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On Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin found a fresh way into the most written-about figure in American history by looking at the men around him.
On Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin found a fresh way into the most written-about figure in American history by looking at the men around him.
On Reconstruction
Eric Foner wrote the definitive history of America's unfinished revolution, the years after the Civil War when the country tried, and then abandoned the attempt, to build a genuine multiracial...
On Reconstruction
Eric Foner wrote the definitive history of America's unfinished revolution, the years after the Civil War when the country tried, and then abandoned the attempt, to build a genuine multiracial...
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,...