By exploring in detail land reform movements in Britain and the United States, this book transcends traditional labor history and conceptions of class to deepen

Historians and biographers have struggled to reconcile these seemingly contradictory tendencies. Tuchinsky's history of the Tribune, by placing the newspaper an

The National Reform Association (NRA) was an antebellum land reform movement inspired by the shared dream of a future shaped by egalitarian homesteads. Mark A.

John R. Van Atta examines the visions of the founding generation and the increasing influence of ideological differences in the years after the peace of 1815. A