History - United States

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Hurricane from the Heavens: The Battl...

Daniel Davis

"Lee's army is really whipped," Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant believed.May 1864 had witnessed near-constant combat between his Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Grant, unlike his predece...

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Published: May 2014

A Cowboy of the Pecos

Patrick Dearen

In the late 1880s, the Pecos River region of Texas and southern New Mexico was known as “the cowboy’s paradise.” And the cowboys who worked in and around the river were known as “the most expert cowboys in the world.” A Cowb...

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Published: Nov 2016

Ghostland: An American History in Hau...

Colin Dickey

One of NPR's Great Reads of 2016"A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories… absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing."—The New York Times Book ReviewAn intellectual feast for fans of offbeat...

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Published: Oct 2017

Historic Glensheen 1905-1930: Photogr...

Tony Dierckins

Inside these pages you will find 115 photos—most never before seen by the public—of Glensheen, the historic 22-acre Congdon estate along the Lake Superior shore in Duluth, Minnesota. Many were captured in 1909, when the Congdon's ...

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Published: Jun 2015

Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassinat...

John Dos Passos

A dazzling work of American history from the author of the U.S.A. trilogy.Beginning with the assassination of McKinley and ending with the defeat of the League of Nations by the United States Senate, the twenty-year period covered by ...

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Published: Nov 2013

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of Am...

Joseph J. Ellis

A Washington Post Notable BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country's founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agr...

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Published: May 2014

This Republic of Suffering: Death and...

Drew Gilpin Faust

More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale c...

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Published: Jan 2009

The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of t...

Kevin Fedarko

From one of Outside magazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983.I...

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Published: Jul 2014

1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History...

Charles Bracelen Flood

In a masterful narrative, historian and biographer Charles Bracelen Flood brings to life the drama of Lincoln's final year, in which he oversaw the last campaigns of the Civil War, was reelected as president, and laid out his majestic...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Second Founding: How the Civil Wa...

Eric Foner

“Gripping and essential.”—Jesse Wegman, New York Times\n\nAn authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments...

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Published: Aug 2020

Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography ...

Benjamin Franklin

Famous as a scientist, statesman, philosopher, businessman, and civic leader, Benjamin Franklin was also one of the most powerful and controversial American writers of his time. He has been a subject of intense debate ever since: to M...

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Published: Jan 2011

Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of ...

Winston Groom

A thrilling re-creation of a crucial campaign in the Mexican-American War and a pivotal moment in America's history.  In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with a thousand cavalrymen of the ...

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Published: Nov 2012

Passionate Nation: The Epic History o...

James L. Haley

Texas has become the most American of all the states. Texas's politics has taken over in Washington, and Texas's passionate sense of itself as a nation is echoed by the fervent patriotism of tens of millions of Americans. Texas is als...

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Published: Apr 2009

Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood ...

Mark Harris

The extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most important directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it foreverHere is the remarkable, untold story of how five major Hollywood directors...

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Published: Feb 2015

A Documentary History of the United S...

Richard D. Heffner

Here, in a single volume, are the documents, speeches, and letters that have forged American history, accompanied by interpretations of their significance by noted historian and broadcaster Richard D. Heffner with online journalist ...

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Published: Oct 2013

Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the U...

George Hendrick

Selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin and William Still. Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in t...

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Published: Feb 2004

The Anti-Federalist Papers (Dover Thr...

Patrick Henry

Between the first proposals of a federal Constitution in 1787 and the document's 1789 ratification, an intense debate raged among the nation's founding fathers. The Federalist Papers-- authored by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, an...

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Published: May 2020

The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other...

Tony Hillerman

This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to understand the state's unique charm. The engaging pieces in The Great Taos Bank Robbery unveil...

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Published: Apr 2012

Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst...

James S. Hirsch

A bestselling author investigates how the deadliest race riot of the 20th century erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, how it was covered up, and how its victims and their descendants are fighting for belated justice. Two 8-page photo inserts.

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Published: Jun 2003

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the R...

Tony Horwitz

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011Late on the night of October 16, 1859, John Brown launched a surprise raid on the slaveholding South. Leadi...

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Published: Aug 2012

Freethinkers: A History of American S...

Susan Jacoby

'Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion.' -Los Angeles Times Book Review At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerf...

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Published: Jan 2005

Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Tim...

Nelson Johnson

Providing the inspiration and source material for the upcoming HBO series produced by Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Terence Winter, this riveting and wide-reaching history explores ...

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Published: Sep 2010

1959: The Year Everything Changed

Fred Kaplan

Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the n...

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Published: Apr 2010

The American Civil War: A Military Hi...

John Keegan

For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America's most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four...

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Published: Oct 2010

All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Lif...

Phil Keith

Winner of the Gold Medal for Memoir/Biography from the Military Writers Society of America\r\n\r\nA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\r\n\r\n“A whale of a tale, told clearly and quickly. I read the entire book in ...

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Published: Oct 2020

Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and...

Frederick Kempe

In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was mor...

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Published: Jan 2012

Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: T...

Brian Kilmeade

The New York Timesbestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue. In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After thirteen days of fighting...

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Published: May 2020

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall...

Gilbert King

A gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law, Devil in the Grove brings to light one of the most dramatic court cases in American history, and offers a rare and revealing portrait of Thurgood Marshall that the world has ...

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Published: Feb 2013

Why We Can't Wait (King Legacy)

Martin Luther King

Dr. King's best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963   In 1963, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign laun...

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Published: Jan 2011

China Men

Maxine Hong Kingston

The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.

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Published: Apr 1989
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