Seven articles, revised from a May 1995 conference of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, present alternative views to the conventional wisdom and myths which have sprung up around the Civil Wa
By tracing the rise of a national intellectual elite to the conditions presented by the American Revolution, to the nature of eighteenth-century educational institutions, and the reading that was avai
Kaminski's biography analyzes the public career of George Clinton (1739-1812), from Ulster County militia officer to "Pharoah of New York" and Vice President under both Jefferson and Madison. An outsp
In this book, prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage
Birth of the Nation is the first comprehensive treatment of the work of the critically important Congress which converted the words of the Federal Constitution of 1787 into action and brought to a clo
Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institu
