Overview :An illuminating analysis of the man whose name is synonymous with American democracyFew presidents have embodied the American spirit as full... Read More
Overview :This comprehensive reader chronicles the western engagement with the nature of knowledge during the past four centuries while providing the ... Read More
Overview :An illuminating analysis of the man whose name is synonymous with American democracyFew presidents have embodied the American spirit as full... Read More
Overview :This illustrated encyclopedia examines the unique influence and contributions of women in every era of American history, from the colonial p... Read More
Overview :Approaching capitalism as a culture, as a historical development that was by no means natural or inevitable, Joyce Appleby gives us a fascin... Read More
Overview :Like dye cast into water, liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not th... Read More
Overview :Situated within a broader historical context by the editor's commentary, these narratives by pioneer housewives, former slaves, and entrepre... Read More
Overview :This text examines the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors arg... Read More
Overview :At a time when public commemorations and remembrances often develop into battlefields of contested meanings, historians play an even greater... Read More
Overview :Born after the Revolution, the first generation of Americans inherited a truly new world--and, with it, the task of working out the terms of... Read More