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American History
Award-recognized works that explore the history of the United States, its people, institutions, politics, and social movements from the colonial era to the present.
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Kathleen DuVal
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
Eric Foner
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Garry Wills
Unworthy Republic: The dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian Territory
Claudio Saunt
William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
Alan Taylor
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Ira Berlin
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Leon F. Litwack
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Adam Higginbotham
Cuba: An American History
Ada Ferrer
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
William Cronon
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848
Daniel Walker Howe
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
Norman Mailer
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Eric Foner
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle Hernández
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald
Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Richard Kluger
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
Bench Ansfield
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
James F. Brooks
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-1968
Taylor Branch
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Nicole Eustace
O Strange New World: American Culture-The Formative Years
Howard Mumford Jones
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America
Allan Brandt
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Greg Grandin
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
David Brion Davis
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832
Alan Taylor
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945
Robert Dallek
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Maya Jasanoff
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815
Richard White
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Nicholas Lemann
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945
David M. Kennedy
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
Melvin Ely
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Sean Wilentz
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Kenneth T. Jackson
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
Elizabeth A. Fenn
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
Ira Katznelson
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863
Edward L. Ayers
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
Thomas G. Andrews
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
Peter Silver
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
David W. Blight
Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South
Dan T. Carter
The Crisis of the Old Order
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Linda Gordon
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
John Wood Sweet
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