America in the Nineteenth Century
America in the Nineteenth Century proposes a rigorous rethinking of this most formative period in U.S. history. Books in the series will be wide-ranging and eclectic, with an interest in politics at all levels, culture and capitalism, race and slavery, law, gender, the environment, and regional and transnational history. The series aims to expand the scope of nineteenth-century historiography by bringing classic questions into dialogue with innovative perspectives, approaches, and methodologies.
Series Editors:
Brian DeLay
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Steven Hahn
Professor of History, New York University
Amy Dru Stanley
Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor
rlockhar@upenn.edu
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American Burial Ground
A New History of the Overland Trail
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512824513
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some...
Remaking the Republic
Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512824735
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
Citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States was an ever-moving target. The Constitution did not specify its exact meaning, leaving lawmakers and other Americans to struggle over the fundamental...
I've Been Here All the While
Black Freedom on Native Land
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512824728
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All...
The Alchemy of Slavery
Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225174
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
In this sweeping saga that spans empires, peoples, and nations, M. Scott Heerman chronicles the long history of slavery in the heart of the continent and traces its many iterations through law and social...
The Black Republic
African Americans and the Fate of Haiti
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225198
Pub Date: February 2022
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere....
Illusions of Empire
The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253511
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. Southwest in the context of diplomacy, politics, economics,...
Borderlands of Slavery
The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225020
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt...
Prairie Imperialists
The Indian Country Origins of American Empire
ISBN: 9781512823530
Pub Date: February 2022
Format: eBook
Mastering Emotions
Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812253399
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Emotions were central to the ways that slaveholders perpetuated slavery, as well as to the ways that enslaved people survived and challenged bondage and experienced freedom. Mastering Emotions examines...
The Kingdom and the Republic
Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224917
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years was...

American Burial Ground
A New History of the Overland Trail
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512824513
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Remaking the Republic
Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512824735
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
I've Been Here All the While
Black Freedom on Native Land
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512824728
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
The Alchemy of Slavery
Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225174
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
The Black Republic
African Americans and the Fate of Haiti
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225198
Pub Date: February 2022
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Illusions of Empire
The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253511
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Borderlands of Slavery
The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225020
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Prairie Imperialists
The Indian Country Origins of American Empire
ISBN: 9781512823530
Pub Date: February 2022
Format: eBook
Mastering Emotions
Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812253399
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
The Kingdom and the Republic
Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224917
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
312 Pages