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South to Freedom

Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

by Alice L Baumgartner ...

A “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to MexicoThe Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, ... Read more

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A “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to MexicoThe Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico,
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Continent in Crisis

The U.S. Civil War in North America

by Remaking North American Sovereignty Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers, Alice Baumgartner, Beau D. Cleland, Susan-Mary Grant, Amy Greenberg, John Craig Hammond, John W. Quist, Andrew L. Slap0 ...

Series series Reconstructing America
Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe and the ... Read more

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Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe and the
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American Republics

A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

by Alan Taylor ...

**Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young ... Read more

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**Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young
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This Vast Southern Empire

Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

by Matthew Karp ...

Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsWinner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicWinner of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table Book AwardFinalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize, Lapidus Center for the ... Read more

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Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsWinner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicWinner of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table Book AwardFinalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize, Lapidus Center for the
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Our Sister Republics

The United States in an Age of American Revolutions

by Caitlin Fitz ...

Winner of the James H. Broussard First Book PrizePROSE Award in U.S. History (Honorable Mention)A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions.In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it ... Read more

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Winner of the James H. Broussard First Book PrizePROSE Award in U.S. History (Honorable Mention)A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions.In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it
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Lions of the West

Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion

by Robert Morgan ...

From the New York Times –bestselling author who "should be declared a national treasure . . . a classic in the study of American westward expansion" ( The Charlotte Observer ).From Thomas Jefferson's birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America's westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminate one ... ... Read more

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From the New York Times –bestselling author who "should be declared a national treasure . . . a classic in the study of American westward expansion" ( The Charlotte Observer ).From Thomas Jefferson's birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America's westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminate one ...
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American Nations

A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

by Colin Woodard ...

**• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to ... Read more

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**• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to
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El Norte

The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

by Carrie Gibson ...

A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads.Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and ... Read more

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A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads.Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and
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What Hath God Wrought

The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

by Daniel Walker Howe ...

Series series Oxford History of the United States
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of ... Read more

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The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of
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A Country of Vast Designs

James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

by Robert W. Merry ...

Series series Presidential Biography Bestseller
President James K. Polk, often overlooked yet ever-consequential, comes to life in this “compelling, perceptive” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of the 11th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson**’s** protégé, and champion of “manifest destiny.”When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over which country ... Read more

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President James K. Polk, often overlooked yet ever-consequential, comes to life in this “compelling, perceptive” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of the 11th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson**’s** protégé, and champion of “manifest destiny.”When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over which country
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Staking Claims to a Continent

John A. Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of North America

by James Laxer ...

Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and Sir John A. Macdonald took part in a daring game of nation building that has impacted the global order to the present day.Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky ... Read more

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Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and Sir John A. Macdonald took part in a daring game of nation building that has impacted the global order to the present day.Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States

by Paul Ortiz ...

Series Book 4 - ReVisioning History
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of ... Read more

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An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of
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