Annette Gordon-Reed
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English
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""It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States." --Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts...
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English
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed teams up with the country's leading Jefferson scholar, Peter S. Onuf, to present an absorbing and revealing character study that finally clarifies the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Tracing Jefferson's development and maturation from his youth to his old age, the authors explore what they call the "empire" of Jefferson's imagination--his expansive state of mind born of the intellectual influences...
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Times Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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A portrait of America's seventeenth president describes Andrew Johnson's failed efforts to bring about reconciliation following the Civil War, the antagonism of congressional leaders who sought his impeachment, and his legacy for the present.
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English
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From the civil rights revolution to the halls of power, this is the life story of a larger-than-life American leader. As a student in Atlanta, Vernon Jordan had a summer job driving a white banker around town. During the man's afternoon naps, Jordan passed the time reading books, a fact that astounded his boss. "Vernon can read!" the man exclaimed to his relatives. Nearly fifty years later, Vernon Jordan, long-time civil rights leader, adviser,
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Chronicles the tumultuous racial history of the city of Charleston, South Carolina, while revealing the escalating risk of climate change and rising ocean waters, working as a bellweather for other coastal cities in the race to solve environmental and social problems."--
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Library of America ; 366
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The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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This groundbreaking anthology of Black writing during the Revolutionary Era features over 200 poems, letters, sermons, newspaper advertisements, slave narratives, travel accounts from over 100 different authors and reveals the richness and diversity of the Black experience in those years.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Thomas Jefferson believed in the covenant between a government and its citizens, in both the government's responsibilities to its people and also the people's responsibility to the republic. In this illuminating collection, a project of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham has gathered Jefferson's most powerful and provocative reflections on the subject, drawn from public speeches and documents as well...
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RizzoliElecta
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Visually stunning volume that explores the house and plantation at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, featuring the photography of Miguel Flores-Vianna, along with essays by arts and cultural luminaries who reflect on Jefferson and his work at Monticello as a testament to his genius in art, culture, and science, while considering the important role and painful reality of his enslaved workforce which made his lifestyle and achievements possible."--
