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As an engaging and persuasive survey of American public life from 1816 to 1848, this work remains a landmark achievement. Now updated to address twenty-five yea

A perennial choice for courses on antebellum America, Jacksonian America continues to be a popular classroom text with scholars of the period, even among those

The Jacksonian period under review in this dictionary served as a transition period for the United States. The growing pains of the republic’s infancy, during

The emergence of the Mormon church is arguably the most radical event in American religious history. How and why did so many Americans flock to this new religio

This richly detailed biography of Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) sheds new light on the political and personal life of this nephew and namesake of Andrew J