History of the United States: A 30-Volume Anthology assembles a capacious, argumentative record of the American past, ranging from colonial settlement and constitutional debate to westward expansion, civil conflict, military history, reform, and national self-definition. Its materials move among documentary testimony, political argument, narrative history, biographical writing, and civic instruction. Foundational debates over federal power and liberty stand beside accounts of war, frontier...

Story of Our Nation: Defining Moments In American History assembles a capacious documentary and interpretive record of the United States, tracing political founding, territorial expansion, warfare, civic reform, and contests over citizenship. Its range encompasses speeches, constitutional arguments, memoiristic testimony, historical narrative, military studies, and social commentary. Foundational debates over federal power and liberty stand beside accounts of conflict, nation-building, and...

Go beyond Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and get to know the real Alexander Hamilton in this Library of America collection of the Founding Father’s own public and private writings.A brash immigrant who rose to become George Washington’s right-hand man. A fierce partisan whose nationalist vision made him Thomas Jefferson’s bitter rival. An unfaithful husband whose commitment to personal honor brought his life to a tragic early end. The amazing succe...

Delve into the lives of the patriots who shaped the birth of a nation with "A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration Of Independence, and of Washington And Patrick Henry" by Samuel Butler. This illuminating biography offers a captivating glimpse into the lives, struggles, and triumphs of the men who dared to defy tyranny and forge a new path for freedom.As Butler recounts the stories of these remarkable figures, questions arise: What inspired their courage an...

The object of this work has been from historical data to show that the Southern States had rightfully the power to withdraw from a Union into which they had, as sovereign communities, voluntarily entered; that the denial of that right was a violation of the letter and spirit of the compact between the States; and that the war waged by the Federal Government against the seceding States was in disregard of the limitations of the Constitution, and destructive of the principles of the Declarat...

More than any other single man, George Washington was responsible for bringing success to the American Revolution. But because of the heroic image in which we have cast him and which already enveloped him in this own lifetime, Washington is and was a hard man to know.In this book Edmund S. Morgan pushes past the image to find the man. He argues that Washington's genius lay in his understanding of both military and political power. This understanding of power was un...

Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.Collection of 14 Works of Abraham Lincoln________________________________________First Inaugural AddressLincoln LettersLincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and LettersLincoln's Second Inaugural AddressState of the UnionThe Emancipation ProclamationThe Life and Public Servi...

Martin Robison Delany's The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People offers a comprehensive examination of the social and political circumstances that confronted African Americans during the mid-19th century. Delany's work is an essential contribution to the disciplines of historiography and anthropology in that it provides insight into how African Americans negotiated a range of pressing issues including slavery, civil rights and economic freedom.

"To say he is ugly is nothing. To add that his figure is grotesque is to convey no adequate impression.""He is destined to occupy in history…a quaintness, originality, courage, honesty, magnanimity and popular force of character such as have never heretofore…"These starkly different 19th century newspaper depictions describe one and the same man: Abraham Lincoln. Nearly 150 years after his death, Lincoln is universally considered our most beloved U.S. president. Yet in his ow...

Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do. Here is a panoramic look at early American history as captured in the words of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe a...

Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused of participating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he is a source of ongoing dissension between northerners and southerners. This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of his writings culled in large part fro...