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On The Second Founding
Eric Foner argues that the United States was founded twice, and that the second founding mattered as much as the first.
On The Second Founding
Eric Foner argues that the United States was founded twice, and that the second founding mattered as much as the first.
On These Truths
Jill Lepore set out to do something almost no historian still attempts: to tell the whole story of the United States in a single volume, organized around a single question.
On These Truths
Jill Lepore set out to do something almost no historian still attempts: to tell the whole story of the United States in a single volume, organized around a single question.
On The Radicalism of the American Revolution
We tend to think of the American Revolution as a relatively conservative affair, a tax revolt that swapped a king for a congress while leaving society much as it was.
On The Radicalism of the American Revolution
We tend to think of the American Revolution as a relatively conservative affair, a tax revolt that swapped a king for a congress while leaving society much as it was.
On The Ideological Origins of the American Revo...
Bernard Bailyn answered a deceptively simple question and in doing so changed how we understand the founding: what were the revolutionaries actually thinking? The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution,...
On The Ideological Origins of the American Revo...
Bernard Bailyn answered a deceptively simple question and in doing so changed how we understand the founding: what were the revolutionaries actually thinking? The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution,...
On American Slavery, American Freedom
Edmund Morgan posed the central paradox of American history in his title and then spent a book explaining it.
On American Slavery, American Freedom
Edmund Morgan posed the central paradox of American history in his title and then spent a book explaining it.
On America's Constitution: A Biography
Akhil Reed Amar set out to do something surprisingly rare: to explain the Constitution clause by clause, in plain language, telling the story of where each provision came from and...
On America's Constitution: A Biography
Akhil Reed Amar set out to do something surprisingly rare: to explain the Constitution clause by clause, in plain language, telling the story of where each provision came from and...