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On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.58Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle and searing episodes of memoir, On Juneteenth recounts the origins of the holiday that celebrates the emancipation of those who had been... -
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.85This epic work-named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times-tells the story of the... -
Andrew Johnson by Professor of Law Annette Gordon-Reed 9780805069488
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £20.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069488Author Annette Gordon-ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times... -
Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir by Annette Gordon-Reed 9781586486709
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00As a young college student in Atlanta, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. had a summer job driving a white banker around town. During the man's post-luncheon siestas, Jordan passed the time reading books, a fact... -
Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History by Annette Gordon-Reed 9780195122800
RRP: £48.49Booksplease Price: £33.00This book of twelve original essays will bring together two themes of American culture: law and race. The essays fall into four groups: cases that are essential to the history of race in America;... -
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed 9780813918334
Booksplease Price: £20.13When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects... -
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"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed 9780871404428
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.47Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as an enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom, even as he... -
A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume I, Western Slavery, National Impasse by Jeffrey L. Pasley
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.50Many of the original essays in this volume began as papers presented at an international conference sponsored by the Missouri Humanities Council and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy,... -
Kinship & Community: Highlights from the Texas African American Photography Archive by Nicole R. Fleetwood 9781597115636
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £33.55Celebrating the rich history of photography made by and for Black communities in Texas.Kinship & Community presents an inspiring example of collective self-representation from the final decades of... -
Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours Peter S. Onuf 9781324098072
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.28Fifty years after signing the Declaration of Independence, John Adams reassured the nation from his deathbed, "Thomas Jefferson survives". Unaware that Jefferson had died hours earlier, Adams was in... -
Framing a Legend: Exposing the Distorted History of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings by M. Andrew Holowchak 9781616147297
Booksplease Price: £24.49A penetrating critical perspective on the question of Thomas Jefferson's paternity that will make you rethink recent conventional wisdom. It is accepted by most scholars that Jefferson had a... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691154336
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his... -
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie 9780393338331
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.09With a novelist's skill and a scholar's meticulous detail, Fawn M. Brodie portrays Thomas Jefferson as he wrestled with the great issues of his time: revolution, religion, power, race, and... -
American Slavery, American Freedom Edmund S Morgan 9781324105206
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.74In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and equality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them... -
Jefferson on Race: A Reader by Thomas Jefferson 9780691122069
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.72From The New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson's writings on race that every American should... -
Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America Christa Dierksheide 9780300226522
Booksplease Price: £25.74A global history of how Thomas Jefferson's descendants navigated the legacy of the Declaration of Independence on both sides of the color line The Declaration of Independence identified two core... -
Ghosts of the African Diaspora - Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity by Joanne Chassot 9781512601602
Booksplease Price: £36.05The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary... -
Heart of American Darkness: A Story of Murder and Revolution on the Early Frontier Robert G. Parkinson 9781324123408
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.50In this startingly original work, Robert Parkinson presents a new account of ever-shifting encounters between white colonists and Native Americans. Drawing skilfully on Joseph Conrad's famous... -
Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance by Peter S. Onuf
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.42This new edition of Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance, originally published in 1987, is an authoritative account of the origins and early history of American policy for... -
The American Revolution at 250: Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding Francis D. Cogliano 9780813954622
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.79The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States' birth In these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the... -
Thomas Jefferson's Education Alan Taylor (University of Virginia) 9780393358575
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares centre stage with his family... -
A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor 9780230341982
Booksplease Price: £11.78A New York Times bestseller, A Slave in the White House received glowing reviewsthatpraised its narrative and original research. It is the story of Paul Jennings, who was born into slavery on the... -
The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery by Brooke N. Newman 9780063290976
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.06For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy—from... -
1,000 Days in America: An Illustrated History of the Moments That Defined a Nation National Geographic 9781426224393
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.73This lavish narrative, curated by National Geographic, collects 1,000 seminal moments in U.S. history alongside more than 300 stunning illustrations, timelines, and sidebars. Commentary by... -
Slavery and the American South by Winthrop D. Jordan 9781604731996
Booksplease Price: £20.70In 1900 very few historians were exploring the institution of slavery in the South. But in the next half century, the culture of slavery became a dominating theme in Southern historiography. In the... -
Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial by Steven Lubet 9780674047044
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.56During the tumultuous decade before the Civil War, no issue was more divisive than the pursuit and return of fugitive slaves-a practice enforced under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. When free Blacks... -
The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West by Andrew R. Graybill 9780871408570
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.59At dawn on January 23, 1870, four hundred men of the Second U.S. Cavalry attacked and butchered a Piegan camp near the Marias River in Montana in one of the worst slaughters of Indians by American... -
The Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson 9780393974072
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55This Norton Critical Edition seeks to give readers a full understanding of Thomas Jefferson's importance to the intellectual development of the United States, particularly in political theory and... -
The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency by David M Rubenstein 9781668067628
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein-David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top... -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby 9780674237834
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.81"Fascinating and instructive...King's philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy."-Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin... -
How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents by Talmage Boston 9781637586976
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £21.45How the Best Did It is an accessible and insightful explanation of how the most important leadership traits from America's eight greatest presidents can be implemented by today's leaders. "A... -
The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History Michael D. Hattem 9780300270877
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.29The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries Americans agree that their nation's origins lie in the... -
Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution by Woody Holton
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.58A "deeply researched and bracing retelling" (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans-women,... -
Informing a Nation: The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson by Melvin Laracey
Booksplease Price: £63.25During his presidency, Thomas Jefferson both sponsored and wrote for his own newspaper, the National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser. The newspaper spoke on behalf of his policies and those... -
The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America by T H Breen
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £13.85"Important and lucidly written...The American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity of ordinary people."-Gordon S. WoodIn this boldly... -
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America Matthew Stewart 9781324105039
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92This is a story about a dangerous idea-one which ignited revolutions in America, France and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of... -
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren
Booksplease Price: £15.05Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America's... -
Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation by Jack M. Balkin 9780300272222
Booksplease Price: £25.74From one of the nation's preeminent constitutional scholars, a sweeping rethinking of the uses of history in constitutional interpretation Fights over history are at the heart of most important... -
Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation by Jack M. Balkin 9780300276435
Booksplease Price: £103.45From one of the nation's preeminent constitutional scholars, a sweeping rethinking of the uses of history in constitutional interpretation Fights over history are at the heart of most important... -
<i>Near Andersonville</i>: Winslow Homer's Civil War by Peter H. Wood 9780674053205
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.18The admired American painter Winslow Homer rose to national attention during the Civil War. But one of his most important early images remained unknown for a century. The renowned artist is best...