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  • Slavery by Another Name

    The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

    This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in “The Age of Neoslavery.”By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning account reveals the stories of those who fought ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Color Of Abolition

    How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

    The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman—and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social movement.“Fresh, provocative and engrossing.” —New York TimesIn the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Napoleon of Crime

    The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners in the Castle, a dramatic portrait of the master thief of the nineteenth century: Adam Worth“Fascinating . . . a brisk, lively, colorful biography of an amazing criminal.”—The New York Times (Best Books of the Year)The Victorian era’s most infamous and iconic thief, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes’s Professor Moriarty, Adam Worth was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Black Hawk

    The Battle for the Heart of America

    This stirring chronicle of the 1832 Black Hawk War examines the forces struggling for control over the American frontier.The Sauk Nation once occupied one of North America's largest and most prosperous Indian settlements. The hundreds of acres along the Mississippi River were the envy of white Americans who had already begun to encroach upon the rich Indian land. When the conflicts between natives ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Demon of Unrest

    A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

    by Erik Larson ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times).“A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Charity and Sylvia

    A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

    Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant was raised in Massachusetts. A brilliant and strong-willed woman with a clear attraction for her ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

    Best Book Award • Mormon History AssociationA brilliant young historian excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, uncovering a “grand, underappreciated saga in American history” (Wall Street Journal).In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • John Adams

    In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Vigilance

    The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad

    The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia—the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon Line—helping hundreds of people escape from slavery.Born free in 1821 to two parents who had been enslaved, William Still was drawn to antislavery work from a young age. Hired ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Lessons from an American Stoic

    How Emerson Can Change Your Life

    by Mark Matousek ...
    Lessons from an American Stoic has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Long Pursuit

    Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America

    A study of the rivalry between two American politicians and how it transformed them & the nation they sought to lead in the dark days before the Civil War.“This intimate dual portrait of Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as young men . . . is a delight to read and a revealing journey through a mid-nineteenth-century America careening toward disaster.” —Kenneth Ackerman, author Young J. Edgar and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slave Narratives: Georgia, all four parts

    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slave Narratives: Mississippi

    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slave Narratives: Kentucky

    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slave Narratives: Florida

    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slave Narratives: Ohio

    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

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  • Slave Narratives: Arkansas, all seven parts

    Typewritten records prepared by the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, assembled by the Library of Congress Project, Work Projects Administration (WPA), sponsored by the Library of Congress, and first published in 1941. As explained in the introduction: "The present Library of Congress Project, under the sponsorship of the Library of Congress, is a unit of the Public Activities Program of the ... Read more

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  • Slave Narratives: Tennessee

    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slave Narratives: Indiana

    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slave Narratives: Kansas

    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empire of Cotton

    A Global History

    by Sven Beckert ...
    The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
 
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Patriots

    Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America

    by Winston Groom ...
    When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Three key founding fathers played significant roles: John Adams, the brilliant, dour New Englander; Thomas Jefferson, the aristocratic Southern renaissance man; and Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the Caribbean island of Nevis ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Summer of 1876

    Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West

    by Chris Wimmer ...
    From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narratives of the biggest legends in frontier mythology.The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West. Many individuals who are considered legends by modern readers were involved in events that began their notoriety or turned out to be the most famous — or ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What Kind of Nation

    Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Stru

    The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive and judicial branches of government. More than one hundred fifty years later, their clashes still reverberate in constitutional debates and political battles.In this dramatic and fully accessible account of these ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $3.99 USD