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  • In Dependence

    Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America

    by Jacqueline Beatty ...
    Series series Early American Places
    Examines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives of womenPatriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women’s rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women in this period exploited these confines, transforming constraints into vehicles of female empowerment. Through a close reading of thousands of legislative, judicial, and institutional pleas across ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • The Gendered Republic

    Reimagining Identity in the New Nation

    by Jamie Myers, Ashley E. Moreshead, Antwain K. Hunter, Jacqueline Beatty, Kenneth E. Marshall, Steven Peach, Lynn Kennedy, Shannon C. Eaves, Joshua A. Lynn, Rachel Walker, Rachel Hope Cleves, Stephanie J. Richmond, Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch, Professor Timothy J. Williams, PhD ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    An authoritative assessment of the early American republic through the lens of genderWhat does it mean to study early American history through gender? The essays in this collection, written by the best emerging and established historians in the field, bring together women’s history with masculinity studies to showcase the transformative impact of gender history on our understanding of the early ... Read more

    $32.49 CAD

  • Women Waging War in the American Revolution

    by Benjamin Carp, Patrick Mullins, Professor Barbara Mann, PhD, Professor Lauren Duval, Steven Elliott, Sean Heuvel, Don Hagist, Martha J. King, Professor Lorri Glover, Carin Bloom, Todd W. Braisted, Jacqueline Beatty, Alisa Wade ...
    America’s War for Independence dramatically affected the speed and nature of broader social, cultural, and political changes including those shaping the place and roles of women in society. Women fought the American Revolution in many ways, in a literal no less than a figurative sense. Whether Loyalist or Patriot, Indigenous or immigrant enslaved or slave-owning, going willingly into battle or ... Read more

    $32.49 CAD

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    by David Barton ...
    This book is very timely for one of the most frequently debated issues in America: the separation of church and state. Where did this phrase originate? Was it always meant to prohibit expressions of religious faith in public settings as many claim today? Learn the answers to these questions and discover the Founding Fathers own words and intents in this book! With all these resources, you will be ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Mothers

    Women in the Struggle for America's Independence

    by Carol Berkin ...
    **A groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that “vividly recounts Colonial women’s struggles for independence—for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves.... [Her] lively book reclaims a vital part of our political legacy" (**Los Angeles Times Book Review).The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Majority Finds Its Past

    Placing Women in History

    by Gerda Lerner ...
    Lauded for its contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women’s history and for its sensitivity to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, The Majority Finds Its Past became a classic volume in women’s history following its publication in 1979. This edition includes a foreword by Linda K. Kerber, introducing a new generation of readers to Gerda ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • You Never Forget Your First

    A Biography of George Washington

    by Alexis Coe ...
    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book….Coe examines myths with mirth, and writes history with humor… [You Never Forget Your First] is an accessible look at a president who always finishes in the first ranks of our leaders.” —Boston GlobeAlexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he is not quite the man ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Southern Honor

    Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

    by Bertram Wyatt-Brown ...
    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Slave No More

    Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

    by David W. Blight ...
    The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation.Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new addition to this imperative part of American history—the firsthand accounts of two slaves, John Washington ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • And the Spirit Moved Them

    The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists

    by Helen LaKelly Hunt ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author of Getting the Love You Want sends out a 'call for renewed feminist action, based on "the spirit and ethic of love'" ( Kirkus Reviews).A decade before the Seneca Falls Convention, black and white women joined together at the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women in the first instance of political organizing by American women for American women. ... Read more

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  • A People's History of the American Revolution

    How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

    by Ray Raphael ...
    "The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read." —Howard ZinnUpon its initial publication, Ray Raphael's magisterial A People's History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR's Fresh Air as "relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental." With impeccable skill, Raphael presented a wide array of fascinating scholarship within a single volume, employing a bottom-up approach that has ... Read more

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  • Bound in Wedlock

    Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

    by Tera W. Hunter ...
    Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryWinner of the Joan Kelly Memorial PrizeWinner of the Littleton-Griswold PrizeWinner of the Mary Nickliss PrizeWinner of the Willie Lee Rose PrizeAmericans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This ... Read more

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