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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.92More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again... -
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Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] by Eric Foner 9780062370860
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062370860Author Eric FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner 9780393340662
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.09Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American... -
Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner 9780062354518
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.56Newly Reissued with a New Introduction: From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War... -
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War: With a new Introductory Essay by Eric Foner 9780195094978
Booksplease Price: $29.00Foner has written a new introduction that puts his argument in the book into context of contemporary scholarship.Book InformationISBN 9780195094978Author Eric FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 398< -
Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly 9780446697101
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.54GALWAY BAY is the story of an Irish family that has been shaped by the traditional elements of Ireland in the decade leading up to the 1840's--the tales, music, humor, community, and religious... -
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies Kinshasha Holman Conwill 9780063160644
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $16.55The companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric... -
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future George Yancy 9798216371014
Booksplease Price: $23.18A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences TitleFrom Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book."Award-winning author, scholar, and social... -
Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History by Paul A. Cimbala
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23"These essays provide a rich portrait of how the self and its deepest commitments have driven some of the most important, vital scholarship of the last fifty years." -Georgia Historical Quarterly". ... -
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 9780140390155
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct,... -
Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings From The American Revolution: A Library of America Paperback Classic by Thomas Paine
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $11.22An authoritative collection of Thomas Paine's essential writings on American politics and governance-including the landmark Revolutionary War pamphlet, Common Sense After a life of obscurity and... -
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson 9780393328516
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.91In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs... -
Slavery's Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation by Richard Follett 9781421402369
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.00President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights... -
From Dissertation to Book by William Germano 9780226062044
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $18.99When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake. "You know something!" I would say if it could hear me. "Now tell it to us in... -
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Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader by Herbert Aptheker 9780252077265 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $2.71This reader collects fourteen influential essays by Herbert Aptheker (1915-2003) on the African American experience. Written with passion and eloquence, they are full of ideas originally dismissed by... -
No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding, With a New Preface by Sean Wilentz 9780674241428
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $21.30"Wilentz brings a lifetime of learning and a mastery of political history to this brilliant book."-David W. Blight, author of Frederick DouglassA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Foreign... -
The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction by Rebecca E. Zietlow 9781107095274
Booksplease Price: $72.41Congressman James Mitchell Ashley, a member of the House of Representatives from 1858 to 1868, was the main sponsor of the Thirteenth Amendment to the American Constitution, which declared the... -
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon 9781982148287
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $16.95Winner, American Battlefield Trust Prize for History Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography A "compelling portrait" (Jon... -
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.01Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the nineteenth century, Plessy v. Ferguson. The 1896 ruling embraced racial segregation, and its... -
The Civil War in 50 Objects by Harold Holzer 9780143128144
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.25The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil WarFrom a soldier's diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown's pike, the... -
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor 9780393349733
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom's swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships... -
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.03WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATUREEconomist BOOKS... -
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development by Sven Beckert
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.34During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human... -
Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America by Daniel R. Biddle
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.88Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia's best black baseball team, a teacher at the city's finest black school and an... -
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.93**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... -
Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.21A "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century's greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice... -
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 by Mike Wallace 9780195116359
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.73In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent... -
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A Promised Land by Barack Obama 9780241491515 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $3.47THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.'Gorgeously written, humorous,... -
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Booksplease Price: $55.82THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.'Gorgeously written, humorous,... -
Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography by Noah Van Sciver 9781786636874
Booksplease Price: $17.11Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party in the early twentieth-century to federal and state office across the country, helped to pioneer a fighting union politics that organized all workers, and... -
The Ground Breaking: An American City and its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 **'Fast-paced but nuanced ... impeccably researched ... a much-needed book' The Guardian''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that... -
Illiberal America: A History by Steven Hahn 9781324110507
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.41A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob... -
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White
RRP: $40.62Booksplease Price: $34.77The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian... -
Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation by Jim Downs
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the... -
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J. H. Elliott
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.76This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H... -
The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick
Booksplease Price: $26.70"Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the... -
Lincoln and the Election of 1860 by Michael S. Green 9780809330362
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Abraham Lincoln looms large in American memory. He is admired for his many accomplishments, including his skills as an orator and writer, his Emancipation Proclamation, and his unswerving leadership... -
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $21.68Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's... -
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... -
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs 9780674293861
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $19.30"Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-changing book."-Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of...