A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents presents a series of original essays exploring our historical understanding of the role and legacy of the eight U.S. pr

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A Companion to the History of American Science offers a collection of essays that give an authoritative overview of the most recent scholarship on the history o

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This book argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early American Republic generated a mode of constitutional interpretation that remains powerfu