<p align="left">This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (<i>New Republic</i>) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black a ...
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This is the most comprehensive history to date of the Truman Administration's progressive embroilment in the cold war, and it presents a stunning new interpretation of U.S. national security policy during the formative stages of the Soviet-American rivalry. Illustrated with 15 halftones and 10 maps.
Transcendentalist, Romantic, feminist- Margaret Fuller was nothing less than the first woman in America to establish herself as a dominant figure in highbrow culture at large. If there was one man or woman whose connections among gender, intellectual culture, and the avant-garde, it was Margaret Ful ...
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Brion Davis displayed his mastery not only of a vast source of material, but also of the highly complex, frequently contradictory factors that influenced opinion on slavery. He has now followed this up with a study of equal quality....No one has written a book about the abolition of slavery that car ...
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Transcendentalist, Romantic, feminist- Margaret Fuller was nothing less than the first woman in America to establish herself as a dominant figure in highbrow culture at large. If there was one man or woman whose connections among gender, intellectual culture, and the avant-garde, it was Margaret Ful ...
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This book begins in 1901, when Booker T. Washington at the age of forty-five was approaching the zenith of his fame and influence, and ends with his death in 1915. It is a biographical study in the sense that its focus is on the complex, enigmatic figure of Washington, the most powerful black minori ...
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On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these ...
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