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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,090 ratings — published 2005
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.09 — 273,512 ratings — published 1980
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,733 ratings — published 2014
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,174 ratings — published 2019
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,633 ratings — published 1971
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,782,908 ratings — published 2018
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.25 — 71,250 ratings — published 2010
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,146,440 ratings — published 1967
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,551,112 ratings — published 1985
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.90 — 115,345 ratings — published 2009
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,126,730 ratings — published 1925
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,994 ratings — published 2022
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,804,715 ratings — published 2024
Wij slaven van Suriname (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,241 ratings — published 1934
A Long Petal of the Sea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.06 — 119,039 ratings — published 2019
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,959 ratings — published 1938
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,569 ratings — published 2011
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.94 — 561,604 ratings — published 1985
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,281 ratings — published 2010
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,722 ratings — published 2016
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.06 — 458,598 ratings — published 2016
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,654 ratings — published 1988
The Maya (Ancient Peoples & Places)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,616 ratings — published 1966
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 105,986 ratings — published 1970
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,156 ratings — published 2003
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.41 — 35,016 ratings — published 1988
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,312 ratings — published 2000
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,106,182 ratings — published 1960
Hawaii (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.22 — 82,541 ratings — published 1959
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.97 — 718,080 ratings — published 1989
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.96 — 66,447 ratings — published 2025
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.93 — 64,899 ratings — published 2017
Cuba: An American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,788 ratings — published 2021
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.45 — 26,120 ratings — published 2019
The Sense of Power: Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867-1914, Second Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published 1970
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.41 — 596,102 ratings — published 2024
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,263,744 ratings — published 2007
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,258,011 ratings — published 2008
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,421,580 ratings — published 2006
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,863,466 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,320,920 ratings — published 2009
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,945 ratings — published 2022
North Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.09 — 130,645 ratings — published 2023
La ciudad y los perros (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,153 ratings — published 1962
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.14 — 469,053 ratings — published 2017
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,872 ratings — published 2019
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,158,272 ratings — published 2023
When We Cease to Understand the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.09 — 70,499 ratings — published 2020
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 4.26 — 600,703 ratings — published 1988
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-americas)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,739,887 ratings — published 1988
“*Providence*
The United States
Has a specific and certain purpose
On Earth.
Each American
Has a specific and certain purpose
In America.
God favors our endeavors.
And we favor God.
This,
my brother, George Washington
Referred to as providence.”
― The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Poems Honoring Our American Values
The United States
Has a specific and certain purpose
On Earth.
Each American
Has a specific and certain purpose
In America.
God favors our endeavors.
And we favor God.
This,
my brother, George Washington
Referred to as providence.”
― The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Poems Honoring Our American Values
“We here goe to cause preach the Gospel where it was never heard, and not to subdue but to civilize the Savages, for their ruine could give us neither glory nor benefit, since in place of fame it would breed infamie, and would defraud us of many able bodies, that hereafter (besides the Christian dutie in saving their soules) by themselves or by their Posteritie may serve to many good uses, when by our meanes they shall learn lawful Trades, and industries.”
― An Encouragement to Colonies
― An Encouragement to Colonies
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