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  • Jefferson's Wolf

    A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery

    by Christa Dierksheide, Nicholas Guyatt ...
    A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United States.Toward the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson made his most famous statement about American slavery: “We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go.” Presenting ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Amelioration and Empire

    Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas

    by Christa Dierksheide ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    Christa Dierksheide argues that "enlightened" slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as modern, cosmopolitan men with a powerful alternative vision of progress in the Atlantic world. Instead of radical revolution and liberty, they believed that amelioration—defined by them as gradual progress ... Read more

    $58.39 CAD

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    Beyond Jefferson

    The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America

    by Christa Dierksheide ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    A global history of how Thomas Jefferson's descendants navigated the legacy of the Declaration of Independence on both sides of the color lineThe Declaration of Independence identified two core principles—independence and equality—that defined the American Revolution and the nation forged in 1776. Jefferson believed that each new generation of Americans would have to look to the "experience of the ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rival Visions

    How Jefferson and His Contemporaries Defined the Early American Republic

    by Dustin Gish, Eran Shalev, Darren Staloff, Armin Mattes, Daniel Dreisbach, John A. Ragosta, Christa Dierksheide, Peter S. Onuf, Professor Jean Yarbrough, PhD0, Daniel Klinghard1, Charles F. Hobson2 ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    The emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and attentive observers abroad. Thomas Jefferson envisioned the newly independent states as a federation of republics united by common experience, mutual interest, and an adherence to principles of natural rights. His views on popular government and the ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD

  • The American Revolution at 250

    Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding

    by Brendan McConville, Annette Gordon-Reed, Eliga Gould, Christa Dierksheide, Professor Nicholas Guyatt, PhD, Professor Robert G. Parkinson, Professor Marlene L. Daut, Ph.D, Allison Bigelow, Peter S. Onuf, T. H. Breen, Professor Rosemarie Zagarri, PhD, John A. Ragosta, Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Professor Woody Holton, Professor Lauren Duval, Ricardo Herrera, Joanne B. Freeman, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Andrew M. Davenport, Patrick Griffin, Katherine Carté, Dr. Michael A. McDonnell, PhD, Teresa R Pollak ...
    Series series The Revolutionary Age
    The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States’ birthIn these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776 to the nation in 2026, offering fresh insights and food for thought on every page. They tackle the most pressing topics that Americans debated in ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Ireland and America

    Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty

    by Rache Banke, Trevor Burnard, Nicholas Canny, Christa Dierksheide, Matthew P. Dziennik, Professor S. Max Edelson, PhD, Annette Gordon-Reed, Robert G. Ingram, Peter S. Onuf, Jessica Roney, Gordon S. Wood, Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy, Eliga Gould, T. H. Breen ...
    Series series The Revolutionary Age
    Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic history interrogate anew the relationship between imperial reform and revolution in Ireland and America, offering fascinating insights into the imperial whole of which both places were a part. Revolution would eventually stem from the ways the Irish and ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

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  • The Great Contradiction

    The Tragic Side of the American Founding

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  • Lincoln and the Abolitionists

    John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War

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  • American Inheritance

    Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795

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