Böcker av Mark A. Lause

The untold story of the common efforts of whites, blacks, and Indians on the Civil War's western front

A history of home-grown American radicalism in the 19th century.

Unraveling the influence and power of antebellum secret societies

Argues that it was the working people's interest in equitable access to the country's most obvious asset - land - that led them to advocate a federal Homestead Act granting land to the landless, state legislation to prohibit the foreclosure of family farms, and antimonopolistic limitations on land ownership.