Louis R. Harlan - Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915

This book begins in 1901, when Booker T. Washington at the age of forty-five was approaching the zenith of his fame and influence, and ends with his death in 1915. It is a biographical study in the ...

Alan Dawley - Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn With a New Preface

David E. Kyvig - Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995

Over the course of the past two centuries, more than 10,000 amendments have been proposed by the method stipulated in Article V of the Constitution. Amazingly, only 33 have garnered the required ...

Gordon S. Wood - The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

Illuminates the concepts of the Constitution by studying the cultural situation of the colonists.

Morton Horwitz - Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860

Awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History in 1978, Morton J. Horwitz's The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 is considered one of the most significant works ever published in American ...

John L. Brooke - The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844

The 'Refiner's Fire' presents a new and comprehensive understanding of the roots of the Mormon religion, a religion which proposes that the faithful will become gods. The book's central thesis is that ...

David Brion Davis - The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

Brion Davis displayed his mastery not only of a vast source of material, but also of the highly complex, frequently contradictory factors that influenced opinion on slavery. He has now followed this ...

William W. Freehling - Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina 1816-1836

Historian William Freehling won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in History for this analysis of the Nullification Crisis which was a key event in the pre-history of the Civil War. Freehling deflty ...

Alfred Dupont Chandler - The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

The role of large-scale business enterprise-big business and its managers-during the formative years of modern capitalism is delineated for the first time in this pathmarking book.

Mary P. Ryan - Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865

Winner of the 1981 Bancroft Prize. Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological transformation of the American family from 1780-1865. ...