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Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
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Polio: An American Story
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Washington's Crossing
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
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The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
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William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
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The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
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The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876
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Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
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3.96 avg rating — 180 ratings
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
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4.05 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams; Louis D. Brandeis; James M. Landis; Alfred E. Kahn
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The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
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American Education, The National Experience, 1783-1876
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
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The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
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The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
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The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
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