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1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 244,705 ratings — published 2005
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 261,331 ratings — published 1980
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 374,463 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 196,296 ratings — published 2004
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 197,356 ratings — published 2005
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,325 ratings — published 1970
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,233 ratings — published 2010
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 144 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,105 ratings — published 2000
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 431,281 ratings — published 2017
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 744,803 ratings — published 2003
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 81,928 ratings — published 2011
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 80,706 ratings — published 2010
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 33,383 ratings — published 1988
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,767 ratings — published 1996
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
by (shelved 109 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 45,541 ratings — published 2006
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 90,634 ratings — published 1992
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 19,693 ratings — published 2019
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 42,547 ratings — published 2017
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 148,238 ratings — published 2003
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 73,050 ratings — published 1995
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,653 ratings — published 2007
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,677 ratings — published 2005
These Truths: A History of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,668 ratings — published 2018
Empire of the Summer Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 65,110 ratings — published 2010
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 85 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,601 ratings — published 2005
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,673 ratings — published 1788
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,656 ratings — published 1979
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,644 ratings — published 1845
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,626 ratings — published 2017
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,155 ratings — published 1988
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,252 ratings — published 2008
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,770 ratings — published 2013
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,451 ratings — published 2009
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 76 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 19,688 ratings — published 2014
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 42,562 ratings — published 2012
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 24,722 ratings — published 2016
His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,010 ratings — published 2004
Theodore Rex (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,836 ratings — published 2001
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,465 ratings — published 2020
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States)
by (shelved 67 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,980 ratings — published 1982
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,364 ratings — published 2005
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,619 ratings — published 2010
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,719 ratings — published 1835
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 993,370 ratings — published 2010
All the President’s Men (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 57,207 ratings — published 1974
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 46,510 ratings — published 1994
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,014 ratings — published 2016
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,425 ratings — published 2011
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 36,471 ratings — published 2006
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 286,819 ratings — published 1965
“Jefferson knew that slavery degraded the humanity of those who perpetuated its existence because it necessitated the subjugation of another human being; at the same time, he believed that Black people were an inferior class. This is where Jefferson's logic falls apart, historian Winthrop D. Jordan wrote in 1968. If Jefferson truly believed that Black people were inferior, then he must have "suspected that the Creator might have in fact created men unequal; and he could not say this without giving his assertion exactly the same logical force as his famous statement to the contrary.”
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
“There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.”
― Notes on the State of Virgina
― Notes on the State of Virgina
