Books written by James Oakes

Making a Nation Documents: The United States and Its People

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The Ruling Race

James L. Roark, Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (New York, 1977), 10; [?] to J. H. Whitten, Feb. 18, 1855, J. H. Whitten Letter. 53. Mary Burruss McGehee to John W. Burruss, May 29, 1836, ...
Making a Nation: The United States and Its People

This textbook presents a survey of the political, social and cultural development of the early United States, with emphasis upon the origins of the basic American institutions and ideals, from European contact to Reconstruction.
Mapping United States History: Coloring and Exercise Book, Volume Two: Since 1865

Designed specifically to accompany Of the People: A History of the United States, Fourth Edition by Michael McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, Mark Summers, Camilla Townsend, and Karen M. Dunak, Mapping United States ...
Of the People with Sources Volume 2 Since 1865: A History of the United States

It also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to its modern challenges.
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865

mcPherson, Battle Cry ofFreedom: The Civil War Era (New york: oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 718–750; michael burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), vol. 2, pp. 665–680.
Of the People: A History of the United States with Sources: to 1877

It also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to its modern challenges.
Of the People: A History of the United States with Sources

It also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to its modern challenges.
Of the People: A History of the United States with Sources

It also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to its modern challenges.
Mapping United States History: A Coloring and Exercise Book, Volume One: To 1877

Designed specifically to accompany Of the People: A History of the United States, Fourth Edition by Michael McGerr, Jane Ellen Lewis, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, Mark Summers, Camilla Townsend, and Karen M. Dunak, Mapping United States ...
Of the People: A History of the United States with Sources

It also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to its modern challenges.
Of the People: A History of the United States with Sources

It also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to its modern challenges.
Of the People: A History of the United States with Sources

It also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to its modern challenges.
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

A narrative history of the Civil War looks at the lives and careers of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, two men who played iconic roles during the era and who had a profound impact on the Civil War, slavery and emancipation, and race ...
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States.
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.
Of the People: A History of the United States

Of the People: A Concise History of the United States, Second Edition, not only tells the history of America--of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals--but it also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how ...
Of the People: A History of the United States, Volume I: to 1877, with Sources

It traces the history of America - its people, places, and ideals - and unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how the country's evolution has been anything but certainfrom its complex beginnings to its modern challenges ...
Of the People: A History of the United States

Of the People: A History of the United States not only tells the history of America--of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals--but it also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution ...
Of the People: A History of the United States with Sources

Of the People: A History of the United States, Third Edition, not only tells the history of America--of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals--but it also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this ...