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  • Revolutionary Networks

    The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789

    by Joseph M. Adelman ...
    Series series Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
    An engrossing and powerful story about the influence of printers, who used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization.Honorable Mention, St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize, Bibliographical Society of AmericaDuring the American Revolution, printed material, including newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and broadsides, played a ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Historians on Hamilton

    How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past

    by Renee C. Romano, Claire Bond Potter, William Hogeland, Joanne B. Freeman, Lyra D. Monteiro, Leslie M. Harris, Catherine Allgor, Michael O'Malley, David Waldstreicher0, Jeffrey L. Pasley1, Andrew M. Schocket2, Elizabeth L. Wollman3, Brian Eugenio Herrera4, Jim Cullen5, Joseph M. Adelman6, Patricia Herrera7 ...
    America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how is the show itself making history?Historians on Hamilton brings together a collection of top scholars to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class — including merchants, doctors, and teachers — that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over ... Read more

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  • The Slave's Cause

    A History of Abolition

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    "Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America."— Florida CourierReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period ... Read more

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  • Stamped from the Beginning

    The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    A National Book Award winnerThe New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.**“An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.” -**Washington PostSome Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—... ... Read more

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  • The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

    Memory and the American Revolution

    by Alfred F. Young ...
    George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was ... Read more

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  • The 1619 Project

    A New Origin Story

    by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY ... Read more

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  • How the Irish Became White

    by Noel Ignatiev ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    '…from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, AmherstThe Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded ... Read more

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  • Four Hundred Souls

    A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, ... Read more

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  • Ebony and Ivy

    Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

    by Craig Steven Wilder ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was ... Read more

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  • Stony the Road

    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug." —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book ReviewA profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans ... Read more

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  • Teaching White Supremacy

    America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

    by Donald Yacovone ...
    **A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University“Stunning, timely . . . an achievement ... Read more

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