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The Constitution
- A brilliant solution: inventing the American Constitution
- Author: Berkin, Carol
Publication information: New York : Harcourt, c2002
Call Number: E303 .B47 2002
Location: General
- Free in the world: American slavery and constitutional failure
- Author: Brandon, Mark E
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998
Call Number: KF4541 .B684 1998
Location: General
- From parchment to power: how James Madison used the Bill of Rights to save the Constitution
- Author: Goldwin, Robert A., 1922-
Publication information: Washington, DC : AEI Press, 1997
Call Number: KF4541 .G65 1997
Location: General
- Thomas Jefferson and the wall of separation between church and state
- Author: Dreisbach, Daniel L
Publication information: New York : New York University Press, c2002
Call Number: E332.2 .D74 2002
Location: General
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Eighteenth Century Party Politics
- Adams vs. Jefferson: the tumultuous election of 1800
- Author: Ferling, John E
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
Call Number: E330 .F47 2004
Location: General
- Forgotten founder: the life and times of Charles Pinckney
- Author: Matthews, Marty D., 1961-
Publication information: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2004
Call Number: E302.6.P54 M38 2004
Location: General
- Jefferson vs. Hamilton: confrontations that shaped a nation
- Author: Cunningham, Noble E., 1926-
Publication information: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2000
Call Number: E310 .C86 2000
Location: General
- The new republic: the United States of America, 1789-1815
- Author: Horsman, Reginald
Publication information: Harlow, England New York : Longman, 2000
Call Number: E310 .H67 2000
Location: General
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Transportation Revolution
- Passage to Union: how the railroads transformed American life, 1829-1929 19th century chapters only
- Author: Gordon, Sarah, 1950-
Publication information: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 1996
Call Number: HE2751 .G64 1996
Location: General
- The artificial river: the Erie Canal and the paradox of progress, 1817-1862
- Author: Sheriff, Carol
Publication information: [New York] : Hill and Wang, 1996
Call Number: F127.E5 S54 1996
Location: General
- The birth of empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American experience, 1769-1828
- Author: Cornog, Evan
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998
Call Number: E340.C65 C74 1998
Location: General
- Wedding of the waters: the Erie Canal and the making of a great nation
- Author: Bernstein, Peter L
Publication information: New York : W.W. Norton, c2005
Call Number: HE396.E6 B47 2005
Location: General
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Age of Jackson
- Andrew Jackson & his Indian wars
- Author: Remini, Robert Vincent, 1921-
Publication information: New York : Viking, c2001
Call Number: E381 .R413 2001
Location: General
- Andrew Jackson, symbol for an age
- Author: Ward, John William, 1922-
Publication information: New York, Oxford University Press, 1955
Call Number: E 382 .W24
Location: General
- The presidency of Andrew Jackson
- Author: Cole, Donald B
Publication information: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1993
Call Number: E382 .C69 1993
Location: General
- Young Hickory: the making of Andrew Jackson
- Author: Booraem, Hendrik, 1939-
Publication information: Dallas, Tex. : Taylor Trade Pub., c2001
Call Number: E382 .B67 2001
Location: General
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Slavery
- Ar'n't I a woman?: female slaves in the plantation South
- Author: White, Deborah Gray
Publication information: New York : Norton, c1985
Call Number: E 443 .W58 1985
Location: General
- Born in bondage: growing up enslaved in the antebellum South
- Author: Schwartz, Marie Jenkins, 1946-
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000
Call Number: E443 .S39 2000
Location: General
- Complicity: how the North promoted, prolonged, and profited from slavery
- Author: Farrow, Anne
Publication information: New York : Ballantine Books, c2005
Call Number: E441 .F35 2005
Location: General
- The slave community: plantation life in the antebellum South
- Author: Blassingame, John W., 1940-
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 1979
Call Number: E443 .B55 1979
Location: General
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Abolitionists
- Abolitionism: a revolutionary movement
- Author: Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-
Publication information: Boston : Twayne Publishers, c1989
Call Number: E449 .A156 1989
Location: General
- The African colonization movement, 1816-1865
- Author: Staudenraus, P. J
Publication information: New York, Columbia University Press, 1961
Call Number: E 448 .S78
Location: General
- Harriet Tubman: the road to freedom
- Author: Clinton, Catherine, 1952-
Publication information: New York : Little, Brown, c2004
Call Number: E444.T82 C57 2004
Location: General
- When slavery was called freedom: evangelicalism, proslavery, and the causes of the Civil War
- Author: Daly, John Patrick, 1964-
Publication information: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2002
Call Number: E449 .D23 2002
Location: General
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Expansionism
- Empire on the Pacific: a study in American continental expansion
- Author: Graebner, Norman A
Publication information: Claremont, Calif. : Regina Books, 1989, c1983
Call Number: E179.5 .G7 1989
Location: General
- Mr. Polk's army: the American military experience in the Mexican War
- Author: Winders, Richard Bruce, 1953-
Publication information: College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c1997
Call Number: E409.2 .W56 1997
Location: General
- Slavemaster president: the double career of James Polk
- Author: Dusinberre, William, 1930-
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
Call Number: E417 .D87 2003
Location: General
- Slavery and the American West: the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War
- Author: Morrison, Michael A., 1948-
Publication information: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997
Call Number: E415.7 .M88 1997
Location: General
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Sectional Crisis
- Bleeding Kansas: contested liberty in the Civil War era
- Author: Etcheson, Nicole
Publication information: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2004
Call Number: E433 .E83 2004
Location: General
- Half slave and half free: the roots of civil war
- Author: Levine, Bruce C., 1949-
Publication information: New York : Hill and Wang, 2005
Call Number: E459 .L48 2005
Location: General
- The secret six: the true tale of the men who conspired with John Brown
- Author: Renehan, Edward, 1956-Make sure this is the author
Publication information: New York : Crown Publishers, c1995
Call Number: E451 .R44 1995
Location: General
- The southern dream of a Caribbean empire, 1854-1861
- Author: May, Robert E
Publication information: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [1973]
Call Number: F 2178 .U6 M39
Location: General
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Civil War
- Lincoln's melancholy: how depression challenged a president and fueled his greatness
- Author: Shenk, Joshua Wolf
Publication information: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005
Call Number: E457.2 .S47 2005
Location: General
- Bitter fruits of bondage: the demise of slavery and the collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865
- Author: Robinson, Armstead L
Publication information: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2005
Call Number: E453 .R63 2005
Location: General
- They fought like demons: women soldiers in the American Civil War
- Author: Blanton, DeAnne, 1964-
Publication information: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2002
Call Number: E628 .B52 2002
Location: General
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Author: Bunting, Josiah, 1939-
Publication information: New York : Times Books, 2004
Call Number: E672 .B93 2004
Location: General
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- Robert E. Lee: a life portrait
- Author: Eicher, David J., 1961-
Publication information: Lanham, MD : Taylor Trade Pub., 2002
Call Number: E467.1.L4 E35 2002
Location: General
- Robert E. Lee: a life portrait
- Author: Eicher, David J., 1961-
Publication information: Dallas, Tex : Taylor Pub. Co., c1997
Call Number: E467.1.L4 E35 1997
Location: General
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