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Black Citizens and American Democracy

How Black activism has helped achieve and maintain democracy for all AmericansIn 2020, Black Americans continued a centuries-long pursuit of racial equality and justice in the streets and at the polls. Ar…

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Robert Kagan
Rebellion

Could the 2024 election have been the last free election held in a unified America? "A dire warning of the right's drift towards authoritarianism." ---Financial TimesPublished in the run-up to D…

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Fara Dabhoiwala
What Is Free Speech?

Fara Dabhoiwala argues that free speech, though a central democratic value, owes its origin and evolution less to high-minded ideals than to venal interests. Shaped by greed, technological change, and the…

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Ted Widmer
The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text

INSIDE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: A historian and former presidential speechwriter traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America.Illustrations and close readings of 60 origi…

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Matthew Stewart
An Emancipation of the Mind

This is a story about a dangerous idea-one which ignited revolutions in America, France and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals…

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Mark Engler, Paul Engler
This Is an Uprising

In a book that has become a modern classic of social movement organizing, Mark and Paul Engler explain that there is a craft to uprising---and that this craft can change the world.From protests around cli…

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Thomas Zeiler,
Beyond the Nixon Shocks

An examination of US foreign and domestic policies during the 1970s, exploring their immediate impact on the global stage and the consequences for the past half century.

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Benn Steil
The World That Wasn't

From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan , a "timely, riveting" (The Washington Post) new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace---one that will forev…

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David Mccullough
History Matters

In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays---many never published before---Pulitzer Prize--winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can…

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Christian F Ostermann
Between Containment and Rollback

"An international history of US foreign relations in the early years of the Cold War, this book reassesses the aims and influence of the American policies of "containment" and "rollbac…

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Allan J Lichtman
Conservative at the Core

Conservative at the Core unpacks the history, rhetoric, and policies of the American conservative movement and probes the truth about what conservatism actually represents.Allan J. Lichtman investigates t…

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My Fellow Americans

My Fellow Americans compiles the inaugural addresses of all US presidents and offers incisive and accessible interpretations of each by the nation's leading presidential historians.

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Roberto Saba
American Mirror

How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and Brazil In the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former ens…

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Thomas Zeiler,
Beyond the Nixon Shocks

In 1971 President Nixon shocked the world with a series of announcements and policies that changed the political landscape at home, and shifted the bases of international power abroad. From newly opened d…

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Aaron J Leonard
Menace of Our Time

Beginning at the turn of the century, and ending only with communism's collapse, the US government and major elements in the wider society undertook an unrelenting effort to suppress and criminalize domes…

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Max Fraser
Hillbilly Highway

"Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the i…

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Aryeh Neier
Defending My Enemy

With a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by Nadine StrossenA new edition of the most important free speech book of the past half-century, with a new chapter by the author on…

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Aryeh Neier
Defending My Enemy

With a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by Nadine StrossenA new edition of the most important free speech book of the past half-century, with a new chapter by the author on…

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Mary Clare Jalonick
Storm at the Capitol

The definitive, unbiased account of the twenty-four hours surrounding the historic January 6th attack on the CapitolThe January 6th insurrection was a stunning and unprecedented attack on the center of Am…

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Morton J Horwitz
The Warren Court and the Democratic Constitution

"Earl Warren, who had previously been attorney general and governor of California, served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. The Warren Court made a huge number of historically …

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