freedom

    Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South

    de Hannah Rosen ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to all persons born in the United States and suffrage was extended to all men. Hannah Rosen persuasively ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD