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Best American History Books
Books about the history of the United States. Non-fiction only, please. Biographies of generals, presidents, activists, etc. are fine, but celebrity bios, even celebrities who lived in turbulent times, will be removed. To be considered History and not Current Events, books must focus on events that occurred at least 50 years ago.
See also:
Best 19th Century American (U.S.) History - 3.7 Stars and Up
Best 20th Century American (U.S.) History - 3.7 Stars and Up
See also:
Best 19th Century American (U.S.) History - 3.7 Stars and Up
Best 20th Century American (U.S.) History - 3.7 Stars and Up
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| 1999 |
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The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories
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| 1999 |
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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Annie Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 9,454 ratings
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| 1999 |
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General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War
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| 2004 |
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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes
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| 2004 |
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Blacks in America’s Wars: The Shift in Attitudes from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam
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| 2004 |
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Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment
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3.89 avg rating — 61 ratings
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| 2004 |
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Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
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3.78 avg rating — 85 ratings
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| 2004 |
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If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania
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| 2009 |
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Gettysburg Battlefield: The Definitive Illustrated History
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4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings
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| 2009 |
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Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire in Monticello
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Andrew Burstein (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 208 ratings
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| 2009 |
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Orthodoxy in Massachusetts 1630-1950
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| 2009 |
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Counterculture and Revolution
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| 2009 |
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Watergate Exposed: How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up As Told to Douglas Caddy, Original Attorney for the Watergate Seven
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| 2009 |
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| 2015 |
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
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4.16 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
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| 2015 |
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
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| 2015 |
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Without Honor: Crimes of Camelot and the Impeachment of Richard Nixon
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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| 2015 |
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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
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3.56 avg rating — 573 ratings
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| 2015 |
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George Washington's Indispensable Men: Alexander Hamilton, Tench Tilghman, and the Aides-de-Camp Who Helped Win American Independence
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4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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| 2020 |
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Breach of Faith: Fall of Richard Nixon
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3.99 avg rating — 324 ratings
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| 2020 |
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I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era
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4.57 avg rating — 28 ratings
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| 2020 |
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Neptune: Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings
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4.41 avg rating — 519 ratings
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| 2020 |
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The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President: Inside the Real Watergate Conspiracy
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3.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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| 2020 |
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Dakota Dawn: The Decisive First Week of the Sioux Uprising, August 17-24, 1862
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4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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| 2025 |
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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
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3.80 avg rating — 2,510 ratings
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| 2025 |
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What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers
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3.52 avg rating — 240 ratings
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| 2025 |
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Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World
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Eric Foner (editor)
3.90 avg rating — 106 ratings
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| 2025 |
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White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story
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3.34 avg rating — 77 ratings
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| 2025 |
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
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| 2025 |
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A Rebel's Recollections
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| 2031 |
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Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington
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3.68 avg rating — 92 ratings
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| 2031 |
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LBJ: The Mastermind of JFK’s Assassination
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4.08 avg rating — 389 ratings
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| 2031 |
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Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
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3.68 avg rating — 478 ratings
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| 2031 |
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
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| 2031 |
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The Three Battles of Sand Creek: In Blood, in Court, and as the End of History
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3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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| 2036 |
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Makin' tracks: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad in the Pictures and Words of the Men Who Were There
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| 2036 |
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Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill-The Shocking Truth Revealed: How Their Secret Deals & Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pearl Harbor & the Philippines
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3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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| 2036 |
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When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
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Eric Jay Dolin (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 541 ratings
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| 2036 |
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Raising the Flag: America's First Envoys in Faraway Lands
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| 2040 |
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Americans at War
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| 2040 |
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War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
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4.06 avg rating — 664 ratings
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| 2040 |
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Hubert Humphrey: A Biography
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| 2040 |
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The Civil War at Sea
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| 2040 |
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Methodical Illusion
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| 2040 |
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Exploring with Frémont
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| 2046 |
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Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces
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3.98 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
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| 2046 |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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Edward E. Baptist (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 5,532 ratings
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| 2046 |
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From Landfill to Hallowed Ground: The Largest Crime Scene in America
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4.07 avg rating — 94 ratings
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| 2046 |
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1775: A Good Year for Revolution
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| 2046 |
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Then Came The Fire
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| 2051 |
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Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
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3.55 avg rating — 87 ratings
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| 2051 |
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The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
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4.26 avg rating — 115 ratings
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| 2051 |
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The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House
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3.79 avg rating — 5,447 ratings
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| 2051 |
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The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
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3.72 avg rating — 236 ratings
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| 2051 |
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Letters from a surgeon of the Civil War; (1906)
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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| 2051 |
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
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3.98 avg rating — 1,062 ratings
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| 2057 |
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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship
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3.52 avg rating — 94 ratings
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| 2057 |
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A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital: Vol 2
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| 2057 |
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Cowpens: "Downright Fighting" : the Story of Cowpens
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| 2060 |
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White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery And Vengeance in Colonial America
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4.08 avg rating — 433 ratings
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| 2060 |
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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters
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4.35 avg rating — 3,656 ratings
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| 2060 |
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We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century
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Ronald Gruner (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 158 ratings
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| 2060 |
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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. 3: The Civil War, 1860-1865
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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| 2064 |
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The Jacksonian Persuasion: Politics and Belief
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3.42 avg rating — 36 ratings
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| 2064 |
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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
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Thomas Norman DeWolf (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 222 ratings
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| 2064 |
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Reminiscences of Francis J. Lippitt: Written for His Family, His Near Relatives and Intimate Friends
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| 2067 |
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
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Adam Makos (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 6,541 ratings
score: 18,
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| 2067 |
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Dragonslayers: Six Presidents and Their War with the Swamp
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| 2067 |
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Illinois in the Fifties: Or a Decade of Development, 1851-1860
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| 2070 |
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11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944
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| 2070 |
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Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle
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| 2070 |
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An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
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| 2070 |
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From Flag to Flag
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| 2074 |
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
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| 2074 |
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Fifty Years' Observations of Men and Events, Civil and Military
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| 2076 |
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Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
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Debbie Nathan (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 285 ratings
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| 2076 |
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Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends
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3.64 avg rating — 154 ratings
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| 2078 |
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A Year in the South: 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History
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| 2078 |
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Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial
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4.16 avg rating — 189 ratings
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| 2080 |
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
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4.38 avg rating — 212 ratings
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| 2080 |
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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4.50 avg rating — 21,272 ratings
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| 2080 |
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The Whole of Their Lives
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| 2083 |
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The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
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3.75 avg rating — 1,622 ratings
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| 2083 |
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The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live
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Todd Tucker (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 546 ratings
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| 2083 |
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The Lords of Creation: The History of America's 1 Percent (Forbidden Bookshelf)
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4.14 avg rating — 330 ratings
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| 2086 |
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
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3.62 avg rating — 1,335 ratings
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| 2087 |
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The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
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Cate Lineberry (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 2,030 ratings
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| 2087 |
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The Fire Next Time
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| 2089 |
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
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3.89 avg rating — 2,771 ratings
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| 2089 |
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Polio: An American Story
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| 2089 |
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The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America 1500-2000
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4.06 avg rating — 147 ratings
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| 2089 |
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
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| 2093 |
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The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
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3.86 avg rating — 4,267 ratings
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| 2093 |
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Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem
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3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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| 2095 |
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The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath
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3.93 avg rating — 178 ratings
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| 2095 |
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The House on Henry Street
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3.72 avg rating — 40 ratings
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So why isn't it up there? I mean, if you think it's the best then it should have at least one vote right?
How is The Rape of Nanking about American history?
Who on earth selected these books? These are supposed to be the BEST of American History Books? Where is Shelby Foote or Bruce Catton? Where is a decent history of the American Revolution? Where is there a history of Political Parties in the US?
Some of these authors are inferior in writing on the subject matter. It is not only important to learn about our history, but to learn about it from leaders in the field of the subject matter. Where is the Viet Nam War?
Some of these authors are inferior in writing on the subject matter. It is not only important to learn about our history, but to learn about it from leaders in the field of the subject matter. Where is the Viet Nam War?
How are books by Mc Cain, Hillary & Bill Clinton insightful into our American History?
It's pretty easy to add books, over at the right side of the page.
A Bright Shining Lie is about Vietnam, as is Dispatches.Shelby Foote is on the list, on page two.
There are plenty of books on the list that are either about the American Revolution, or are biographies of the people involved in it.
And the books were selected by the people who have chosen to vote on this list.
I love this list! I have found some great reads from it. Thanks to everyone who chose the books. My latest read was Indian Givers and it was amazing.
I've read:"John Adams" (Excellent)
and
"Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" (Good).
Currently reading:
"1776". Has been Excellent.
I have yet to read a McCullough I haven't liked.
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" is by far and away the best historical non-fiction book I have ever read....glad to see it's high on this list!!
I love The Killer Angels and you can learn a lot from it, but it's a novel. Isn't this a non-fiction list?
Johnny Tremain is a wonderful novel that brings pre-Revolutionary Boston to life, but it's not a history.
I haven't read them (and it's unlikely that I will), butI don't think Ron Paul's books are history.
Gore Vidal's Lincoln, Burr, etc. are all novels.
Cindy, you're the creator of this list - you want me to remove the non-fiction?
I really had non-fiction in mind, but I admit that I voted for Killer Angels. I really don't want this to turn into a historical romance list, but there's a difference between Gone With the Wind and Killer Angels. What does everyone else think?
Y'all tell me what to delete, and I'll be happy to delete it.
Should The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich be on the list?
Deleted The Man in the High Castle - speculative/alternative history (fiction).
I don't see any reason why Rise and Fall of the Third Reich should be on, no.
Susanna wrote: "I don't see any reason why Rise and Fall of the Third Reich should be on, no."Someone 'muxing this ip' with a Philip Roth story that they think is :Teh:Real:?
Go ahead and delete all the fiction. Rise to Rebellion, The Killer Angels, The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
What about Rise and Fall of the Third Reich?I think I have found and removed the non-fiction.
OK, I shall remove it, then.
Alright, I'll remove it.
Although I'm reluctant to be critical of anyone who undertakes the kind of effort on display here, I can't resist commenting that any list of books on American History that includes Jesse Ventura's book and excludes those of Bernard Bailyn -- not to mention Barrington Moore and David Hackett Fischer -- cannot be taken seriously.
You can, of course, add them. Adding books to lists is easy; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes." You will then have the option of adding books from your own shelves, or of performing a search of GR's database.Also, David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, at least, is on the list, because I voted for it. (It is, in fact, currently #55. Washington's Crossing is #25.)
ETA: Bernard Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution is currently at #107.
Loved Albion's Seed. I read it because of this list. Great book.
I certainly think so.
Removed:Weezer and the Painted Frog (fiction)
Susanna wrote: "You can, of course, add them. Adding books to lists is easy; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes." You will then have the option of adding books from your own shelves, or of per..."My oversight -- it's a great list! I hope it inspires many readers to acquire many of these titles. Participatory democracy works better when more voters know more about the country's history. In 25 years of casual history reading, I have found myself becoming more interested in intellectually challenging history books. I suspect most history 'consumers' have a similar experience. The nation was founded by a group of 'intellectuals'. What would they think about the intellectual quality of contemporary politicians?
I've read a number of books on this list and especially like McCullough's 1776 and John Adams. I also like Founding Brothers a great deal. I downloaded the audio to Shelby Foote's 1st Volume and plan to listen to it as soon as I finish War & Peace, which is not American history or non-fiction, but which is teaching me a great deal about Russian history. While fiction might not be good for this list, another list of works of fiction that are historically accurate might be helpful. Often, I find straight history books to be so packed with details that they bog down and lose any sense of narrative.
Susanna wrote: "How is The Rape of Nanking about American history?"It's about Japan and China. Other than that, it's a great book about American history.
History has never been a strong point for me. I need to select a book relevant to the historical period either from Columbus through the Civil War, or Reconstruction to the end of the Cold War. So I was wondering if anyone could point out a few good books, I might be interested in. THANK YOU.
If you're looking for an easy-to-read but good non-fiction work, I recommend The Perils of Prosperity. It covers 1914-1932.
It's easy to add books to lists; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."
Manhunt is the best book about Lincoln's killer. Went to the Surratt House and the Dr Mudd Farm. Great
Lobstergirl wrote: "Deleted The Man in the High Castle - speculative/alternative history (fiction)."poster book is published to reader.
Hello, Mr./Mrs. ! how are you doing ? i would like reading a book too thus i am a supporter of reading book every day to find another acknowledges about this, actually, all of them are preferred reading them and wanna a writing some story of mine. that story is said about a life of mine surely. i will write some the meaning of story connecting to real life of mine was child, can be made a plan to refer to supporter. thanks you !
Removed a novel and 3 nonfiction books not about America.
Does Man Hunt (#75) belong on here? It appears to be historical fiction. (And aside from this list, the other lists it appears on are all for historical fiction.)
John wrote: "Although I'm reluctant to be critical of anyone who undertakes the kind of effort on display here, I can't resist commenting that any list of books on American History that includes Jesse Ventura's..."John, I'm assuming this list was not made up before for us to vote on, but is instead a list we make with our choices. If one person wants to put Jesse Ventura on his list--or Bill O'Reilly for that matter-let them do so. Such votes will be drowned out by less fringe opinions. Democracy, etc. etc.
Susanna wrote: "Does Man Hunt (#75) belong on here? It appears to be historical fiction. (And aside from this list, the other lists it appears on are all for historical fiction.)"Deleted.
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