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14 produkter
Bound for Canaan
The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America''s First Civil Rights Movement,
E-bok, 2009
90 kr
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"Well written, moving . . . stimulating," this account of racially unified abolitionism "could provide the occasion for a constructive national conversation" (New York Times). The civil war brought to a climax the country''s bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery''s denouement can be traced …
Washington
The Making of the American Capital
E-bok, 2009
101 kr
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Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place once described as a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," and which was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of …
Killing the White Man's Indian
Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 1997
193 kr
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My Mother's Ghost: A Courageous Woman, a Son's Love, and the Power of Memory
Häftad, 2002
273 kr
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Congress at War
How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America
E-bok, 2020
158 kr
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The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict. This brilliantly argued new perspective on the Civil War overturns the popular conception that Abraham Lincoln single-handedly led the Union to …
Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America's Future
Inbunden, 2026
359 kr
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America's Great Debate
Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union
E-bok, 2012
196 kr
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The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present-day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for admission to the Union. But the U.S. Senate was …
First Congress
How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
E-bok, 2016
213 kr
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This “fascinating” ( Chicago Tribune ), “lively” ( The New York Times ) history tells how the First Congress and the Washington administration created one of the most productive and far-reaching governments in American history—“gracefully written…and well worth reading” ( The Wall Street Journal ). …
