Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
America in the time of Lewis and Clark	Sally Senzell Isaacs	Uses the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a reference to examine the history and everyday life of the United States from 1801 to 1850, including the War of 1812, the growth of industrialization, the exp…	OL121654W
Inheriting the revolution	Joyce Oldham Appleby, PhD	THE FIRST GENERATION of Americans—inherited a truly new world—and, with it, the task of working out the terms of Independence. Anyone who started a business, marketed a new invention, ran for office,…	OL13786439W
A Slaveholders' Union	George William Van Cleve	From the University of Chicago Press: "After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of th…	OL15584374W
Signing their rights away	Denise Kiernan	Presents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the thirty-nine signers of the United States Constitution, including Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and James McHenry.	OL16498694W
Freedom bound	Christopher L. Tomlins	"Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America. It is a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War"--Provided b…	OL16920586W
The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783-1812	Spencer C. Tucker, editor	Relatively little attention has been paid to American military history between 1783 and 1812 -- arguably the most formative years of the United States. This encyclopedia fills the void in existing li…	OL17098643W
A sovereign people	Carol Berkin	"Americans like to believe that the Constitution miraculously brought the United States into being, as though the framers established, in one stroke, the nation we know today. Yet when George Washing…	OL17753011W
Trade in strangers	Marianne Sophia Wokeck	The story of German and Irish migration to America in the eighteenth century.	OL1946015W
A History of US	Joy Hakim	Beginning with George Washington's inauguration and continuing into the nineteenth century, The New Nation tells of Thomas Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory (bought from France for four…	OL1965045W
A History of US-All the People 1945-1996 #10	Joy Hakim	Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. In the years after WWII, America became the worlds greatest power. All the …	OL1965051W
Founding mothers	Cokie Roberts	Brief portraits of women from the period of the Revolution and early United States. This book contains brief portraits of women from the period of the Revolution and early United States.	OL19705445W
Constitutional myths	Ray Raphael	"Americans of late have taken to waving the Constitution in the air and proclaiming, 'The founders were on MY side! See, it's all right here!' But these phantom constitutions bear little relation to …	OL19964916W
Nation Is Born:Rebellion And I (First Person America)	Richard Steins,Benjamin Stein	Provides primary source materials covering life in the thirteen colonies, problems with England, the Revolution, and the creation of the new government of the United States.	OL3241875W
The Age of Capital	Eric Hobsbawm	The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1975. It is the second in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), preceded by *The Age …	OL495656W
Founding Brothers	Joseph J. Ellis	In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award--winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals--Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin,…	OL53120W
Everyday life in the New Nation, 1787-1860	Louis B. Wright	Discusses the changes in politics, transportation, recreation, city and country life, social customs, education, and religion between the Constitutional Convention and the Civil War.	OL5844367W