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Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

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James F. Brooks, Director of the School of American Research Press, is author of Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002), which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the Bancroft...

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Anti-Slavery Literature in the Founding Era

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John Adams: Party of One

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Slavery and the American Revolution

Government and Civics

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Understanding Slavery via Narratives

Literature

James Oliver Horton speaks about slave narratives as an important resource for understanding American history.

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Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend

Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

James I. Robertson, Alumni Distinguished Professor in history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, re-examines, in Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend, the life and the aura of Thomas "Stonewall"...

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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

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James M. McPherson, George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of History at Princeton University and Pulitzer Prize winner, examines the Battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day in our nation’s history. He interweaves accounts by...

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Slavery and the Making of America

Government and Civics

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,...

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Arguing Cases in the Supreme Court

Government and Civics

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Jeffrey L. Fisher is Associate Professor of Law at Stanford University Law School and Co-Director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. He analyzes the current Supreme Court including the personalities and philosophies involved,...

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The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity

Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

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Jill Lepore, Professor of Early American History at Harvard University, draws on scholarship from her book, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, to trace how the meanings attached to this brutally...

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Religion and Witchcraft in Colonial America

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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

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Joseph J. Ellis, Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, discusses his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, explains the emergence of the men who led the Revolutionary War and created...

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His Excellency George Washington

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Joseph J. Ellis, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation and the National Book Award for American Sphinx , examines George Washington’s career as a general and the challenges he faced as the...

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Washington, Grant, Marshall: Three Soldiers and American Ways of War, Part 1: Washington

Government and Civics

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Josiah Bunting III is president of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the author of Ulysses S. Grant (2004). In a series of three lectures, Josiah Bunting III examines the lives of George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and...

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The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope

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Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of the American Studies Program at Columbia University, Andrew Delbanco examines the evolution of the American Dream--the idea that anyone may rise above his or her...

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Creation of the Modern City

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Changes in Supreme Court Doctrine in the 1930s

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Brown v. Board of Education and Its Effect on Civil Rights

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The Age of Homespun: Family Labor in the Colonial Economy

Economics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is James Duncan Professor of History and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. Professor Ulrich won the Pulitzer Prize for her first book, A Midwife’s Tale...

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Lochner v. New York

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Redeeming Martin Van Buren

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In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

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Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University, examines the Salem witchcraft crisis from a seventeenth-century perspective, drawing not only on court records, but also on correspondence and...

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The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part 1

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The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part 2

Geography, Government and Civics, World History

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The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party

Economics, Government and Civics, World History

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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90,986 items

Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

Anti-Slavery Literature in the Founding Era

John Adams: Party of One

Slavery and the American Revolution

Understanding Slavery via Narratives

Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend

Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

Slavery and the Making of America

Arguing Cases in the Supreme Court

The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity

Religion and Witchcraft in Colonial America

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

His Excellency George Washington

Washington, Grant, Marshall: Three Soldiers and American Ways of War, Part 1: Washington

The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope

Creation of the Modern City

Changes in Supreme Court Doctrine in the 1930s

Brown v. Board of Education and Its Effect on Civil Rights

The Age of Homespun: Family Labor in the Colonial Economy

Lochner v. New York

Redeeming Martin Van Buren

In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part 1

The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part 2

The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party

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