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I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
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Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
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4.11 avg rating — 1,159 ratings
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The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
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3.95 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
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4.16 avg rating — 4,234 ratings
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
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4.22 avg rating — 6,267 ratings
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
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4.23 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
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4.16 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
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A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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4.04 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
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4.17 avg rating — 797 ratings
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War
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3.94 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
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3.99 avg rating — 741 ratings
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The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
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4.06 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
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4.34 avg rating — 561 ratings
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
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4.08 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction
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4.14 avg rating — 551 ratings
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Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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3.97 avg rating — 212 ratings
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White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction
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4.07 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Biography
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3.81 avg rating — 378 ratings
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These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
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4.08 avg rating — 840 ratings
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White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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3.98 avg rating — 551 ratings
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Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
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3.86 avg rating — 1,204 ratings
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The Life of Emily Dickinson
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4.28 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
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4.06 avg rating — 1,633 ratings
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Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet
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4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction
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4.35 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season
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3.45 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey
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3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives At Sea, 1820-1920
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3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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From New Bedford to Siberia: A Yankee whaleman in the frozen north
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress: New Bedford, Chicago and the Twilight of an Industry
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Whaling Captains of Color: America's First Meritocracy
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3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings
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New Orleans after the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
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4.12 avg rating — 2,046 ratings
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A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau
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3.70 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau
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3.69 avg rating — 556 ratings
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An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
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3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
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3.86 avg rating — 363 ratings
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The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails
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3.95 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
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3.62 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Restaurant Republic: The Rise of Public Dining in Boston (A Quadrant Book)
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900
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4.03 avg rating — 351 ratings
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More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
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4.05 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the Fire
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4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Liquid Capital: Making the Chicago Waterfront
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870
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4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Lincoln's Spymaster: Allan Pinkerton, America's First Private Eye
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3.79 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 200,948 ratings
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
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4.17 avg rating — 34,959 ratings
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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness – The Inner Life and Leadership of Abraham Lincoln
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3.92 avg rating — 6,697 ratings
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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4.16 avg rating — 8,613 ratings
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Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse
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3.86 avg rating — 3,924 ratings
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
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4.09 avg rating — 5,979 ratings
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
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4.18 avg rating — 6,607 ratings
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The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage
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4.04 avg rating — 948 ratings
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Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House
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3.70 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Tad Lincoln's Father
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4.20 avg rating — 60 ratings
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A Friend of Mr. Lincoln
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3.79 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
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3.85 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
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4.01 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
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4.05 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
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3.75 avg rating — 239 ratings
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The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
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4.17 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff
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3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
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4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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At the Hearth of the Crossed Races: A French-Indian Community in Nineteenth-Century Oregon, 1812-1859 (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age
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4.25 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Dangerous Subjects: James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon
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3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies)
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4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
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4.22 avg rating — 1,915 ratings
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Columns of Vengeance: Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864
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4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
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4.23 avg rating — 6,686 ratings
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Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924
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4.04 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City
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3.83 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist
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Divided Sovereignties: Race, Nationhood, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America
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Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang
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3.98 avg rating — 871 ratings
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The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
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4.10 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
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3.88 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
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3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Invading Mexico: America's Continental Dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848
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3.86 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
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4.15 avg rating — 4,382 ratings
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American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
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3.78 avg rating — 788 ratings
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Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World through Ellis Island - In Their Own Words
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3.78 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Ellis Island: A People’s History
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4.02 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
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3.77 avg rating — 365 ratings
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
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3.73 avg rating — 1,241 ratings
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The Children's Blizzard
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3.89 avg rating — 13,230 ratings
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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
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3.81 avg rating — 629 ratings
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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4.26 avg rating — 18,728 ratings
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A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
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3.77 avg rating — 486 ratings
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Gotham at War: New York City, 1860-1865 (The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era)
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Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
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3.96 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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The Bowery: The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street
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3.81 avg rating — 405 ratings
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