Search results for ‘Annette Gordon-Reed’

Filter & Refine

    Cover image for Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History

    This collection of 12 original essays brings together two themes of American culture - law and race. Cases discussed include Amistad, Dred Scott, Regents v. Bakke and O.J. Simpson.

    $360.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History

    This collection of 12 original essays brings together two themes of American culture - law and race. Cases discussed include Amistad, Dred Scott, Regents v. Bakke and O.J. Simpson.

    $75.99

    Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: An American Controversy
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: An American Controversy

    Annette Gordon-Reed

    Rumours of Jefferson’s sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings have circulated for two centuries. In this text, the author sets out to intensify the debate, arguing not that the…

    $50.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Andrew Johnson: 1865-1869
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Andrew Johnson: 1865-1869

    Annette Gordon-Reed

    One of America’s leading historians shows how ill-suited Johnson was for assuming the presidency following President Lincoln’s assassination. The climax of Johnson’s career was his impeachment trial, which Gordon-Reed recounts…

    $70.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    Annette Gordon-Reed

    Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: [A] commanding and important book. -Jill Lepore, The New Yorker

    $35.99

    Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for On Juneteenth
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    On Juneteenth

    Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

    The mesmerising story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history-told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.

    $26.99

    Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for In the Hands of the People
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    In the Hands of the People

    Jon Meacham,Annette Gordon-Reed

    An inspiring manual on how to be a good citizen today, from Thomas Jefferson and others. Edited and with an introduction and essays by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and…

    $54.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm

    Susan Crawford

    An unflinching look at the beautiful, endangered, tourist-pummeled, and history-filled port city which now finds itself at the intersection of the twin crises of climate and race. Unknown to the…

    $66.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Charleston
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Charleston

    Susan Crawford

    An unflinching look at Charleston, a beautiful, endangered port city, founded by English settlers in 1669 as a hub of the sugar and slave trades, which now, as the waters…

    $38.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Black Man in the Huddle: Stories from the Integration of Texas Football
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Black Man in the Huddle: Stories from the Integration of Texas Football

    Robert D. Jacobus

    Interlaced with historical context and abundantly illustrated, the first-person accounts presented in Black Man in the Huddle form an important and lasting record of the thoughts, struggles, successes, and experiences…

    $68.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

    Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

    The true story of Paul Jennings, a slave in the household of America’s fourth president James Madison, and an extraordinary man in his own right - he taught himself to…

    $47.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History

    Fawn M. Brodie

    A seminal biography of Thomas Jefferson and a fascinating exploration of his relationship with Sally Hemings.

    $49.99

    Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir

    Annette Gordon-Reed,Vernon Jordan, Jr.

    From the civil rights revolution to the halls of power, the life story of a truly larger than life figure: Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.

    $78.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

    Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University),Peter S. Onuf (University of Virginia)

    A ground-breaking historical work that explicates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery and race.

    $29.99

    Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

    Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University),Peter S. Onuf (University of Virginia)

    A ground-breaking historical work that explicates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery and race.

    $77.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Those Who Labor for My Happiness: Slavery at Thomas Hefferson's Monticello
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Those Who Labor for My Happiness: Slavery at Thomas Hefferson’s Monticello

    Lucia Stanton

    Published in association with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

    $48.99

    Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Black Writers of the Founding Era (LOA #366)
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Black Writers of the Founding Era (LOA #366)

    James G Basker, Annette Gordon-Reed, Nicole Seary

    A radical new vision of the nation's founding era and a major act of historical recovery

    Featuring more than 120 writers, this groundbreaking anthology reveals the astonishing richness and diversity…

    $104.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis

    Jan Ellen Lewis

    One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early US Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions…

    $151.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order