Feldman, Noah

Summary: "An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 FEL

Forret, Jeff

Summary: "A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 FOR

Bryant, Jonathan M.

Summary: A professor of history who specializes in slavery and constitutional law investigates one of the most significant--and unjustly forgotten--Supreme Court cases in American history involving the slave ship Antelope and the three hundred African lives at stake.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2015

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Kilmeade, Brian

Summary: "Upon his election as President of the troubled United States, Abraham Lincoln faced a dilemma. He knew it was time for slavery to go, but how fast could the country change without being torn apart? Many abolitionists wanted Lincoln to move quickly, overturning the founding documents along the way. But Lincoln believed there was a way to extend equality to all while keeping and living up to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Kilmeade

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)

Contents: The planting colonies -- The farming colonies -- The trading colonies -- The period of revolution, 1774-1787 -- The federal convention, 1787 -- Toussaint L'Ouverture and anti-slavery effort, 1787-1806 -- The period of attempted suppression, 1807-1825 -- The international status of the slave-trade, 1783-1862 -- The rise of the cotton kingdom, 1820-1850 -- The final crisis, 1850-1870 -- The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.1 DUB

Goldstone, Lawrence

Summary: "On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 341.6 GOL

Bajramovic, Hana

Summary: "The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the "equality amendment," was passed in 1868 during the time after the Civil War to help protect the rights and freedoms of Black Americans. In the centuries that followed, the amendment grew to protect the rights of women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people as well. But in recent years, the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment has shifted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 342.73 BAJ

Fehrenbacher, Don E. (Don Edward)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2001

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