The Republicans' next step was even more controversial—a bill that by manipulating the scheduling of Supreme Court ... Marshall was tempted to follow the strategy of defiance, but other members of the court took a more conciliatory ...
Address of the Inhabitants of Anson County to Governor Martin , 1776 Just six years after Regulators of western North Carolina deluged the colonial assembly with such petitions , hundreds of the same colonists signed petitions ...
In this lively collection of conversations—the third in a series from David Rubenstein—some of our nations’ greatest minds explore the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas.
Blight's broad knowledge about Douglass was aided immeasurably in this book by a treasure trove of Douglass family ... 151 6P_Rubenstein_AmericanExp_EP.indd 151 6/23/21 12:14 PM 6/23/21 12:14 PM DAVID W. BLIGHT on Frederick Douglass 151.
Brown moved his family to North Elba , New York , to farm an estate donated to him by the prominent abolitionist Gerritt Smith . There , Brown and his growing sons continued to ferry runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad to ...
The American Experiment: A History of the United States
In this lively collection of conversations some of our nation's greatest minds explore the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas.
The American Experiment: A History of the United States
The American Experiment: since 1865
The American Experiment: Complete
The American Experiment
Approaching the American History survey course in an innovative way, this mid-length text features a more expansive definition of political history.
The American Experiment: A History of the United States
This book sets out the history of "The American Experiment" in self-government focusing on its original legal documents, The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution.
Dissatisfied with existing textbooks, the editors of The American Experiment have assembled 29 lectures from outstanding teachers of American politics to offer a comprehensive overview of American government, from the...
Using an expansive definition of political history, the text explores the evolution of a distinctive American culture in a transnational context. [This] edition features ... greater attention to colonial America's place in the Atlantic ...
A brief critical sketch of govermental machinery ... a panoramic description of the great modern nation: its work, its play, its moral qualities and prejudices, its emotions, beliefs and ambitions.--Foreword.
Approaching the American history survey course in an innovative way, this mid-length text features a more expansive definition of political history that includes all forms of politics, not just electoral politics, while simultaneously ...
The American Experiment: A History of the United States
The American Experiment: Perspectives on 200 Years