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Essays & Cultural Criticism1,081 booksTop record: The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 YearsScience & Discovery745 booksTop record: The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of ScienceLiterature & Writers651 booksTop record: Walter Lippmann and the American CenturyRegional & Local History594 booksTop record: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast IndustryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations538 booksTop record: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American CenturyCrime, Policing & Violence537 booksTop record: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyMemoir & Personal History525 booksTop record: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeWar & Military Strategy482 booksTop record: "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of GenocideTravel, Exploration & Place451 booksTop record: The Gulf: The Making of an American SeaEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution429 booksTop record: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around UsArt, Music & Performance408 booksTop record: de Kooning: An American MasterBlack History & Culture382 booksTop record: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeHuman Rights & International Law346 booksTop record: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From RwandaHousing, Cities & Urban Life343 booksTop record: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityGender & Feminism324 booksTop record: The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed RussiaLabor, Work & Organizing320 booksTop record: There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in AmericaFamily, Childhood & Adoption316 booksTop record: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeDeath, Memory & Commemoration303 booksTop record: Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution,American Civil War296 booksTop record: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamAfrica & the African Diaspora291 booksTop record: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomMedicine, Health & the Body291 booksTop record: Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged HospitalEmpire & Colonialism267 booksTop record: Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest BorderlandsLiterary Biography265 booksTop record: Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915Intellectual History & Ideas262 booksTop record: Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution,Natural History & Animals259 booksTop record: The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of ScienceClass, Poverty & Inequality258 booksTop record: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityWorld War II245 booksTop record: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIClimate, Weather & Disaster236 booksTop record: The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of ScienceOceans, Rivers & Water230 booksTop record: The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of ScienceTechnology, Computing & AI226 booksTop record: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around UsConstitutional History219 booksTop record: George F. Kennan: An American LifeEurope & Russia208 booksTop record: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After CommunismMoney, Markets & Economic Policy204 booksTop record: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the WorldSlavery & Emancipation204 booksTop record: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomIntellectual Biography197 booksTop record: The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American IdealsReligion & Religious Movements196 booksTop record: The Gnostic GospelsIndigenous History192 booksTop record: Native Nations: A Millennium in North AmericaAmerican Politics183 booksTop record: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963Presidency & Executive Power181 booksTop record: The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonFood, Agriculture & Land173 booksTop record: Empire of Cotton: A Global HistoryBiography & Public Lives167 booksTop record: A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812Civil Rights & Racial Justice155 booksTop record: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XEducation & Universities153 booksTop record: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityPresidential Biography148 booksTop record: The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonEnergy, Extraction & Resources146 booksTop record: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical TechnologyMental Health & Psychology145 booksTop record: Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged HospitalLGBTQ History & Life141 booksTop record: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American FamiliesSoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience136 booksTop record: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in VietnamCold War & Nuclear Politics132 booksTop record: "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of GenocideCourts & Trials127 booksTop record: Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New AmericaMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion125 booksTop record: The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol SyndromeAsia & the Pacific123 booksTop record: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIBusiness Biography123 booksTop record: W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919Disease, Epidemics & Drugs108 booksTop record: Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisPublic Health Systems108 booksTop record: Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisDemocracy & Elections102 booksTop record: A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative HistoryMigration & Diaspora101 booksTop record: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands100 booksTop record: A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative HistoryLaw & Legal Change98 booksTop record: Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the BorderlandsIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance97 booksTop record: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American CenturyVietnam War96 booksTop record: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamReconstruction94 booksTop record: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIScientific Biography94 booksTop record: American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early RepublicLatin America & the Caribbean93 booksTop record: Cuba: An American HistoryWorld War I93 booksTop record: A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin RooseveltFamily Biography91 booksTop record: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeMilitary Biography90 booksTop record: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamPrisons & Incarceration70 booksTop record: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyGroup Biography68 booksTop record: Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond LimitsDrugs, Addiction & Treatment66 booksTop record: Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged HospitalFilm, Television & Popular Culture63 booksTop record: Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, SuperstarGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence62 booksTop record: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From RwandaArtistic Biography54 booksTop record: de Kooning: An American MasterGrief, Trauma & Recovery54 booksTop record: H Is for HawkInfrastructure, Engineering & Built Environment49 booksTop record: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAIDisability & Difference48 booksTop record: White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812Middle East & North Africa46 booksTop record: Maoism: A Global HistoryReproductive Rights & Family Policy44 booksTop record: We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in AmericaSocial Movements & Activism44 booksTop record: Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret SangerArchives, Museums & Historical Method40 booksTop record: The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal RemainsHolocaust37 booksTop record: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to HitlerReligious Biography36 booksTop record: Jennie Lee: A LifeActivist Biography33 booksTop record: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomNationalism & Authoritarianism32 booksTop record: The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed RussiaSettler Colonialism31 booksTop record: Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early AmericaEvangelicalism & Christian Nationalism29 booksTop record: The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape AmericaPolitical Biography24 booksTop record: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American CenturySports Biography19 booksTop record: Somewhere Towards the EndSports & Athletes18 booksTop record: Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi