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  • Runaway America

    Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution

    Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Slavery's Constitution

    From Revolution to Ratification

    "A historian finds the seeds of an inevitable civil war embedded in the 'contradictions, ambiguities, and silences' about slavery in the Constitution." — Kirkus ReviewsTaking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the US Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

    A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

    A New York Times notable book of 2023 | A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography | Winner of the 2024 George Washington Prize“[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher’s] interpretations equal Wheatley’s own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement.” —Tiya Miles, The Atlantic“Thoroughly researched, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Forever Wars

    The imperial anxieties of the American elite.Featuring a roundtable on Iran with Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, Naghmeh Sohrabi, and Alex Shams.Also in this issue:Dispatches from Tehran, Beirut, Baghdad, and the West BankOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on ending elite impunityDavid Waldstreicher on America at 250Harsha Walia on how not to abolis... ... Leer más

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  • John Quincy Adams: Speeches & Writings (LOA #390)

    **21 essential works trace a great statesman’s lifelong engagement with the promise of America and the legacy of the Founding Fathers“Few presidents ever thought about words as carefully as John Quincy Adams. Thankfully, we can now hear his words again, in this instantly essential volume.”—Ted Widmer, historian and former presidential speechwriter**John Quincy Adams was one of the most ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic

    The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis (1949-2018) transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions history and reframed traditional understandings of the founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution. As significant as her work was within each of these subfields, her most remarkable ... Leer más

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  • Revolutions and Reconstructions

    Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Edición de Van Gosse, David Waldstreicher ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Revolutions and Reconstructions gathers historians of the early republic, the Civil War era, and African American and political history to consider not whether black people participated in the politics of the nineteenth century but how, when, and with what lasting effects. Collectively, its authors insist that historians go beyond questioning how revolutionary the American Revolution was, or ... Leer más

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  • Revolutions and Reconstructions

    Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Edición de Van Gosse, David Waldstreicher ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Revolutions and Reconstructions gathers historians of the early republic, the Civil War era, and African American and political history to consider not whether black people participated in the politics of the nineteenth century but how, when, and with what lasting effects. Collectively, its authors insist that historians go beyond questioning how revolutionary the American Revolution was, or ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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    The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

    A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

    Narrado por Kim Staunton ...

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    17 hora 1 minutos

    Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the Bible, Greek and Latin translations, and the works of Pope and ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Founders

    New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic

    In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans, as well as the Adamses, Jeffersons, and Jacksons, all ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Historians on Hamilton

    How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past

    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 ... Leer más

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  • John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery

    Selections from the Diary

    In the final years of his political career, President John Quincy Adams was well known for his objections to slavery, with rival Henry Wise going so far as to label him "the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed." As a young statesman, however, he supported slavery. How did the man who in 1795 told a British cabinet officer not to speak to him of "the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD