The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, Paperback - Eric Foner

Reducere. An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstructio...

DescriptionThe Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three ...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the most misunderstood periods in American history, Reconstruction remains relevant today because its central issue -- the role o...

Reducere. Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service i...

Reducere. From one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War. ...

Reducere. The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,...

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...

Reducere. Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. ...

Reducere. Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation ...

Reducere. DescriptionSince its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribu...

The Civil War was undeniably an integral event in American history, but for African Americans, whose personal liberties were dependent upon its out...

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the con...

Reducere. This book is written from the distinct religious perspective of the author. The non-denominational version of this work is called THE COVENANT, LIN...

Reducere. A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruc...

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twen...

With Freedom's Lawmakers, Eric Foner has assembled the first comprehensive directory of the over 1, 500 African Americans who held political office...

Reducere. In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to...

Reducere. A deep dive into the period after the Civil War, when the country struggled to both heal and find a way forward. An essential read for students age...

Reducere. "An original book...about individuals who used ideas to change the world" (The New Yorker)--the fascinating exploration into the creation and histo...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Practical Guide to the United States Constitution offers an accurate but entertaining look at the founding documents. It covers the ...

Civil War in Central Europe argues that Polish independence after the First World War was forged in the fires of the post-war conflicts which shoul...

Reducere. A deep dive into the period after the Civil War, when the country struggled to both heal and find a way forward. An essential read for students age...

The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and politics behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passe...

"Reconstruction after the Civil War "explores the role of former slaves during this period in American history. Looking past popular myths and cont...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

The emergence of slavery in the District of Columbia profoundly transformed constitutional interpretation. Gilhooley's account of this interaction,...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The unitary executive theory argues that the president has virtually complete and total executive power that is unchecked by Congress or the courts...

Reducere. In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: th...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; an...

Reducere. In this book we explore pre-Flood history along with ancient Hebrew history and biblical history that proves our Creator truly has granted us inali...

Reducere. The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history "A revelatory and fluidly written chronicle. . . . An esse...

Reducere. DescriptionThe two great commentaries of Julius Caesar - the Gallic War and the Civil War - are united in this superb hardcover edition. The commen...

Reducere. From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Ame...

Reducere. Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah...

Reducere. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence,...

Reducere. The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union, Paperback

Reducere. A compact, incisive history of one of the defining conflicts of our time Leaving almost half a million dead and displacing an estimated twelve mill...

DescriptionThe civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social hi...

Reducere. This is the Clear Print edition of the US Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, all 27 Amendments, the Declaration of Independence, and the A...

Al Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a groundbreaking account of postwar culture. He examines an eclectic group of artistic, literar...