2026 Reading Challenge
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Aboriginal History


Aboriginal History Books

The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia
Dark Emu
Talking to My Country
Forgotten War
Australia Day
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
Because a white man'll never do it
My Place (An Australian Classic)
From Homeland to New Land: A History of the Mahican Indians, 1600-1830 (The Iroquoians and Their World)
Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century
The Fur Trader: From Oslo to Oxford House
The Falcon (Penguin Classics)
Lake Superior to Rainy Lake: Three Centuries of Fur Trade History
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Lists

John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,124 books — 2,495 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,707 books — 3,739 voters

Mayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickAlbion's Seed by David Hackett FischerAmerica at 1750 by Richard HofstadterAmerican Jezebel by Eve LaPlanteThe Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
Nonfiction about Early America
186 books — 43 voters
The Ride by Kostya KennedyThe Men Who Lost America by Andrew O'ShaughnessyJohn Paul Jones by Evan ThomasWashington's General by Terry GolwayRough Crossings by Simon Schama
Those Who Fought: The American Revolution (nonfiction)
146 books — 13 voters

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonLincoln by David Herbert DonaldGrant by Ron ChernowAmerican Ulysses by Ronald C. White Jr.Titan by Ron Chernow
Best 19th Century American (U.S.) History - 3.7 Stars and Up
453 books — 19 voters
A Freewheelin' Time by Suze RotoloChaos by Tom O'NeillKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Last Headbangers by Kevin CookLittle Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Best 20th Century American (U.S.) History - 3.7 Stars and Up
625 books — 19 voters

Quotes Tagged “Aboriginal History”

“ The Nyungar people, and indeed the entire Aboriginal population, grew to realise what the arrival of the European settlers meant for them: it was the destruction of their traditional society and the dispossession of their lands. ”
― Doris Pilkington, Rabbit-Proof Fence
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“ The "boob" was a place of detention once described as a small, detached concrete room with a sandy floor, with only a gleam of light and little ventilation coming through a narrow, barred opening in the north wall. Every inmate of the settlement dreaded being incarcerated in this place. Some children were forced to spend up to fourteen days in that horrible place. ...more ”
― Doris Pilkington, Rabbit-Proof Fence
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