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  • The Battle Hymn of the Republic

    A Biography of the Song That Marches On

    by John Stauffer, Benjamin Soskis ...
    It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001. Perhaps no other song has held such a profoundly significant--and contradictory--place in America's history and cultural memory than ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Giants

    The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

    by John Stauffer ...
    A dual biography of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln: two preeminent self-made men of their times, who, in reinventing themselves, transformed a nation."A perfect starting place for those [with an] interest in two of American history's most important figures." — Washinton PostAbraham Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than one year of formal schooling, and became the nation's greatest ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Black Hearts of Men

    Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race

    by John Stauffer ...
    At a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Battle Hymn of the Republic

    A Biography of the Song That Marches On

    by John Stauffer, Benjamin Soskis ...
    It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001. Perhaps no other song has held such a profoundly significant--and contradictory--place in America's history and cultural memory than ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The State of Jones

    by Sally Jenkins, John Stauffer ...
    New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War—the real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Picturing Frederick Douglass

    An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American

    by John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Kenneth B. Morris Jr ...
    Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeA landmark and collectible volume—beautifully produced in duotone—that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force” (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (LOA #394)

    Edited by John Stauffer ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century
    **The first volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary formA diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, representing work by fifty different writers**As much a nineteenth-century American invention as the cotton gin and the steamboat, the short story emerged here with a range of innovation and a variety of ... Read more

    $45.19 CAD

  • The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 (LOA #395)

    Edited by John Stauffer ...
    Series Book 2 - Library of America The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century
    **The second volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary formA diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, representing work by fifty different writers**As much a nineteenth-century American invention as the cotton gin and the steamboat, the short story emerged here with a range of innovation and a variety of ... Read more

    $45.19 CAD

  • Prophets Of Protest

    Reconsidering The History Of American Abolitionism

    Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, John Stauffer ...
    The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical impulses of white, male, middle-class reformers, obscuring the contributions of many African ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Abolitionist Imagination

    by Andrew Delbanco, John Stauffer, Manisha Sinha, Wilfred M. McClay ...
    Series Book 3 - The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics
    The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring and courageous reformers who hastened the end of slavery. But Andrew Delbanco sees abolitionists in a different light, as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Prophets of Protest

    Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism

    Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, John Stauffer ...
    "These essays will change our understanding not only of abolitionism, but of American society itself." —Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorThe campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Protest Literature

    by Howard Zinn ...
    Series Book 99 - The John Harvard Library
    “I like a little rebellion now and then”—so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD