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  • Mobtown Massacre

    Alexander Hanson and the Baltimore Newspaper War of 1812

    Series series True Crime
    Winner of the 2020 Baltimore History Prize, this is a gripping account of how a Federalist editor risked his life to defend his anti-war views.With a bitterly divided nation plunged into the War of 1812, Alexander Hanson penned an anti-war editorial that provoked a violent standoff that crippled the city of Baltimore and left Hanson beaten within an inch of his life. This little-known episode in ... Read more

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  • Computational Frameworks for Political and Social Research with Python

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book is intended to serve as the basis for a first course in Python programming for graduate students in political science and related fields. The book introduces core concepts of software development and computer science such as basic data structures (e.g. arrays, lists, dictionaries, trees, graphs), algorithms (e.g. sorting), and analysis of computational efficiency. It then demonstrates ... Read more

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  • The Boston Gentlemen's Mob

    Maria Chapman and the Abolition Riot of 1835

    Violent mobs, racial unrest, attacks on the press--it's the fall of 1835 and the streets of Boston are filled with bankers, merchants and other "gentlemen of property and standing" angered by an emergent antislavery movement. They break up a women's abolitionist meeting and seize newspaper publisher William Lloyd Garrison. While city leaders stand by silently, a small group of women had the ... Read more

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    Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era

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  • The President and the Freedom Fighter

    Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNow with a new epilogue, the thrilling story of how Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass changed America, from the New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.**In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade tells the little-known story of how two American heroes moved from strong ... Read more

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  • The Life of Andrew Jackson

    The classic one-volume abridgement of the National Book Award–winning biography of the 7th U.S. president, from an esteemed historian."A wonderful portrait, rich in detail, of a fascinating and important man and an authoritative . . . account of his role in American History." — New York Times Book ReviewRobert V. Remini's acclaimed three-volume biography The Life of Andrew Jackson won the National ... Read more

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    Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy

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  • Fateful Lightning

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    The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion in property. The war also sparked some of the most heroic moments in American history and enshrined a galaxy of American heroes. Above all, it ... Read more

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  • Civil War Stories

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    This fascinating compendium examines the legacy of the War Between the States.At the Washington Post, the Civil War has held an enduring fascination for both readers and writers. Raging from 1861 to 1865, the War Between the States has left a lasting imprint on the United States's collective psyche for 150 years. Civil War Stories: A 150th Anniversary Collection aggregates historical data with ... Read more

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  • A Vast and Fiendish Plot:

    The Confederate Attack on New York City

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