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American History

1. 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

2. 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

3. Philadelphia: A 300-Year History

   Russell F. Weigley

   In this, the definitive comprehensive history of Philadelphia, the reader will discover a rich and colorful portrait of one of America's most vital, interesting, and illustrious cities.More

4. The Genius of George Washington

   Edmund S. Morgan

   More than any other single man, George Washington was responsible for bringing success to the American Revolution. But because of the heroic image in which we have cast him and which already enveloped him in this own lifetime, Washington is and was a hard man to know.
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5. 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

6. 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

7. Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction

   James L. Roark

   Winner of the Allan Nevins Award of the Society of American Historians.More

8. The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century

   Gavin Wright

   The impact of cotton and slavery in the nineteenth century American South was so dramatic and enduring that neither the region nor the nation has yet escaped from the influence of that era of regional prominence.More

9. 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

10. The New Exiles: American War Resisters in Canada

    Roger N. Williams, William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

    More Americans have fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War than have died in Vietnam. This is the story of that burgeoning exile community now estimated at from 40,000 to 100,000 strong.More

11. The Mountain States of America

    Neal R. Peirce

    Provides a concise examination of the social, political, and economic environment of the Rocky Mountain states.More

12. 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

13. The Jacksonian Economy

    Peter Temin

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

14. 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

15. 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