Israel on the Appomattox
A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
Written by Melvin Patrick Ely

Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: August 16, 2005
Price: $18.00

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE
WINNER OF THE ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE AWARD
WINNER OF THE WESLEY-LOGAN PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS and JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN PRIZES

Thomas Jefferson denied that whites and liberated blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African... Read more >

William Cooper's Town
Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
Written by Alan Taylor

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $18.00

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the William J. Beveridge Award

This innovative work of social history, biography, and literary analysis is a study of two men, father and son, who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early days of the Republic.  William Cooper seemed to manifest the... Read more >

Buffalo Bill's America

Written by Louis S. Warren

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $16.95

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity?

In this... Read more >