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A history of US volume 5
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English
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Discusses the period of growth in American history prior to the Civil War, describing the lives of people from a variety of backgrounds, including Jedediah Smith, Emily Dickinson, John James Audubon, and Sojourner Truth.
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North and South trilogy volume 1
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English
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A novel of two families during twenty turbulent, troubled years that culminate in the shattering Civil War.
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English
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Sometimes truth is the greatest illusion of all.
On a cold January morning in 1856, Evelyn Atherton's husband is found murdered after attending an exclusive seance. Having "married up" into New York society, Evie herself is the immediate suspect. Ostracized and vulnerable, she knows that to clear her name she must retrace her husband's last steps. And so, joining forces with her husband's best friend-and the only Manhattan lawyer who will accept...
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On a moonless night in the spring of 1851, a young slave makes a bid for freedom with only the North Star to guide him. Novelist and historian Robert Morgan brings to full and vivid life the story of a runaway slave named Jonah Williams, who, on his eighteenth birthday, flees the South Carolina plantation on which he was born with only a few saved coins, a knife, and the clothes on his back. No shoes, no map, no clear idea of where to head, except...
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[2010]
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English
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"History in Davis's hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent-and memorable." - San Francisco Chronicle Following on his New York Times bestsellers America's Hidden History and Don't Know Much About History, Ken Davis explores the next chapter in the country's hidden history: the gritty first half of the 19th century, among the most tumultuous in the nation's short life.
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2023.
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English
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In 1836 Wisconsin, Catalina's determination to keep her family alive is tested when a bark-covered man abducts her brother, prompting her to delve into a world of strange beasts and tormented spirits as she uncovers the deep-rooted connection between her fate and the Man of Sap.
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1997.
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First edition.
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English
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Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen principal players in the drama, from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and Abraham Lincoln in the final crisis of 1861. This innovative approach shows the crucial role that perception of events played in the sectional hostilities that...
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English
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This captivating historical novel takes listeners inside the Cherokee Nation's tumultuous struggle for justice in the early 1830s and sweeps us away in a surprising and unforgettable love story. Temple Gordon is the daughter of an educated Cherokee leader and a young woman of uncommon beauty. Raised on her family's grand Southern plantation, Temple is fiercely devoted to Cherokee traditions and her lover, The Blade Stuart, a visionary committed to...
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2024.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"When Adebimpe is ten, she is sold with her mother, Sanite, to plantation owner John du Marche. He soon renames her Ady but Sanite never lets her daughter forget who she really is - a person who can read and write and understand numbers. Most importantly,Sanite reminds Ady that she must never reveal these abilities to a white person, especially not her true name. Tasked with maintaining du Marche's home in vibrant New Orleans, Ady takes in the city...
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[2008]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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A New York Times Notable Book
"Far more than just a political story or, for that matter, a story of Andrew Jackson, Reynolds's book shines a bright light on the cultural, social, intellectual, and artistic currents buffeting the nation. . . . Reynolds is a thoughtful historian and Waking Giant is as engaging and insightful a narrative of this critical interregnum as any written in years."-New York Times Book Review
A brilliant, definitive history...
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[2008]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"And then there came a day of fire!" From its shocking curtain-raiser-the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835-to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 throws off sparks like a flywheel. This eagerly awaited sequel to Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American...
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[1944]
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English
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ALICE FELT TYLER- PHASES OF AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY TO 1860. Contents include: Part One. The Faith of the Young Republic, page i Dynamic Democracy 5 COLONIAL BEGINNINGS, 5. IN THE NEW STATES, 8. CONSERVATIVE REACTION, II. THE CONSTITUTION, 12. JEFFERSONIAN REVOLUTION, 14. ROLE OF THE FRONTIER, 15. JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY, 21. Evangelical Religion 23 JONATHAN EDWARDS, 23. RATIONALISM AND RELIGION, 25. RELIGION IN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGES, 29, MISSIONARY SOCIETIES,...
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