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The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist
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The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
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3.82 avg rating — 1,618 ratings
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Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865
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Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
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3.86 avg rating — 2,110 ratings
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After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture
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3.72 avg rating — 236 ratings
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
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4.05 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
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Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
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3.94 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Domestic Manners of the Americans
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Democracy in America
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The Year of Decision 1846
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Across The Wide Missouri
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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
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4.13 avg rating — 8,548 ratings
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The 1842 Diary of Julia Turnau
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2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed a Nation
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3.92 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
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3.69 avg rating — 410 ratings
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The Carnival Campaign: How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" Changed Presidential Elections Forever
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3.92 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Grant
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4.50 avg rating — 43,598 ratings
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The Deadlocked Election of 1800: Jefferson, Burr, and the Union in the Balance
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3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
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3.85 avg rating — 1,040 ratings
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The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926
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City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
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3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 8,338 ratings
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The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
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3.82 avg rating — 762 ratings
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The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
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3.75 avg rating — 417 ratings
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Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott
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3.90 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Old Hickory's War
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3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
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4.40 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 67,540 ratings
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
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4.07 avg rating — 2,725 ratings
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
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4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
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3.78 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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4.05 avg rating — 32,638 ratings
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
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3.88 avg rating — 432 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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4.45 avg rating — 5,584 ratings
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
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4.01 avg rating — 6,513 ratings
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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4.33 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
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4.41 avg rating — 5,680 ratings
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The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
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4.18 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam: The Battle that Changed the Course of the Civil War
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4.02 avg rating — 2,922 ratings
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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War – A Remarkable Military History of Unique Collaboration and Ultimate Victory
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4.10 avg rating — 2,743 ratings
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
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4.09 avg rating — 2,605 ratings
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Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
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3.99 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
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3.99 avg rating — 4,373 ratings
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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4.15 avg rating — 37,224 ratings
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All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
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4.11 avg rating — 772 ratings
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Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel (Galaxy Book)
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4.11 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
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3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
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3.96 avg rating — 12,571 ratings
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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods & Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
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3.40 avg rating — 1,706 ratings
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Bylines: A Photobiography of Nellie Bly
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3.93 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Jane Addams: Spirit in Action
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3.93 avg rating — 306 ratings
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The Roosevelt Women: A Portrait In Five Generations
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3.87 avg rating — 287 ratings
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A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age
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3.72 avg rating — 295 ratings
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The Last Castle
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3.73 avg rating — 13,151 ratings
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The Lady of Sing Sing: An American Countess, an Italian Immigrant, and Their Epic Battle for Justice in New York's Gilded Age
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3.88 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Dearest Chums and Partners: Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children. A Domestic Biography
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris
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4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
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4.20 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Up from Slavery
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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3.91 avg rating — 8,983 ratings
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Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
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3.84 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Robber Barons: The Lives and Careers of John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt
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The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth
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Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
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Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
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Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
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3.70 avg rating — 2,492 ratings
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The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism
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Lost Cause: John Wesley Hardin, the Taylor Sutton Feud, and Reconstruction Texas
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Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield
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4.14 avg rating — 2,957 ratings
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Chester Alan Arthur (The American Presidents, #21)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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The Fatal Bullet: The Assassination of James A. Garfield
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3.91 avg rating — 379 ratings
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The Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Growing up in Boston's Gilded Age: The Journal of Alice Stone Blackwell, 1872-1874
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
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3.82 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Mark Twain
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Doomed by Cartoon: How Cartoonist Thomas Nast and the New York Times Brought Down Boss Tweed and His Ring of Thieves
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Black Gotham: A Family History of African-Americans in Nineteenth Century New York City
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4.07 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
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4.03 avg rating — 260 ratings
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The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
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3.81 avg rating — 1,398 ratings
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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
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3.79 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
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3.59 avg rating — 438 ratings
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American Transcendentalism: A History
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3.84 avg rating — 262 ratings
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American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism
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4.23 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Calhoun: American Heretic
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4.22 avg rating — 433 ratings
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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
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4.22 avg rating — 877 ratings
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The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
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The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
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On Juneteenth
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Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
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Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul
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Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans
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Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
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Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
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Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
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