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American History

1. The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860

   Suzanne Lebsock

   In this book, which has important implications for our vision of the female past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position of women in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of the nineteenth century?More

2. The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism After 1830

   Ronald G. Walters

   "A fresh and provocative contribution . . . . the clearest, most penetrating, and best-informed study of the post-1830 antislavery movement that exists." —Richard Bardolph, North Carolina Historical ReviewMore

3. The Political Crisis of the 1850s

   Michael F. Holt

   Professor Holt's book provides a lucid and provocative interpretation of the coming of the Civil War.More

4. The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860

   John McCardell

   As the nineteenth century began, the United States was a country in search of definition, of national character. Like other Americans, Southerners found the process of national self-definition urgent and exhilarating.More

5. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement: 1890-1920

   Aileen S. Kraditor

   "An important contribution to the history of women and the intellectual history of the United States." —Carl N. Degler, Stanford UniversityMore

6. Deliver Us from Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition

   Norman H. Clark

   This book traces the efforts of American society to legislate protective barriers against on of its most public devastations—drunkenness.More

7. Diplomacy for Victory: FDR and Unconditional Surrender

   Raymond G. O'Connor

   In January of 1943, at Casablanca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued a statement to the press which became a guiding policy of Allied Diplomacy in the Second World War.More

8. The Jacksonian Economy

   Peter Temin

   During the age of Jackson the nation experienced one of the worst depressions in its history.More

9. The Great Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1920s

   Robert Sobel

   Wall Street and the stock market were major symbols of the 1920s, and the great crash was considered the end of that era. It is surprising, therefore, that little intensive study has been given to the bull market of the period.More

10. Andrew Jackson and the Bank War

    Robert V. Remini

    One of the most controversial issues during the presidency of Andrew Jackson centered around the future of the Second Bank of the United States.More