History

Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters
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On the 250th anniversary of American independence, with the history of America’s founding a political battleground, this study of the ideas and battlefield sacrifices of 1776 could not be more timely

Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
eBook
A ground-breaking history that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially and racially for nearly two centuries

In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
eBook
A sweeping, 400-year history of American slavery and American capitalism told through the emergence, evolution and persistence of the plantation

A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War
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A harrowing new history of the American Civil War’s prisoner of war camps, North and South

Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
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An eye-opening portrait of Abraham Lincoln behind the scenes: here is the career-long party politician whose brilliant coalition-building during the Civil War set the political foundation for emancipation and Union victory


