American Republics
A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American History In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European empires and other independent republics on the North American continent. Native peoples sought to defend their homelands from the flood of American settlers through strategic alliances with the other continental powers. The system of American slavery grew…
A Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of 2021
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.
$27.00
May 17, 2022
Born and raised in Maine, Alan Taylor teaches American and Canadian history at the University of Virginia. His books include The Divided Ground, Writing Early American History, American Colonies, and William Cooper’s Town, which won the Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes for American history. He also serves as a contributing editor to The New Republic.
American Civil Wars
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American Republics
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Thomas Jefferson's Education
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American Revolutions
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The Internal Enemy
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The Civil War of 1812
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The Divided Ground
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American Colonies
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