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  • The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States

    Series series Oxford Illustrated History
    The story of the United States, from Revolutionary War to Donald Trump The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States offers a completely fresh account of the founding and development of the American republic. Lavishly illustrated, drawing upon the latest scholarship, and with a more representative and diverse cast of characters than any previous study, the book charts the course of American ... Read more

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  • The Hated Cage

    An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison

    ‘Beguiling.’ The Times‘Compelling.’ Wall Street Journal‘A vivid portrait.’ Daily MailBuried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race.It's 1812 – Britain and America are at war. British redcoats torch the White House and six thousand American sailors languish in the world’s largest prisoner-of-war camp, Dartmoor. A myria... ... Read more

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  • Jefferson's Wolf

    A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery

    A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United States.Toward the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson made his most famous statement about American slavery: “We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him safely, nor let him go.” Presenting ... Read more

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  • The Hated Cage

    An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison

    A leading historian reveals the never-before-told story of a doomed British prison and the massacre of its American prisoners of warAfter the War of 1812, more than five thousand American sailors were marooned in Dartmoor Prison on a barren English plain; the conflict was over but they had been left to rot by their government. Although they shared a common nationality, the men were divided by race ... Read more

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  • Bind Us Apart

    How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

    Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution through the Civil War, most white liberals believed in the unity of all human beings. But their philosophy faltered ... Read more

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  • The American Revolution at 250

    Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding

    Series series The Revolutionary Age
    The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States’ birthIn these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776 to the nation in 2026, offering fresh insights and food for thought on every page. They tackle the most pressing topics that Americans debated in ... Read more

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America.Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and ... Read more

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  • These Truths

    A History of the United States

    by Jill Lepore ...
    **This "Jubilee Edition" includes a brand-new chapter on the Age of TrumpA New York Times, a Independent Press Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the YearIn the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation on its 250th anniversary.**Two hundred fifty years after the ... Read more

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  • The Slave's Cause

    A History of Abolition

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    "Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America."— Florida CourierReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period ... Read more

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  • Black and British

    A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'

    by David Olusoga ...
    Series series Picador Collection
    Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeWinner of the Longman History Today Trustees’ AwardLonglisted for the Orwell PrizeUnflinching and revealing, Black and British is a vital history that reveals how black British lives have been woven into the fabric of the nation for centuries – from Roman Britain to the Black Lives Matter protests.'Groundbreaking' – The Obser... ... Read more

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  • American Fascists

    The Christian Right and the War On America

    by Chris Hedges ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of the National Book Award finalist War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges challenges the Christian Right’s religious legitimacy and argues that, at its core, it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD