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1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 245,354 ratings — published 2005
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 262,170 ratings — published 1980
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 375,128 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 197,093 ratings — published 2004
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 197,888 ratings — published 2005
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,698 ratings — published 1970
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,786 ratings — published 2010
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 434,127 ratings — published 2017
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 144 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,194 ratings — published 2000
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 747,354 ratings — published 2003
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 82,242 ratings — published 2011
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 33,490 ratings — published 1988
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 81,181 ratings — published 2010
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,960 ratings — published 1996
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
by (shelved 109 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 45,654 ratings — published 2006
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 90,823 ratings — published 1992
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 20,054 ratings — published 2019
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 42,801 ratings — published 2017
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 148,688 ratings — published 2003
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 73,257 ratings — published 1995
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,677 ratings — published 2007
Empire of the Summer Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 65,512 ratings — published 2010
These Truths: A History of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,785 ratings — published 2018
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,967 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 85 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,848 ratings — published 2005
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,950 ratings — published 1979
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,759 ratings — published 1788
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,094 ratings — published 1845
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,906 ratings — published 2017
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,377 ratings — published 2008
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,817 ratings — published 2013
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,175 ratings — published 1988
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,462 ratings — published 2009
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 77 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 19,829 ratings — published 2014
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 42,678 ratings — published 2012
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 24,783 ratings — published 2016
His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,056 ratings — published 2004
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States)
by (shelved 68 times as us-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,992 ratings — published 1982
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,229 ratings — published 2020
Theodore Rex (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,906 ratings — published 2001
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,733 ratings — published 2005
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,784 ratings — published 1835
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,952 ratings — published 2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 995,435 ratings — published 2010
All the President’s Men (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 57,382 ratings — published 1974
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 46,560 ratings — published 1994
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,114 ratings — published 2016
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 36,706 ratings — published 2006
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,724 ratings — published 1965
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as us-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,492 ratings — published 2011
“...Mexicans threw a wrench in the racial dynamics of America, and in turn, our place in the United States has been precarious ever since, because we became citizens at a time when only white people could become citizens, even though most of us were not white.
...The United States wasn't happy about giving citizenship to Mexicans. After all, Mexicans were viewed as racially inferior, primitive creatures who were ignorant and knew nothing of laws. New York Times articles from the 1870s and 1880s not how the 'Lazy Mexicans' were 'retarding progress.' We were described as 'the personification of tramphood' on the front page of the Times. Another racist piece stated, 'Greasers as citizens. What Sort of State New Mexico Would Make.' Our 'origin and character,' our 'hatred of Americans,' and our 'dense ignorance' made us 'totally unfit for American citizenship.' We were an undesirable compromise for manifesting a white destiny in the West.”
― You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
...The United States wasn't happy about giving citizenship to Mexicans. After all, Mexicans were viewed as racially inferior, primitive creatures who were ignorant and knew nothing of laws. New York Times articles from the 1870s and 1880s not how the 'Lazy Mexicans' were 'retarding progress.' We were described as 'the personification of tramphood' on the front page of the Times. Another racist piece stated, 'Greasers as citizens. What Sort of State New Mexico Would Make.' Our 'origin and character,' our 'hatred of Americans,' and our 'dense ignorance' made us 'totally unfit for American citizenship.' We were an undesirable compromise for manifesting a white destiny in the West.”
― You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
“I wanted to devour this woman's dignity. Congratulations for what exactly? For having a family who made it through genocide? For being part of the slim population of surviving Native Americans post-colonization? An anger simmered in my throat, begging to be let loose on this stupid woman who was there to simply enjoy her vacation. How dare she remain blissfully unaware of the modern existence of Native Americans when all she had seen were movies making us look like history? As mad as I was, I knew it wasn't her fault and I couldn't muster up the energy to boil my anger into a response.”
― Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
― Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
