Books written by Nancy Isenberg

Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

(St. Louis: F. H. Thomas Law, 1914), 1:474; “Trial of John C. Colt for the Murder of Samuel Adams.” Sun-Extra (N.Y.), January 31, 1842. Ioz. See John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge University ...
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality

The Warren-Adams friendship grew strong over the trying decade of their colony's confrontation with London.” These were already, as Thomas Paine was to record, the times that tried men's souls. In mid-April 1775, Dr. Warren dispatched ...
White Trash: The 400-year Untold History of Class in America

For Robert Walker's speech on Texas annexation, see appendix to Congressional Globe, Senate, 28th Congress, 1st Session, June 1844,557. Robert Walker, Letter of Mr. Walker of Mississippi, Relative to the Annexation of Texas (Washington, ...
Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

interpretation of necessaries , see Timothy Walker " Legal Condition of Woman , " 348-49 . For an example of how American law restricted the liability for necessaries according to the husband's ability to pay , see Every Woman Her Own ...
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality

England in the spring of 1828, President Adams named as his successor the New Yorker Peter Porter, a War of 1812 general and recipient of a commendation"for gallantry"from Congress. As Porter took up Adams's cause in the New York press, ...
Madison and Jefferson

Jefferson, a burgess, had a hand in the fasting resolution; he issued a plea for the colonies to be of “one Heart and one Mind” in answering “every injury to American rights.” It was in the same year that Jefferson, soft-spoken in ...
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Cazenove distributed legal fees to several prominent Federalists : Josiah Ogden Hoffman , the state's attorney general ( $ 3,000 ) ; Thomas Morris , the state senator who steered the bill through the upper house ( $ 1,000 ) ; and a ...
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

On sending out the appeals for money on the first of the month, see Montgomery, “Unholy Roller Coaster," 106; Nicholas Von Hoffman, “White Trash Moves Front and Center,” Bangor Daily News, April 8, 1987. Hoffman's editorial appeared ...
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Challenges popular beliefs about the Revolutionary era figure, revealing how Alexander Hamilton subverted Burr's career, and presents evidence of Burr's political talents and dedicated patriotism.
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

The New York Times bestseller: a ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.
Madison and Jefferson

JM, King, and Bedford, June 30, ibid., 224, 228, 229–30; for Paterson's complaint about the rudeness of Madison, see Paterson, ... 311, 326–27, 344, 386–93, 423–25, 457–59, 520, Robertson, Constitution and America's Destiny, 148. 69.
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

James Wilkinson to AB, May 23, 26, 1804, in Burr Papers, microfilm, reel 5; Isaac J. Cox, “General Wilkinson and His Later Intrigues with the Spaniards,” American Historical Review 19 (July 1914): 800. Albert Gallatin to Thomas ...
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer’s Trials In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, ...
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Nancy Isenberg's eye-opening, painstakingly researched biography reveals a true patriot. A brave participant in the Revolutionary War and and Enlightenment figure as much as Jefferson, he was a feminist and...
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality

The English political theorist determined that the state's health depended on the education of its youth. ... wandering young man was obliged to report on all he saw of other countries' governments, and anything else new or curious.
Mortal Remains: Death in Early America

In this volume historians and literary scholars join forces to explore how, in a medically primitive and politically evolving environment, mortality became an issue that was inseparable from national self-definition.
Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory

In this distinctive collection, historians and literary scholars come together to reassess Irving’s imaginative world and complex cultural legacy.
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of the American fabric, and reveals how the wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of ...