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Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction by Richard S. Newman
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.63The abolitionist movement launched the global human rights struggle in the 18th and 19th centuries and redefined the meaning of equality throughout the Atlantic world. Even in the 21st century, it... -
Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present by Richard S. Newman
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $43.72In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing... -
The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic by Richard S. Newman 9780807849989
Booksplease Price: $83.43How abolitionism evolved from an elite and conservative movement to a radical, grassroots reform cause; Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison... -
Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present by Richard S. Newman 9780195374834
RRP: $70.33Booksplease Price: $66.44In the spring of 1978, citizens of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump -- a sixteen acre site containing 100,000 barrels of... -
Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers by Richard S. Newman
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22Gold Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography Category Brings to life the inspiring story of one of America's Black Founding Fathers, featured in the forthcoming... -
Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers by Richard S. Newman 9780814758267
Booksplease Price: $190.83Gold Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography Category Brings to life the inspiring story of one of America's Black Founding Fathers, featured in the forthcoming... -
Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776-1821 by Gary J. Kornblith 9780742550964
Booksplease Price: $79.40Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776-1821 focuses on slavery as a moral and political issue that threatened the unity and stability of the United States from the nation's... -
Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776-1821 by Gary J. Kornblith 9780742550957
Booksplease Price: $171.09Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776-1821 focuses on slavery as a moral and political issue that threatened the unity and stability of the United States from the nation's... -
The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal by Mark S. Ferrara 9780231216388
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.45The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade, drove the rise of... -
The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal by Mark S. Ferrara 9780231216371
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $159.18The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade, drove the rise of... -
The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851 by Winston James 9780814742891
Booksplease Price: $190.20"If I know my own heart, I can truly say, that I have not a selfish wish in placing myself under the patronage of the [American Colonization] Society; usefulness in my day and generation, is what I... -
The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851 by Winston James 9780814742907
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30"If I know my own heart, I can truly say, that I have not a selfish wish in placing myself under the patronage of the [American Colonization] Society; usefulness in my day and generation, is what I... -
The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 2: Since 1877 by Joseph L. Locke
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.66"I too am not a bit tamed-I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online,... -
The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877 by Joseph L. Locke
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.66"I too am not a bit tamed-I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online,... -
The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution by Gary B. Nash 9780674021938
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $37.59As the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American. The experiences of these men and women have been largely ignored in the accounts of the...