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The Age of Lincoln
by Orville Burton  Publisher Comments Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age’s most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most...
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Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877: A Revisionist View of One of the Most Controversial Periods
by Kenneth M Stampp Publisher Comments This brief political history of reconstruction is an attempt to give more general currency to the findings of scholars during the past few decades. Based on accumulated material on reconstruction for lectures for college students....
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A Short History of Reconstruction
by Eric Foner Publisher Comments The World the War Made The Coming of Emancipation On January 1, 1863, after a winter storm swept up the east coast of the United States, the sun rose in a cloudless sky over Washington, D.C. At the White House, Abraham Lincoln spent most of the day...
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Search for Order, 1877-1920 (67 Edition)
by Robert H. Wiebe Publisher Comments Robert Wiebe sees the Progressive era of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as a search for organizing principles around which a viable social order could be constructed in a new, largely impersonal world. This book combines the virtues of historical...
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
by Charles Lane Publisher Comments The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town’s ex-slaves and a white lawyer’s historic battle to bring the perpretators to justice Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where African Americans ...
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Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884
by Mark Wahlgr Summers Publisher Comments The presidential election of 1884, in which Grover Cleveland ended the Democrats' twenty-four-year presidential drought by defeating Republican challenger James G. Blaine, was one of the gaudiest in American history, remembered today less for its...
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New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905
by Rebecca Edwards Publisher Comments The Gilded Age is one of the most crucial periods in American history. During this era, Americans found themselves no longer living in a rural republic, but rather in an industrial world power. It was a time when the nation had to redefine itself and...
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America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1914 (Seminar Studies in History)
by Lewis L Gould Publisher Comments B>" This book in the Seminar Studies in History series is a useful introduction to a key period in American history from the 1890s to the First World War. Books in this Seminar Studies in History series bridge the gap between textbook and specialist...
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Grant : Biography (81 Edition)
by William S. Mcfeely 
Publisher Comments The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire...
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Little Big Horn, 1876: The Official Communications, Documents & Reports
by Loyd J. Overfield Publisher Comments Noting that the documents pertaining to the Battle of the Little Big Horn are often garbled in editing and quoted out of context, Overfield set out to compile the original orders, letters, and telegrams that put a great fighting machine into motion and...
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Four Hats in the Ring (American Presidential Elections)
by Lewis Gould Publisher Comments Imagine a presidential election with four well-qualified and distinguished candidates and a serious debate over the future of the nation Sound impossible in this era of attack ads and strident partisanship? It happened nearly a century ago in 1912, when...
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Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
by Richard Fran Bensel Publisher Comments This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. The author contends that intense competition for control of the national political economy between the free North and...
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Barrons Ez 101 American History 1877 2ND Edition
by Mar Capozzoli Ingui Publisher Comments Second edition....
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1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : Election That Changed the Country (04 Edition)
by James Chace Publisher Comments Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates. When Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William...
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Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America
by Garrett Epps Publisher Comments “Engaging . . . With a novelist’s eye for biographical detail, Epps has written an . . . enthralling book.”—David W. Blight, Chicago Tribune The last battle of the Civil War wasn’t fought at Appomattox by dashing...
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
by Nicholas Lemann Publisher Comments Brilliant . . . "Redemption" is accessible and important, and we cannot really understand race or political power in modern America without understanding what happened in the South a decade after Appomattox. -Jon Meacham, "Washington Monthly."...
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The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I
by Thomas Fleming Publisher Comments A bestselling historian gives a scathing new look at President Woodrow Wilson's handling - and mishandling - of 'the war to end all wars'....
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Wobblies : the Story of the IWW and Syndicalism in the United States, Updated ((Rev)99 Edition)
by Patrick Renshaw Publisher Comments The story of how the Wobblies, the Industrial Workers of the World, planned to combine the American working class into one big labor union....
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Morgan: American Financier
by Jean Strouse Publisher Comments History has remembered J. Pierpont Morgan as a complex and contradictory figure, part robber baron and part patron saint. Now, this definitive biography, based extensively on new material, is the first magisterial, full-scale portrait of Morgan's...
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Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920
by David Traxel Publisher Comments In this absorbing history of progressive-era America, acclaimed historian David Traxel paints a vivid picture of a tumultuous time of change that was the foundation for the twentieth century.. With WWI on the horizon, the struggles to end child labor...
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