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The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America by Paul E. Johnson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.99 Your price: $16.64 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Black Indian Slave Narratives by Patrick Neal Minges Publisher Comments 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) List Price $4.99 Your price: $4.43 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People out of Doors by Benjamin H. Irvin Publisher Comments 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) List Price $34.95 Your price: $32.33 Google eBooks - Electronic
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In Lieu of a Draft: A History of the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment by Lochard H. Lovenstein Publisher Comments 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) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America by Barbara Smith Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.95 Your price: $23.03 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May Publisher Comments The classic book on private life during the Cold War—fully revised and updated for the twentieth anniversary edition.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $18.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cotton Picking Boy: 1932 through 1936 by Alvin H. Clement Publisher Comments 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) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation by Alfred F. Young Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $15.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Oklahoma City: What the Investigation missed--and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $15.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence by Carol Berkin Publisher Comments A thought-provoking study of the vital part played by women during the Revolutionary War details their diverse roles raising funds, disseminating propaganda, managing businesses and homes, and serving as nurses, spies, warriors, and saboteurs, profiling... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments Presents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, business strategist, and statesman while tracing his life as one of America's Founding Fathers.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant by William Moraley Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $14.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen a. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union by Fergus M. Bordewich Publisher Comments The riveting story behind the Compromise of 1850, which brought together two generations of Senate luminaries in a last effort to preserve the Union.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s by Maurice Isserman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.80 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cold War Civil Rights by Mary L. Dudziak Publisher Comments In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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