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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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The Princess Spy
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Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters”
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
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The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City
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The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
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Titanic: Why She Collided, Why She Sank, Why She Should Never Have Sailed
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Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
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3.76 avg rating — 3,532 ratings
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The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
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Lincoln In Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President
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On Our Doorstep: When Australia Faced the Threat of Invasion by the Japanese
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
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Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
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The Library: A Fragile History
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The Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist
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Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad
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You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers
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