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Louis R. Harlan - Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915

This book begins in 1901, when Booker T. Washington at the age of forty-five was approaching the zenith of his fame and influence, and ends with his death in 1915. It is a biographical study in the sense that its focus is on the complex, enigmatic figure of Washington, the most powerful black minori ... More

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Mary P. Ryan - Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865

Winner of the 1981 Bancroft Prize. Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological transformation of the American family from 1780-1865. Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female ro ... More

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Eric Foner - Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

<p align="left">This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (<i>New Republic</i>) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black a ... More

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James Sterling Young - The Washington Community, 1800-1828

Release Date: February 01, 1986

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Michael S. Sherry - The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon

This prizewinning book is the first in-depth history of American strategic bombing. Michael explores the growing appeal of air power in America before World War ii, the ideas, techniques, personalities, ad organizations that guided air attacks during the ear and the devastating effects of American a ... More

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Charles Capper - Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life The Public Years

Transcendentalist, Romantic, feminist- Margaret Fuller was nothing less than the first woman in America to establish herself as a dominant figure in highbrow culture at large. If there was one man or woman whose connections among gender, intellectual culture, and the avant-garde, it was Margaret Ful ... More

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Morton Horwitz - Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860

Awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History in 1978, Morton J. Horwitz's The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 is considered one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. Since its publication in 1977, it has become the standard source on early nineteenth-cen ... More

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David Brion Davis - The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823

Brion Davis displayed his mastery not only of a vast source of material, but also of the highly complex, frequently contradictory factors that influenced opinion on slavery. He has now followed this up with a study of equal quality....No one has written a book about the abolition of slavery that car ... More

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