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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
John Dewey and American Democracy John Dewey and American Democracy Robert B. Westbrook Intellectual biography of American philosophy John Dewey. Robert B. Westbrook is a professor of History at the University of Rochester. Epigraph: "To know where we stand toward Dewey's ideas is… OL12471323W
Indian affairs and the administrative state in the nineteenth century Indian affairs and the administrative state in the nineteenth century Stephen J. Rockwell "The framers of the Constitution and the generations that followed built a powerful and intrusive national administrative state in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The romantic myth of a… OL16964655W
Did Lincoln and the Republican Party create the Civil War? Did Lincoln and the Republican Party create the Civil War? Robert P. Broadwater "The author presents the argument that the Civil War was fought not to preserve the Union or free the slaves, but rather to establish the political power of the Republican Party within the federal go… OL1824958W
Women and the unstable state in nineteenth-century America Women and the unstable state in nineteenth-century America Alison M. Parker,Stephanie Cole x, 164 p. ; 25 cm OL18707773W
Lincoln in the world Lincoln in the world Kevin Peraino A study of the sixteenth president's evolution as a foreign policy leader explores his role in America's rise to a world power, analyzing six distinct episodes that defined his foreign policy stance … OL19972474W
The boundaries of American political culture in the Civil War era The boundaries of American political culture in the Civil War era Mark E. Neely Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing that social historians have gone too far in concluding that Americans we… OL20414733W
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Adam I. P. Smith Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin on the frontier, rose from labourer to lawyer, and finally to President of the United States. In doing so, he confronted the great questions of his age: slaver… OL22322876W
De la démocratie en Amérique De la démocratie en Amérique Gustave de Beaumont,Alexis de Tocqueville A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist. In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil… OL278001W
The eloquent president The eloquent president Ronald C. White Historian Ronald White examines Lincoln's astonishing oratory and explores his growth as a leader, a communicator, and a man of deepening spiritual conviction. Examining a different speech, address, … OL4803813W
Crisis and leviathan Crisis and leviathan Robert Higgs "In Crisis and Leviathan, economist and historian Robert Higgs shows how Big Government emerged from responses to national emergencies that occurred as attitudes about the role of government were cha… OL5275336W
Problems and Progress in American Politics Problems and Progress in American Politics Jason Porterfield Traces the history of the Democratic Party from its founding by Thomas Jefferson in 1792, to the end of the nineteenth century, focusing on how issues of the day affected the choices of Democratic pr… OL5723880W