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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Catherine Clinton, professor of US history at Queen’s University Belfast, has wrtten or edited more than twenty historical books for both children and adults, including The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South and I,...
African American Lives: An Overview
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute of African American History at Harvard University, speaks about the development of the African American National Biography,...
Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War
David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, and Steven Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Houston, chose 360 original documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The authors have woven these...
Slavery and the Making of America
James Oliver Horton, the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University, and Lois E. Horton, Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, have collaborated on several books,...
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party
Michael F. Holt is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of History and chair of the history department at the University of Virginia. In The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, Professor Holt presents the first full-scale...
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