American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation

American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation

A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists--free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes--and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era

On July 4, 182…

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