Historian Virginia Scharff breaks through the seemingly impenetrable wall separating Thomas Jefferson?s public legacy and his private life, offering an intriguing new portrait of the founding father a
Throughout his life, Thomas Jefferson constructed a seemingly impenetrable wall between his public legacy and his private life, a division maintained by his family and the several traditional biograph
Scharff's entertaining and erudite look at the "gendering of automobility" was originally published in 1991 by the Free Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
The storybook history of the American West is a male-dominated narrative of drifters, dreamers, hucksters, and heroes--a tale that relegates women, assuming they appear at all, to the distant backgrou
Empire and Liberty brings together two epic subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansi
This text redresses several inadequacies typical of other 20th-century U.S. history texts with an introductory chapter that covers Reconstruction through the 1900s, providing valuable context and bac
