James Oakes

12 books

The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution by James Oakes

The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

James Oakes

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 by James Oakes

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

James Oakes

596 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
Of the People: A Concise History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877 by Michael E. McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, Jeanne Boydston

Of the People: A Concise History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877

Michael E. McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, Jeanne Boydston

608 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

James Oakes

328 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders by James Oakes

Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders

James Oakes

307 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War by James Oakes

The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

James Oakes

208 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South by James Oakes

Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South

James Oakes

268 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation by David W. Blight, Carole Emberton, Chandra Manning, Greg Downs, James Oakes, Jim Downs, Eric Foner, Susan O'Donovan, Justin Behrend, Hannah Rosen, Kate Masur, Brenda E. Stevenson, Richard Newman, Thavolia Glymph

Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation

David W. Blight, Carole Emberton, Chandra Manning, Greg Downs, James Oakes, Jim Downs, Eric Foner, Susan O'Donovan, Justin Behrend, Hannah Rosen, Kate Masur, Brenda E. Stevenson, Richard Newman, Thavolia Glymph

208 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Of the People: A History of the Unites States: Volume II: Since 1865 by Michael E. McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, Jeanne Boydston

Of the People: A History of the Unites States: Volume II: Since 1865

Michael E. McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, Jeanne Boydston

640 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

history informative slow-paced
The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit by James Oakes, Evan D. Bernick, Randy E. Barnett

The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit

James Oakes, Evan D. Bernick, Randy E. Barnett

432 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced