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  • To Save Us All from Slavery's Power

    Republican Alarms, Southern Terrors, and the Plunge into Civil War

    by Mark Wahlgren Summers ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    A dramatic reappraisal and retelling of the destruction of the American UnionTo Save Us All from Slavery’s Power is a novel assessment of the culmination of the sectional crisis before the Civil War. It is a story of mutual misunderstanding, journalistic mendacity, and irreconcilable visions of the country’s future. With threats of disunion and rebellion rising in a thunderous chorus from the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion

    The Making of a President, 1884

    by Mark Wahlgren Summers ...
    The presidential election of 1884, in which Grover Cleveland ended the Democrats' twenty-four-year presidential drought by defeating Republican challenger James G. Blaine, was one of the gaudiest in American history, remembered today less for its political significance than for the mudslinging and slander that characterized the campaign. But a closer look at the infamous election reveals far more ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Party Games

    Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics

    by Mark Wahlgren Summers ...
    Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. In Party Games, Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the full story and admires much of the political carnival, but he adds a cautionary note about the dark recesses: vote-buying, election-rigging, blackguarding, news suppression, and violence.Summers also ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Ordeal of the Reunion

    A New History of Reconstruction

    by Mark Wahlgren Summers ...
    Series series Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
    For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important question, focusing on Reconstruction’s need to form an enduring Union without sacrificing the framework of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A Dangerous Stir

    Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction

    by Mark Wahlgren Summers ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears — often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process so dangerously out of kilter that the republic itself remained in peril.To understand ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Press Gang

    Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878

    by Mark Wahlgren Summers ...
    Relations between the press and politicians in modern America have always been contentious. In The Press Gang, Mark Summers tells the story of the first skirmishes in this ongoing battle. Following the Civil War, independent newspapers began to separate themselves from partisan control and assert direct political influence. The first investigative journalists uncovered genuine scandals such as ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Reconstruction after the Civil War

    by John Hope Franklin ...
    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    The classic work of American history by the renowned author of From Slavery to Freedom, with a new introduction by historian Eric Foner.First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin's revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule. Looking past dubious ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Franklin Pierce

    The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857

    by Michael F. Holt ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery.Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in a landslide against the imploding Whig Party, he proved a dismal failure in office.Michael F. Holt, a leading ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Wars of Reconstruction

    The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

    by Douglas R. Egerton ...
    A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Reconstruction

    A Concise History

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential Reconstruction, which was sympathetic to the former ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Great Decision

    Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court

    by Cliff Sloan, David McKean ...
    In 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. The presidential election between Adams and Jefferson was a bitterly contested tie, and the government neared collapse. The Supreme Court had no clear purpose or power -- no one had even thought to build it a courtroom in the new capital city. When Adams sought to prolong his policies in defiance of the electorate by packing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Road to Disunion

    Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861

    by William W. Freehling ...
    Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and much more ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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