Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

8 best books like Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Jack N. Rakove): The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

Author	David McCullough
ISBN	1416571760

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.

After...

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

Author	Jill Lepore
ISBN	0375702628

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres...

The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861

Author	David M. Potter
ISBN	0061319295

“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History

“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek

Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David...

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

Author

Steven Hahn

This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation,...

Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

Author	Pauline Maier
ISBN	0684868547

When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect. There was reason to doubt whether...

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

Author	Sean Wilentz
ISBN	0393058204

In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers of history, Wilentz brings to life the era after the American Revolution, when the idea of democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians...

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

Author	Pauline Maier
ISBN	0679779086

Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans...

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

Author	John Putnam Demos
ISBN	0679759611

As a historical novel, it is a fantastic book and a wonderful read. Unfortunately, it wasn’t billed as such, and as an historical text, there are some significant issues here. Most critically, Demos in places confuses the Mohawks involvement with what were actually Abenaki, and he also seems to have...