Providence: H. H. Brown & A. H. Stillwell, 1840.
First Edition. Paperback. The elegant paddlewheel steamboat Lexington, commissioned by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1834, was enroute from New York to Boston when it caught fire on January 13, 1840. This work is an account of the inquest jury’s 8-day investigation, its.....

New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2000.
First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2", black paper over boards, xvii, 737pp, epilogue, appendix, bibiography, index, illus. with 19 plates. It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in.....

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2", printed wrappers, xiii, 396pp, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Historians have long recognized that members of the lower branch of the legal profession, the ancestors of the modern solicitors, played an important part in early modern English society, but.....

Seven Stories Press, 2003.
Paperback. With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged.....

W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Paperback. An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins in antebellum activism and adoption amidst intense postwar politics to their virtual nullification by narrow Supreme.....

Penguin Books, 2008.
Paperback. The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental changePaul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement.....

Broadway Books, 2005.
Paperback. The gripping true story of the "duel to end all duels" in medieval France as a resolute knight defends his wife's honor against the squire she accuses of a heinous crime. In the midst of the devastating Hundred Years' War between France and England, Jean de Carrouges.....

Princeton University Press, 2019.
Hardcover. A richly illustrated history of women's suffrage in the United States that highlights underrecognized activists Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women is the first richly illustrated book to reveal the history and complexity of the national.....

Little Brown and Company, 2020.
Paperback. A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including.....

University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Paperback. Thou shalt not hurt others with words. That commandment looks harmless, even admirable. But it is neither. As Jonathan Rauch states in this groundbreaking book, "This moral principle is deadly - inherently deadly, not incidentally so - to intellectual freedom and to the productive.....

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018.
Paperback. New York Times Bestseller - Notable Book of the Year - Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates' "Amazing Books" of the YearOne of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn NPR Best Book of the.....

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Introduction by Elisabeth Israels Perry. Challenging conventional stereotypes of the political cartoonist, dozens of American women made cartoons advocating women's suffrage in the early twentieth century. Their compelling and imaginative cartoons, strengthened by newly established art education for.....

Harper Paperbacks, 2019.
Paperback. A must-read for this era."--Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent An insightful, urgent, and perennially relevant handbook that lays out in common sense language how the United States Constitution works, and how its protections are eroding before our eyes--essential reading for anyone who wants.....