American Visions
The United States, 1800-1860
A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today.
Through decades of award-winning scholarship on the Civil War, Edward L. Ayers has himself ventured beyond the interpretative status quo to recover the range of possibilities embedded in the past as it was lived. Here he turns that distinctive historical sensibility to a period when bold visionaries and critics built vigorous traditions of dissent and innovation into the foundation of the nation. Those traditions remain alive for us today.
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Visit the website for Visions to see evocative videos, a travelogue, and links to original sources.