The first full biography of the controversial and complex First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler-an unjustly scandalized New Yorker, the second lady to the "traitor president," and a savvy and consequential political figure in the age of the Civil War. Myths, rumors, and gossip have long circulated around First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler. Commonly ......
In this concise history of the Louisiana Purchase, renowned presidential scholar Lara M. Brown explores how Thomas Jefferson's skilled diplomacy and political strategy helped secure the historic bargain and changed the course of American history. Thomas Jefferson is one of the more inscrutable characters in American history. While he is best ......
In this concise history of the Louisiana Purchase, renowned presidential scholar Lara M. Brown explores how Thomas Jefferson's skilled diplomacy and political strategy helped secure the historic bargain and changed the course of American history. Thomas Jefferson is one of the more inscrutable characters in American history. While he is best ......
An original and deeply researched look at how Scottish Enlightenment ideals interacted with religious philosophy to inform and inspire abolitionists and enslavers alike in the founding of the American republic. The concept of liberty-so important to the American founding-was significantly informed by Scottish Enlightenment philosophy, which was ......
From a rising intersex activist in the Midwest, a candid memoir about growing up different and an inspiring story of self-discovery and self-acceptance. When Chris Arnone was born in Independence, Missouri, nobody could tell what sex he was. For the first few days of his life, until a chromosome test confirmed he was a boy, his parents called ......
This third and final volume in Allan Millett's comprehensive history of the Korean War is a journey through the final years of the conflict and a deep examination of the Geneva Convention in 1954. By July of 1951, the war on the Korean peninsula had been raging for a year and the capital of Seoul had changed hands four times. Armistice talks had ......
On History's Front Lines from Watergate to the Keating Five, Clinton Impeachment, and Benghazi
For more than half a century, James Hamilton has been an active participant and an inside observer of some of the most consequential moments in modern US history. He has been involved in investigations concerning Watergate, the Kennedy assassination, "Debategate," the Keating Five, the Clinton impeachment, Vince Foster's suicide, the Valerie Plame ......
Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty
The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln's political thought, Michael P. Zuckert's A Nation So Conceived argues for a coherent center to Lincoln's political ideology, a core idea that unifies his thought and thus illuminates his deeds as a political actor. That core idea is captured in the term "democratic sovereignty." Zuckert provides ......
The Rise of Electoral Democracy in the Early American Republic
In this groundbreaking and comprehensive look at Congressional elections in pre-Jacksonian America, Jay K. Dow examines the origins of our modern electoral politics. When did the United States become a recognizably modern republic? The traditional understanding is that elections in the Age of Jackson introduced institutionalized political ......
