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Slavery and Four Years of War
A Political History of Slavery in the United States together with a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War in Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
Slavery: Its Political History in the United States, (I.) Introductory — (II.) Introduction of Slavery into the Colonies — (III.) Declaration of Independence — (IV.) Continental Congress: Articles of Confederation — (V.) Ordinance of 1787 — (VI.) Constitution of the United...
by Alexander Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Unfortunately, one of the best known aspects of Alexander Hamilton’s (1755-1804) life is the manner in which he died, being shot and killed in a famous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. But Hamilton became one of the most instrumental Founding Fathers of the United States in that time, not only in helping...
Slave Nation
How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
"A radical, well-informed, and highly original reinterpretation of the place of slavery in the American War of Independence."-David Brion Davis, Yale University
In 1772, the High Court in London brought about the conditions that would end slavery in England by freeing a black slave...
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
**Winner of the Lincoln Prize
"Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books**
Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln...
Harry and Arthur
Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
With Franklin Roosevelt’s death in April of 1945, Vice President Harry Truman and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader on foreign policy, inherited a world in turmoil. With Europe flattened and the Soviets emerging as America’s new adversary, Truman and Vandenberg built a tight partnership...
National History and the World of Nations
Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, Christopher L. Hill reveals how the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. The three countries, occupying widely different positions...
by John Clark Ridpath
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
To the American youth the history of our country is more important than any other branch of education. A fair degree of knowledge respecting the progress of the American people from the discovery of the New World to the present is almost essential to that citizenship into which our youth are soon...
The United States Constitution
The Full Text with Supplementary Materials
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The basis of our nation's law and government, the Constitution is America's most important political and social document. This convenient and inexpensive reference contains not only the Constitution's main text and amendments but also a wealth of background information.
Supplements include selected...
The Folly of Empire
What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roos
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The New York Times hailed John B. Judis's The Emerging Democratic Majority as "indispensable." Now this brilliant political writer compares the failure of American imperialism a century ago with the potential failure of the current administration's imperialistic policies.
One hundred years...
by Willard C. MacNaul
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 July 4, 1826)[1] was the third President of the United States (18011809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the...
by Simon Wolf, Louis Edward Levy, Editor
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Dedication Editor's Preface Introduction Jewish Patriots of the Revolutionary Period (Introductory) ...
by Jonathan Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 was both an economic catastrophe and a watershed event in world politics. In American Power after the Financial Crisis, Jonathan Kirshner explains how the crisis altered the international balance of power, affecting the patterns and pulse of world politics....
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
*Includes the full text of the Dred Scott decision and every opinion written by the Supreme Court justices. *Analyzes the Dred Scott decision and its impact on future civil rights cases.*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. *Includes a Table of Contents. "The question is simply...
United States-Cuban Relations
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
United States-Cuban Relations breaks new ground in its treatment of this long and tumultuous relationship. The overall approach, mirroring the political science background of both authors, does not focus on historical detail that has been provided by many other works, but rather on a broad analysis...