The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

10 best books like The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (Sean Wilentz): The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, Battle Cry of Freedom, Master of the Senate, Wilson, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
AuthorJill Lepore
ISBN0375702628
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...
AuthorDaniel K. Richter
ISBN0674011171
In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers.

Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled...
AuthorFred Anderson
ISBN0375706364
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain’s...
Battle Cry of Freedom
AuthorJames M. McPherson
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.

James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and...
Master of the Senate
AuthorRobert A. Caro
ISBN0394720954
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered...
Wilson
AuthorA. Scott Berg
ISBN0399159215
From Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times–bestselling author A. Scott Berg comes the definitive—and revelatory—biography of one of the great American figures of modern times.

One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential...
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
AuthorGeorge C. Herring
ISBN0195078225
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume...
AuthorGordon S. Wood
ISBN0679736883
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed...
AuthorDavid M. Potter
ISBN0061319295
“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...
AuthorEugene D. Genovese
ISBN0394716523
A fascinating, but vitally flawed, book, Roll, Jordan, Roll, is part Marxist-leaning polemic and part well-woven narratives of the slave experience in colonial and antebellum America. At just over 800 pages, Genovese's opus has become a classic in the field for its amazing scope and wide-ranging...
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
AuthorGordon S. Wood
ISBN0143035282
From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career...
AuthorRichard White
ISBN0521424607
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans...
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