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Guest of Honor
In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner becomes a lens through which to examine race, politics, and the lives and legacies of two of America's most iconic figures. In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T... (read more)
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Give Me Liberty!, 2nd Edition, Vol. 2
Featuring a single author and a single, comprehensive theme, Give Me Liberty!presents American history with unparalleled clarity and coherence. The study tools in the book and the companion print and electronic package ensure student success in the... (read more)
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America
America, now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The Brief Eighth Edition offers the attractive features of the full-length text'"lively and... (read more)
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Black Indian Slave Narratives
Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native Americans from other tribes. Recently historians have... (read more)
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Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty
In 1776, when the Continental Congress declared independence, formally severing relations with Great Britain, it immediately began to fashion new objects and ceremonies of state with which to proclaim the sovereignty of the infant republic. In this... (read more)
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Freedoms We Lost
The Freedoms We Lost is an ambitious historical analysis of the American revolution that reinterprets the gains and losses experienced by ordinary Americans and challenges the easy narrative that subsumes the growth of “freedom” into the... (read more)
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Cotton Picking Boy
Reader, be forewarned, no happy ending here. Most histories were written from the top, looking down. This is from the bottom up, by teenage boys and their observations on: black and white cotton pickers, planters versus workers, con men, hucksters, KKK... (read more)
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America
Used by over one million students, America: A Narrative History is one of the most successful American history textbooks ever published. Maintaining the features that have always distinguished this classic text—lively and accessible narrative style, a... (read more)
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American Scripture
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in... (read more)
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The Infortunate
William Moraley's autobiography, originally published in 1743, provides a rare view of life among the lower classes in England and the American middle colonies during the early eighteenth century. In 1729, Moraley ventured as an indentured servant from... (read more)
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America
America, now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The narrative wins students over with compelling storytelling, colorful anecdotes and... (read more)
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America Divided
Explores the tumultuous decade in American history, covering such topics as civil rights, Vietnam, the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, the war on poverty, marijuana usage, and the policies of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and... (read more)
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The Kingdom of Matthias
In the autumn of 1834, New York City was awash with rumors of a strange religious cult operating nearby, centered around a mysterious, self-styled prophet named Matthias. It was said that Matthias the Prophet was stealing money from one of his followers;... (read more)
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In Lieu of a Draft
In Lieu of a Draft: A History of the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment documents the daily chores of camp life and the long hours spent waiting to engage the enemy, Historian James I. Robertson, Jr. has noted that soldiers spent "more time in camp... (read more)
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The Presidents Club
The inside story of the world's most excusive fraternity: how the 43 men who have been President have partnered with and sabotaged one another.... (read more)
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Homeward Bound
The classic book on private life during the Cold War—fully revised and updated for the twentieth anniversary edition.... (read more)
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Revolutionary Founders
In twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. Here is a fresh new reading of the American Revolution that gives voice and recognition to a generation of radical thinkers and doers... (read more)
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Freethinkers
An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination (The New York Times) At a time when the separation of church and state is under... (read more)
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The Radical and the Republican
A narrative history of the Civil War looks at the lives and careers of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, two men who played iconic roles during the era and who had a profound impact on the Civil War, slavery and emancipation, and race and equality.... (read more)
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Oklahoma City
In the early morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove into downtown Oklahoma City in a rented Ryder truck containing a deadly fertilizer bomb that he and his army buddy Terry Nichols had made the previous day. He parked in a handicapped-parking... (read more)
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