Douglas R Egerton: 9 books
Year of Meteors
Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
"Egerton tells the story of the dissolution of the Union as it should be told, not from the perspective of those looking back on the crisis, but from the clouded vision of those who lived through it.†? -Carol Berkin, author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution and Civil...
Death or Liberty
African Americans and Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations,...
Gabriel's Rebellion
The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that underlay two related Virginia slave revolts: the first, in 1800, led by the slave known as Gabriel; and...
The Wars of Reconstruction
The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.
By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after...
He Shall Go Out Free
The Lives of Denmark Vesey
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, S.C., for his role in planning one of the largest slave uprisings in the United States. During his long, extraordinary life Vesey played many roles—Caribbean field hand, cabin boy, chandler's man, house servant, proud freeman, carpenter, husband,...
Thunder at the Gates
The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of...
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens
Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were...
Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries
Collected Essays and Second Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.
by Peter Stern, Gary L. Hewitt, Michael D. Green
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The importance of the South in the development of the United States has always been clear, but in recent decades the rise of the sunbelt-politically, economically, and culturally-has made the significance of the region's history all the more apparent. In The Human Tradition in the Old South, Professor...