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Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War
“Egerton tells the story of the dissolution of the Union as it should be told, not from the perspective of those looking back on the crisis, but fro...
MAKING AMERICA: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF 6E, International Edition presents history as a dynamic process shaped by human expectations, di...
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 t...
The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Ege...
A History, 1400 - 1888
Before the voyage of Columbus in 1492, the Atlantic Ocean stood as a barrier to contact between the people (and their ideas and institutions), plants,...
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The Lives of Denmark Vesey
On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, S.C., for his role in planning one of the largest slave uprisings in the United States. Durin...
Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves
Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorializat...
Collected Essays and Second Thoughts
This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and w...
Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities
Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields contribute to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies, which ranges historica...
The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the E...
African Americans and Revolutionary America
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Ye...
The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America
An enthralling chronicle of the American nineteenth century told through the unraveling of the nation's first political dynasty John and Abigail Adams...
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. A...