Overview :Before the voyage of Columbus in 1492, the Atlantic Ocean stood as a barrier to contact between the people (and their ideas and institutions... Read More
Overview :In early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential r... Read More
Overview :In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in th... Read More
Overview :A vast collection of documents that illuminate one of the mostsophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the U.S. ... Read More
Overview :Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston's Puritan founders, he at... Read More
Overview :Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. D... Read More
Overview :An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil WarSoon after Abraham Lincoln iss... Read More
Overview :On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, S.C., for his role in planning one of the largest slave uprisings in the United Sta... Read More
Overview :An enthralling chronicle of the American nineteenth century told through the unraveling of the nation's first political dynasty John and Abi... Read More