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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States)
DescriptionThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the much respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series consists of three Pulitzer Award winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's much esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, proposes ...
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)
DescriptionThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the much respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer award-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States extended to the ...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Enlarged Edition, Now with "A True Tale of Slavery"
DescriptionThis enlarged edition of the much significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacob family saga, surely one of the much memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs' short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery," published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs' own autobiography. It is an ...
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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
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In this lively and compelling biography Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751–1831) went on to become America’s first full-time politician, ...
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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
DescriptionWhen James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle together with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which integrated what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, not yet part of the Union, was threatened by a extra great Mexico. And the territories north and west of Texas -- ...
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Lincoln at Peoria
DescriptionLincoln at Peoria explains how Lincoln's speech at Peoria on October 16, 1854, was the turning point in the development of his antislavery campaign and his political career and thought. Here, Lincoln detailed his opposition to slavery's extension and his determination to defend America's Founding document from those who denied this the ...
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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
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In this eye-opening companion volume to her acclaimed history Founding Mothers, number-one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts delivers to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Recounted together with insight and humor, and drawing on ...

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A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
DescriptionAn extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, groundbreaking portrait of the early days of the republic—and the birth of modern politics

When the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation’s newly minted capital. Into this unsteady ...

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Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today
DescriptionTwo of the much influential figures in American history. Two opposing political philosophies. Two radically different visions for America.

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were not including question two of the much important Founding Fathers. They were in addition the fiercest of rivals. Of these two political titans, it is Jefferson—–the ...
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Democracy In America
DescriptionEdited, together with an Introduction, by Thomas Bender
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