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On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.80Interweaving 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: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.45This 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: $39.98Booksplease Price: $24.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069488Author Annette Gordon-ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 192Impri -
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed 9780813918334
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25When 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 9781631492518
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.91Thomas 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... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691154336
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.07Derided 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... -
American Slavery, American Freedom Edmund S Morgan 9781324105206
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.01In 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.51From 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... -
Heart of American Darkness: A Story of Murder and Revolution on the Early Frontier Robert G. Parkinson 9781324123408
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.94In 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... -
Thomas Jefferson's Education Alan Taylor (University of Virginia) 9780393358575
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96By 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: $15.20A 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 Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson 9780393974072
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06This 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: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00From 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: $24.45Booksplease Price: $21.68"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... -
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America Matthew Stewart 9781324105039
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96This 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
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $19.29Finalist 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... -
White Power: Policing American Slavery Gautham Rao 9781469694849
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $22.77Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders' violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction,... -
Demetrius: Sacker of Cities by James Romm 9780300274165
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.96A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again "This colorful biography of Demetrius . . . explores his rich inner life and... -
Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality by Deborah N. Archer 9781324130567
Booksplease Price: $18.09Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in... -
Charleston: Race, Water and the Coming Storm by Susan Crawford 9781911648543
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75An unflinching look at Charleston, a beautiful, endangered port city, founded by English settlers in 1669 as a hub of the sugar and slave trades, which now, as the waters rise, stands at the... -
Hamilton: The Energetic Founder by R. B. Bernstein 9780190081980
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $18.00In Hamilton: The Energetic Founder, R. B. Bernstein provides a thorough history that reveals Hamilton's status as one of the key founding fathers of the United States. Hamilton: The Energetic... -
Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past by Professor Ana Lucia Araujo 9781350048492
Booksplease Price: $33.05Named one of The Best Black History Books of 2020Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory:... -
Everyone Knows But You: A Tale of Murder on the Maine Coast by Thomas E. Ricks 9781639366798
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38An FBI agent finds himself in the insular world of a fishing village on the Maine coast where the rules are different-sometimes lethally so.After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash,... -
Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past by Thomas A. Foster
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.23Biographers, journalists, and satirists have long used the subject of sex to define the masculine character and political authority of America's Founding Fathers. Tracing these commentaries on the... -
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEARA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our... -
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life by Jonathan Alter 9781501125546
Booksplease Price: $22.85From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United... -
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana by Alejandro de la Fuente
Booksplease Price: $143.10How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves... -
The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero by Michael Kranish
Booksplease Price: $18.69In this "sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend" (Publishers Weekly)-the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world's fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim... -
The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9781631495977
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.03Who do you think you are? That's a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self,... -
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Munoz Martinez
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $22.01Winner of the Caughey Western History PrizeWinner of the Robert G. Athearn AwardWinner of the Lawrence W. Levine AwardWinner of the TCU Texas Book AwardWinner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book... -
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight 9781416590316
Booksplease Price: $37.72**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped... -
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY****WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown AwardFinalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography of one of... -
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay 9780674278622
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $19.30Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the David J. Langum PrizeWinner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Order of the Coif Book AwardWinner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation AwardA New... -
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne 9781631491665
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.89Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X-all...