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American History Books
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1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1055 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 244,704 ratings — published 2005
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 848 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 374,459 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 733 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 196,293 ratings — published 2004
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 720 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 261,330 ratings — published 1980
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 688 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 197,355 ratings — published 2005
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 654 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 744,796 ratings — published 2003
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 550 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,322 ratings — published 1970
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 540 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 431,272 ratings — published 2017
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 481 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,230 ratings — published 2010
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 480 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 80,706 ratings — published 2010
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 467 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,105 ratings — published 2000
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 454 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 81,927 ratings — published 2011
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 452 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 33,382 ratings — published 1988
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,676 ratings — published 2005
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
by (shelved 435 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 45,541 ratings — published 2006
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 429 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,766 ratings — published 1996
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 381 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,600 ratings — published 2005
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 379 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 148,233 ratings — published 2003
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 90,632 ratings — published 1992
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 993,363 ratings — published 2010
Empire of the Summer Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 65,110 ratings — published 2010
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 338 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,251 ratings — published 2008
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 328 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 42,547 ratings — published 2017
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,644 ratings — published 1845
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 326 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 42,562 ratings — published 2012
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 73,049 ratings — published 1995
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 298 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,673 ratings — published 1788
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 284 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,653 ratings — published 2007
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 277 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,655 ratings — published 1979
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 276 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 97,454 ratings — published 2015
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 116,788 ratings — published 2000
His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback)
by (shelved 263 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,009 ratings — published 2004
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,770 ratings — published 2013
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 26,988 ratings — published 2019
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 54,207 ratings — published 2013
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,719 ratings — published 1835
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 19,693 ratings — published 2019
Theodore Rex (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,836 ratings — published 2001
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 90,473 ratings — published 1791
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 28,908 ratings — published 1997
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 355,217 ratings — published 2013
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 24,721 ratings — published 2016
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 222 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,462 ratings — published 2020
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,311 ratings — published 2019
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,451 ratings — published 2009
Common Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,770 ratings — published 1776
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States)
by (shelved 211 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,980 ratings — published 1982
These Truths: A History of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,668 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,620 ratings — published 2010
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,804 ratings — published 1968
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
― Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
― Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.”
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hist-usa, history-american, history-us, united-states-history, and us-history
