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American History

1. The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History

   Walter LaFeber

   Winner of the Bancroft Prize.More

2. "One Hell of a Gamble": Krushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964

   Aleksandr Fursenko, Timothy Naftali

   Based on classified Soviet archives, including the files of Nikita Khrushchev and the KGB, "One Hell of a Gamble" offers a riveting play-by-play history of the Cuban missile crisis from American and Soviet perspectives simultaneously.More

3. Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South

   James Oakes

   "The most valuable and stimulating general interpretation of the Old South to appear in recent years."—George M. FredricksonMore

4. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England

   Carol F. Karlsen

   "A pioneer work in . . . the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft."--Edmund S. Morgan, Yale UniversityMore

5. His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad

   John P. Parker, Stuart Seely Sprague

   "Surpasses all previous slave narratives. . . . Usually we need to invent our American heroes. With the publication of Parker's extraordinary memoir, we seem to have discovered the genuine article." —Joseph J. Ellis, CivilizationMore

6. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders

   James Oakes

   "A sweeping and spirited history of Southern slaveholders."—David Herbert DonaldMore

7. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1945)

   Benita Eisler

   The industrial revolution in nineteenth-century New England, in the words of the workers.More

8. The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type

   Christopher Lasch

   "Extraordinarily creative . . . an important and engrossing contribution to a complex and elusive subject."—NewsweekMore

9. Andrew Johnson: A Biography

   Hans L. Trefousse

   A definitive life of the flawed man who succeeded to the American presidency after Lincoln's assassination.More

10. Woman in the Nineteenth Century

    Margaret Fuller, Larry J. Reynolds

    The text is that of the first edition and includes comprehensive textual annotations.More

11. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

    Nell Irvin Painter

    A monumental biography of one of the most important black women of the nineteenth century.More

12. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

    Dorothy Sterling, Mary Helen Washington

    "A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free."--Dorothy B. Porter, curator emeritus, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
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13. Robert E. Lee: A Biography

    Emory M. Thomas

    "The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of BooksMore

14. The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family

    Jean Harvey Baker

    "[A] sweeping narrative, beautifully written and scrupulously evenhanded, [that] does full justice to Stevenson and his people. . . . Ambitious, elegiac, and provocative."--Richard Norton Smith, Chicago Tribune, front page reviewMore

15. Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy

    Stephen Macedo

    Our political and personal lives continue to be lived in the broad wake of the 1960s.More