The new edition of this classic work addresses how the first generation of leaders of the United States dealt with the profoundly important question of human bo
Washington. The widow Washington ; Martha Dandridge ; Married lady ; Mistress of Mount Vernon ; Revolutionary war ; First lady ; Slaves in the president's house
“Wilentz brings a lifetime of learning and a mastery of political history to this brilliant book.” —David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass A New Yo
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and
"A ... synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their des