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America

Woodrow Wilson Princeton to the Presidency

Maynard W. Barksdale

ISBN: PB: 9780300204889, Yale University Press, July 2013
406 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton-where he enjoyed four productive yea...

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Slaves Waiting for Sale Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

McInnis Maurie D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055060, ISBN: HB: 9780226559339, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 125 halftones, 12 colour illus.

In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culmi...

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Gender Studies

America

West of Sex Making Mexican America, 1900-1930

Mitchell Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780226532691, ISBN: HB: 9780226532684, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In "West of Sex", Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and crim...

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America

Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 Fourth Edition

Morgan Edmund S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226923420, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
240 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In "The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89", Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that th...

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Biography & Memoires

America

And Bid Him Sing A Biography of Countee Cullen

Molesworth Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780226533643, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

While competing with Langston Hughes for the title of "Poet Laureate of Harlem", Countee Cullen (1903-1946) crafted poems that became touchstones for American readers, both black and white. Inspired by classic themes and working within traditional fo...

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America

Endowed by Our Creator The Birth of Religious Freedom in America

Meyerson Michael I.

ISBN: HB: 9780300166323, Yale University Press, June 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The debate over the framers' concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Was...

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Photography

America

Picturing Faith Photography and the Great Depression

McDannell Colleen

ISBN: PB: 9780300184464, Yale University Press, November 2011
330 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.

In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks-all then virtually unknown-were com...

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America

Peter's War A New England Slave Boy and the American Revoultion

Malcolm Joyce Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300168068, ISBN: HB: 9780300119305, Yale University Press, January 2011
272 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 4 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the rev...

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America

Reading, Riting, and Reconstruction The Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870

Morris Robert C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226539294, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

This study of education for freedmen following Emancipation is the definitive treatment of the subject. Employing a wide range of sources, Robert C. Morris examines the organizations that staffed and managed black schools in the South, with particula...

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