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  • The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed

    A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History

    by William S. Powell, Michael Hill ...
    The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in the Tar Heel State, from historians to journalists, from creative writers to urban planners, from backpackers to armchair travelers.This revised and expanded edition adds approximately 1,200 new entries, bringing to nearly 21,000 the number of North ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • North Carolina Through Four Centuries

    by William S. Powell ...
    This successor to the classic Lefler-Newsome North Carolina: The History of a Southern State, published in 1954, presents a fresh survey history that includes the contemporary scene. Drawing upon recent scholarship, the advice of specialists, and his own knowledge, Powell has created a splendid narrative that makes North Carolina history accessible to both students and general readers. For years ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

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  • American Slavery: History in an Hour

    by Kat Smutz ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the breadth of the subject without sacrificing important historical and cultural details.An important ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The American Revolution

    A Concise History

    by Robert Allison ...
    Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that people have the right to govern themselves. In this lively account, Robert Allison provides a ... Read more

    $11.19 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

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  • The Unknown American Revolution

    The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America

    by Gary B. Nash ...
    In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society.From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book ... Read more

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  • Millard Fillmore

    The American Presidents Series: The 13th President, 1850-1853

    by Paul Finkelman ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The overlooked president whose shortsightedness and stubbornness fractured the nation and sowed the seeds of civil warIn the summer of 1850, America was at a terrible crossroads. Congress was in an uproar over slavery, and it was not clear if a compromise could be found. In the midst of the debate, President Zachary Taylor suddenly took ill and died. The presidency, and the crisis, now fell to the ... Read more

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  • The Wars of Reconstruction

    The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

    by Douglas R. Egerton ...
    A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Founders

    Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation

    Edited by Alfred F. Young, Ray Raphael, Gary Nash ...
    In twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. Here is a fresh new reading of the American Revolution that gives voice and recognition to a generation of radical thinkers and doers whose revolutionary ideals outstripped those of the Founding Fathers.While the Founding Fathers advocated a break from Britain and espoused ideals ... Read more

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  • American Tempest

    How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution

    by Harlow Giles Unger ...
    On Thursday, December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men, many dressed as Indians, dumped roughly £10,000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. Whatever their motives at the time, they unleashed a social, political, and economic firestorm that would culminate in the Declaration of Independence two-and-a-half years later.The Boston Tea Party provoked a reign of terror in Boston and other American ... Read more

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  • Reconstruction

    A Concise History

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential Reconstruction, which was sympathetic to the former ... Read more

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