20 Top history books like Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) by Lisa Brooks

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Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

By: Lisa Brooks

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America…

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1. Indians in Unexpected Places

By: Philip J. Deloria

3.88

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked up within powerful stere… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • native american history
Cover of Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts by Daniel K. Richter

2. Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts

By: Daniel K. Richter

3.83

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and cre… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • native american history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by Juliana Barr

3. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

By: Juliana Barr

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • native american history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallBear

4. Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science

By: Kim TallBear

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online for their ance… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon, John Putnam Demos, Tere LoPrete

5. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete

3.66

Format: 296 pages,

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson

6. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

By: Mary Rowlandson

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In February 1676, during King Philip's War, the frontier village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American Indian History) by Richard White, Frederick E. Hoxie, Neal Salisbury

7. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American Indian History)

By: Richard White , Frederick E. Hoxie , Neal Salisbury

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

A mutually comprehensible world was established by Europeans and Indians in 1650 in the region arou… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • native american history
Cover of The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

8. The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine

4.33

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more

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9. 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
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

10. Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances, follow… read more

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Cover of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

11. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • native americans
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in oppos…"

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

12. The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast

By: None

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Andrew Lipman's eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a "fr… read more

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13. American Colonies: The Settling of North America

By: Alan Taylor

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

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14. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

By: Jill Lepore

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, t… read more

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15. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

By: Andrés Reséndez

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A landmark history -- the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across … read more

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16. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

By: None

3.57

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edm… read more

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17. King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676

By: None

4.07

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Sometimes described as "America's deadliest war," King Philip's War proved a critical turning point… read more

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18. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

By: None

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United Sta… read more

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19. The End of Drum-Time

By: Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more

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  • historical
Cover of Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt

20. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

By: Claudio Saunt

4.23

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • native american history
  • nonfiction
  • native americans
Cover of Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence by Robert G. Parkinson

21. Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence

By: Robert G. Parkinson

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the m… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation by Thavolia Glymph

22. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

By: Thavolia Glymph

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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23. On Juneteenth

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

4.18

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

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24. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

By: Lisa Brooks

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • 17th century
  • historical
  • war
  • native american
  • native american history
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • native americans
Cover of The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappé

25. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

By: Ilan Pappé

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • indigenous
Cover of The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier by April  White

26. The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

By: April White

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth… read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom by Tiya Miles

27. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

By: Tiya Miles

4.17

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • native american
  • native american history
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
Cover of Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan

28. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

By: Jennifer L. Morgan

4.37

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer

29. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

By: David Treuer

4.23

Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A sweeping history—and counter-narr… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
Cover of Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies) by Rosalyn R. LaPier

30. Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies)

By: Rosalyn R. LaPier

4.41

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2018 John C. Ewers Book Award  Winner of the 2018 Donald Fixico Book Award Rosalyn R… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
Cover of Heathen: Religion and Race in American History by Kathryn Gin Lum

31. Heathen: Religion and Race in American History

By: Kathryn Gin Lum

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

17 Best american history books like Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) by Lisa Brooks

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Indians in Unexpected Places

Philip J. Deloria

3.88

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Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts

Daniel K. Richter

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

Juliana Barr

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete

3.66

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Algernon Blackwood

3.46

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Horace Walpole

3.18

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Mark Twain

3.75

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