Douglas R. Egerton, Author . Oxford Univ. $29.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-19-530669-9
Egerton (Gabriel's Rebellion
) traverses the rise and the debatable inevitability of slavery in the United States between the end of the Seven Years' War (1763) and Jefferson's election (1800), arguing that the “division of the...
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Douglas R. Egerton, Bloomsbury Press, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59691-619-7
The center could not hold amid a flood of passionate intensity recorded in this illuminating study of the 1860 election campaign. Historian Egerton (Death or Liberty) chronicles the year’s chaotic political wranglings, from the fractious party...
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Douglas R. Egerton, Author University of North Carolina Press $75 (280p) ISBN 978-0-8078-2113-8
In a volume certain to provoke debate, Egerton ( Charles Fenton Mercer and the Trial of National Conservatism ) analyzes two important slave revolts of the early 19th century as having to do with economics and class as much as with slavery and race.
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Douglas R. Egerton. Bloomsbury, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-1-60819-566-4
In this challenging history of America’s first age of “progressive reform,” Egerton, a professor of history at Le Moyne College, argues that the era of Reconstruction constituted the “most democratic” decades of the 19th century. Following the...
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Douglas R. Egerton. Basic, $29.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-465-09664-0
In this solid addition to the Civil War literature, Egerton (The Wars of Reconstruction), professor of history at Le Moyne College, revisits the story of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Division, one of the state’s three African-American...
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