18 Top history books like The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson

Cover of The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson

The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

By: Megan Kate Nelson

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West dur…

If you liked the history plot in The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 by Gary D. Joiner, O. Edward Cunningham, Timothy B. Smith

1. Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862

By: Gary D. Joiner , O. Edward Cunningham , Timothy B. Smith

4.06

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

The bloody and decisive two-day battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862) changed the entire course of the… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War by James M. McPherson

2. This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

By: James M. McPherson

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom and the New York Times bestsellers C… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction

3. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

By: Hampton Sides

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • westerns
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • native americans
Cover of "The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour. by Eric J. Wittenberg

4. "The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour.

By: Eric J. Wittenberg

5.00

Format: None pages,

Although many books on Gettysburg have addressed the role played by Brig. Gen. John Buford and his … read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

5. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

By: Drew Gilpin Faust

3.93

Format: 316 pages,

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction

6. The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

By: Paul Andrew Hutton

1.80

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon, a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt… read more

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7. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Area 51 is the most famous military installation in the world--& it doesn't exist. Located 75 miles… read more

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8. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

By: James M. McPherson

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Why did the conventional wisdom - that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as wa… read more

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Cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

9. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Cover of Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace

10. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

By: Nicole Eustace

3.61

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the dist… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • native american
Cover of Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham

11. Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

By: Jon Meacham

4.12

Format: 794 pages, Kindle Edition

From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping ye… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Where Goldwater-ites saw the world in black and white, Rockefeller noted shades of gray."

-Jon Meacham, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Cover of The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

12. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

4.18

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • native american
  • nonfiction
  • native americans
Cover of Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice by Tom Clavin

13. Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice

By: Tom Clavin

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story… read more

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  • westerns
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson

14. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

By: Rick Atkinson

4.43

Format: 776 pages, Hardcover

In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson

15. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

By: Megan Kate Nelson

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West dur… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • westerns
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • american civil war
  • native american
  • nonfiction
  • native americans
Cover of The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower

16. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe

By: Mark Mazower

4.23

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III by Andrew Roberts

17. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III

By: Andrew Roberts

4.25

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson

18. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

19. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

By: Eric Foner

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson

20. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great by Rachel Kousser

21. Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great

By: Rachel Kousser

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to c… read more

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  • military fiction
  • history

18 Best nonfiction books like The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson

Transform Your Habits

Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862

Gary D. Joiner , O. Edward Cunningham , Timothy B. Smith

4.06

Transform Your Habits

This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

James M. McPherson

3.20

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Hampton Sides

3.92

Transform Your Habits

"The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour.

Eric J. Wittenberg

5.00

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20 must-read audiobook books like The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

Transform Your Habits

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

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