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Author:Heather Cox Richardson
Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. Northern support for freed blacks and Reconstruction weakened in the wake of growing critiques of the economy...- $36.00
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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the...- $32.00
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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the...- $30.00
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and...- $29.99
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a new birth of freedom, Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral....- $17.95
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and...- $27.95
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The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War
While fighting a war for the Union, the Republican party attempted to construct the world's most powerful and most socially advanced nation. Rejecting the common assumption that wartime domestic legislation was a series of piecemeal reactions to wartime necessities, Heather Cox Richardson argues that...- $69.00
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To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet, despite the egalitarian dream at the heart of...- $35.00
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To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
"The most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses" (Los Angeles Times), now updated to cover the Trump presidency and its aftermathWhen Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was economic opportunity for...- $19.99
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War
From the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt A Wall Street Journal Bestseller The story of Reconstruction is not...- $25.00
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Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
On December 29, 1890, five hundred American troops massed around hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Outnumbered and demoralized, the Sioux posed no threat to the soldiers and put up no resistance. But in a...- $19.99
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Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows in Wounded Knee, the massacre grew...- $9.99
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