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Welcome to our virtual exhibit for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic meeting! All of the books listed here are available to you at the meeting discount of 30% off list price plus free shipping. Click on the buy buttons below and use the promotional code EX58026 in the shopping cart to get 30% off physical books.*

Books in this field are acquired by Tim Mennel.

Ebook discount: Most of the books published by the University of Chicago Press are also available in ebook form from our website. To get a 20% discount on ebooks published by the University of Chicago Press, use promotional code UCPXEB during checkout. (UCPXEB only applies to full-priced ebooks published by the University of Chicago Press.)

Many of our journals are also available at a 20% discount off with code UCPJ20.** Our journals include American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and CultureThe Journal of African American History, and Archives of American Art Journal.

*This offer is valid until September 20, 2025. For titles where paperback and cloth versions are available, the discount only applies to the paperback.

**Discounts may not apply to all membership journals. Postage may apply to journal subscriptions with a print component. Taxes apply. Visit the journal home pages for more information.

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Featured Books

Plantation Goods

A Material History of American Slavery

Seth Rockman

The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots

A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography

John Swanson Jacobs

Freeman’s Challenge

The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit

Robin Bernstein

Insatiable City

Food and Race in New Orleans

Theresa McCulla

Promise to Pay

The Politics and Power of Money in Early America

Katie A. Moore

Banking on Slavery

Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States

Sharon Ann Murphy

Flowers, Guns, and Money

Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Capital of Mind

The Idea of a Modern American University

Adam R. Nelson

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