Overview :In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation may have b... Read More
Overview :During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsucce... Read More
Overview :Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible batt... Read More
Overview :Richards' study presents not only a vivid portrait of John Quincy Adams but also provides an insightful exploration of American politics in ... Read More
Overview :From the signing of the Constitution to the eve of the Civil War there persisted the belief that slaveholding southerners held the reins of ... Read More
Overview :In this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards outlines the links between the Gold Rush and the Civil War. Richards e... Read More