James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights
Richard Labunski

The newest volume in the acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series-- A spellbinding account of how James Madison saved the Constitution and championed the Bill of Rights. Packed with colorful details about life in early America, this compelling and important narrative will return this under-appreciated patriot to his rightful place among the Founding Fathers and shed new light on a key turning point in our nation's history.

Gettysburg Requiem
The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates
Glenn W. LaFantasie

A spell-binding biography of a Confederate officer whose colorful life illuminates the nature of the South before, during, and after the Civil War.

"An engaging biography."--Publishers Weekly

A Well-Regulated Militia
The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
Saul Cornell

Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong.

After Hitler
Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995
Konrad H. Jarausch

In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate themselves from the shame and horror of the Holocaust? In After Hitler, Konrad H. Jarausch seeks to answer this question by analyzing how civility and civil society, destroyed by the Nazi regime, were restored during the post-war period.

The Oxford Dictionary of Civil War Quotations
John D. Wright

These wartime observations of soldiers and civilians, provide different perspectives on America's worst backyard battle. Organized by topic and collecting quotations from people from different classes and with different perspectives on the conflict, The Oxford Book of Civil War Quotations should engage the casual reader as well as be an essential volume for the library of Civil War buffs.

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