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  • The Age of Lincoln

    by Orville Vernon Burton ...
    Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age's most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most profound. The enduring legacy of the age of Lincoln was inscribing personal liberty into the nation's millennial aspirations.America has always ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Justice Deferred

    Race and the Supreme Court

    by Orville Vernon Burton, Armand Derfner ...
    “[A] learned and thoughtful portrayal of the history of race relations in America…authoritative and highly readable…[An] impressive work.”—Randall Kennedy, The Nation“This comprehensive history…reminds us that the fight for justice requires our constant vigilance.”—Ibram X. Kendi“Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its historical and legal analysis…makes an invaluable contribution to our ... Read more

    $28.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Essential Lincoln

    Speeches and Correspondence

    Edited by Orville Vernon Burton ...
    Eloquent, humble, and shrewd, Abraham Lincoln was one of America's greatest presidents, and The Essential Lincoln brings together his most defining speeches, public and private correspondence, and personal notations in one slim, handsome volume. Lincoln historian Orville Vernon Burton has culled the thousands of pages of the complete works of Lincoln for the most compelling and revealing pieces. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • In My Father's House Are Many Mansions

    Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina

    by Orville Vernon Burton ...
    Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond. From amassed information on every household in this large rural community, he tests the many generalizations about southern black and white families of this period and finds that they were strikingly similar. Wealth, rather than race or class, was the main factor that influenced family ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Battlefield and Beyond

    Essays on the American Civil War

    by Orville Vernon Burton, Paul D. Escott, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Rosemarie Zagarri, Alan M. Kraut, Leonne Hudson, Michael Connolly, Daniel E. Sutherland, Emory M. Thomas, David Kyvig, Judith Gentry, Herman Hattaway, Ken Nivison, Jane Turner Censer ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne M. Hudson, and Daniel E. Sutherland delve into the master-slave relationship, the role of blacks in ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Cause at Heart: A Former Communist Remembers

    by Junius Irving Scales, Richard Nickson, Telford Taylor, Vernon Burton, James R. Barrett, Barbara Scales ...
    Born in 1920 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Junius Scales, whose great-uncle had been governor of the state, grew up in the privileged environment of his family’s estate. The only black people he knew were the servants. Wanting to improve the lot of workers, mainly African-American, he joined the Communist Party in 1939 while at the University of North Carolina, seeing in the Party an opportunity ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

  • Toward the Meeting of the Waters

    Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Winfred B. Moore Jr., Orville Vernon Burton ...
    2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA provocative look into civil rights progress in the Palmetto State from activists, statesmen, and historiansToward the Meeting of the Waters represents a watershed moment in civil rights history—bringing together voices of leading historians alongside recollections from central participants to provide the first comprehensive history of the civil right... ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Penn Center

    A History Preserved

    by Orville Vernon Burton, Wilbur Cross ...
    The Gullah people of St. Helena Island still relate that their people wanted to “catch the learning” after northern abolitionists founded Penn School in 1862, less than six months after the Union army captured the South Carolina sea islands. In this broad history Orville Vernon Burton and Wilbur Cross range across the past 150 years to reacquaint us with the far-reaching impact of a place where ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Becoming Southern Writers

    Essays in Honor of Charles Joyner

    Edited by Orville Vernon Burton, Eldred E. Prince Jr. ...
    Southern writers, historians, and artists celebrate the life and career of a beloved mentor, friend, and colleagueEdited by southern historians Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prince, Jr., Becoming Southern Writers pays tribute to South Carolinian Charles Joyner's fifty year career as a southern historian, folklorist, and social activist. Exceptional writers of fact, fiction, and poetry, the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Struggle for Equality

    Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction

    Edited by Orville Vernon Burton, Jerald Podair, Jennifer L. Weber ...
    This collection of essays, organized around the theme of the struggle for equality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, also serves to honor the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson. Complete with a brief interview with the celebrated scholar, this volume reflects the best aspects of McPherson’s work, while casting new light on the struggle that has served as ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    Justice Deferred

    Race and the Supreme Court

    by Orville Vernon Burton, Armand Derfner ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 4 min

    The Supreme Court is usually seen as protector of our liberties: it ended segregation, was a guarantor of fair trials, and safeguarded free speech and the vote. But this narrative derives mostly from a short period, from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Before then, the Court spent a century largely ignoring or suppressing basic rights, while the fifty years since 1970 have witnessed a mostly ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Age of Lincoln

    by Orville Vernon Burton ...
    Narrated by Rich Mock ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 59 min

    Distinguished historian Orville Vernon Burton suggests that, while abolishing slavery was the age's most extraordinary accomplishment, it was the inscribing of personal liberty into the nation's millennial aspirations that was its most profound.America had always perceived providence in its progress, but in the 1840s and 1850s, a pessimism accompanied a marked extremism. Even amidst historic ... Read more

    $39.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook