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  • We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

    Dorothy Sterling, Mary Helen Washington

    Paperback

    "A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free."--Dorothy B. Porter, curator emeritus, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

  • Robert E. Lee: A Biography

    Emory M. Thomas

    Paperback

    "The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of Books

  • God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

    Jonathan D. Spence

    Paperback

    "A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity."--Washington Post Book World

  • At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995

    George F. Kennan

    Paperback

    “Thoughtful critiques of many of the major issues confronting American foreign policymakers in the 1980s and early ‘90s. . . .Kennan’s voice is unique, tempered by three decades of life in Stalinist Europe and informed by a deep, unmatched knowledge of Russia’s people and history.” —Matthew DallekBoston Book Review

  • John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism

    Alan Ryan, Edwin Burrage Child

    Paperback

    When John Dewey died in 1952, he was memorialized as America's most famous philosopher, revered by liberal educators and deplored by conservatives,...