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  • Kentucky in the Reconstruction Era

    by Ross A. Webb ...
    Series series Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
    Although Kentucky was not subject to reconstruction as such, the period of readjustment following the Civil War was a troubled one for the Commonwealth. Violence begun by guerillas continued for years. In addition, white "Regulators" tried to cow the new freedmen and keep them in a perpetual state of fearful submission that would assure the agricultural labor supply.Their attacks produced exactly ... Read more

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  • Reconstruction Updated Edition

    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Henry Clay

    The Essential American

    by David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler ...
    He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary of state, five-time presidential candidate, and idol to the young Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is captured in full at last in this rich and sweeping biography.David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler present ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

    An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Reconstruction after the Civil War

    by John Hope Franklin ...
    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    The classic work of American history by the renowned author of From Slavery to Freedom, with a new introduction by historian Eric Foner.First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin's revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule. Looking past dubious ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Andrew Johnson

    The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869

    by Annette Gordon-Reed ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office.Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office.Johnson faced a nearly impossible task—to succeed ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • A Brilliant Solution

    Inventing the American Constitution

    by Carol Berkin ...
    A rich narrative portrait of post-revolutionary America and the men who shaped its political future."Just as the Constitution was a brilliant solution to the problems of the 1780s, Carol Berkin's book is a brilliant account of the making of that constitution. Written with great verve and clarity, it nicely captures all the contingency and unpredictability in the framing of the Constitution." ... Read more

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  • Franklin Pierce

    The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857

    by Michael F. Holt ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery.Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in a landslide against the imploding Whig Party, he proved a dismal failure in office.Michael F. Holt, a leading ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Georgia

    A Brief History

    by Christopher C. Meyers, David Williams ...
    Here, for the first time is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from the early Native Americans to the twenty-first century. Based on the most recent research, GEORGIA: A BRIEF HISTORY surveys the people and events that shaped our state's history in a style that reads easily and flows effortlessly. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Liberty and Union

    by David Herbert Donald ...
    The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner's penetrating analysis of the crisis of democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.In Liberty and Union, David Herbert Donald persuasively examines one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. With the same wit, eloquence, and willingness to question received wisdom that define his acclaimed biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner ... Read more

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  • Black Reconstruction

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, ... Read more

    $1.76 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Founding Fathers

    Eavesdrop on the Great Mind and Debates That Shaped Our Democracy

    by Ray Raphael ...
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the leaders who shaped our nationPopular interest in the Founding Fathers has surged over the past decade and is beginning to rival interest in the Civil War. People are increasingly looking back to the generation that invented this country's political ideas and institutions for help in today's complex political world. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD