Two ships Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the struggle for the soul of America
"A revelatory deep history of American division, through the prism of the two ships whose widespread use to define that division has been lost to memory but whose legacy endures In the bitterly polarized decades leading up to the American Civil War, it was commonplace to argue that America's strife...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Launchings
- Roots of American democracy
- Puritanism, race, and slavery
- Puritans, Cavaliers, and the English civil war era
- The rise and fall of the Virginia Cavalier
- The American revolution and Puritan freedom-fighting
- Ships, slavery, and sentimental power
- Then there were two
- Northern Puritans vs. Southern Cavaliers
- The culture war behind the Civil War
- Reconstruction wars and compromise
- Beyond the two ships.
