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The Oxford History of the United States is an ongoing multivolume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press.Conceived in the 1950s and launched in 1961 under the co-editorship of historians Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward, the series has been edited by David M. Kennedy since 1999.
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 is a nonfiction book written by the American historian Gordon S. Wood.Published as a clothbound hardcover in 2009 as part of the Oxford History of the United States series, the book narrates the history of the United States in the first twenty-six years following the ratification of the U. S. Constitution.
In the 1950s, historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter envisioned a multivolume history of the United States, the Oxford History of the United States, modeled on the Oxford History of England. [1] They began their co-editorship with Oxford University Press in earnest in 1961 and reached out to historians to request manuscripts.
Book publisher Oxford University Press produces "Oxford histories", a line of book series usually intended to broadly synthesize historical topics. [1] In 1961, historians Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward began co-editing the Oxford History of the United States. [2]
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a 1988 book on the American Civil War, written by James M. McPherson. It is the sixth volume of the Oxford History of the United States series. An abridged, illustrated version was published in 2003. [1] The book won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History. [2]
Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984: History – U.K. 019: Medieval Britain: John Gillingham, Ralph A. Griffiths: 10 August 2000: Chapters from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984: History – U.K. 020: The Tudors: John Guy: 10 August 2000 29 August 2013 (2nd ed.) Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History ...
Before writing for the Oxford History of the United States, Middlekauff had been known as a specialist in colonial American history. [14] He was the author of the 1963 Ancients and Axioms: Secondary Education in Eighteenth-Century New England and the 1971 The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728. [15]
Oxford Companions is a book series published by Oxford University Press, providing general knowledge within a specific area. [1] The first book published in the series was The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1932), compiled by the retired diplomat Sir Paul Harvey .