The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
By: Karl Jacoby
3.78
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award "An American 'Odyssey…
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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
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2. The Age of Reform
By: Richard Hofstadter
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent histo… read more
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- history
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"Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die."-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
"Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arra…"-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
"What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in politics, they produced only the genial reforms of Progressivism; and the man…"-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
3. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
By: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
The role of large-scale business enterprise--big business and its managers--during the formative ye… read more
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- history
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4. Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
By: Penny M. Von Eschen
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an… read more
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- history
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5. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
By: Mark Atwood Lawrence
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels … read more
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- history
6. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.80
Format: None pages,
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7. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
By: None
4.21
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat … read more
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- american history
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8. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith
4.25
Format: None pages,
From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European c… read more
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9. 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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10. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
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11. 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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12. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
By: Ira Katznelson
3.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itselffinally examines this pivotal … read more
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13. The Golden Gate
By: Amy Chua
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont… read more
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14. 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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- history
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- audiobook
15. Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
By: Stephen R. Platt
4.32
Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of … read more
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- 19th century
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
16. 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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- history
- nonfiction
17. Berserk Deluxe Edition, Volume 5
By: Kentaro Miura
4.76
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
Kentaro Miura's epic adult fantasy/horror series is an international sensation and is now featured … read more
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18. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
By: Walter Johnson
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told thr… read more
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- american
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"One of the things about people who have little left to lose, of course, is that they have everything to gain. On August 9, 2014, the disinherited of St. Louis rose again to take control of their hist…"-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
"Viewed from St. Louis, the history of capitalism in the United States seems to have as much to do with eviction and extraction as with exploitation and production. History in St. Louis unfolded at th…"-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
19. American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
By: Alan Taylor
4.22
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends th… read more
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- 19th century
- nonfiction
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20. The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Joshua L. Reid
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The first full-scale history of the Makah people of the Pacific Northwest, whose culture and identi… read more
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- history
21. The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
By: Karl Jacoby
3.78
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award "An American 'Odyssey… read more
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- 19th century
- grad school
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
22. The Intimacies of Four Continents
By: Lisa Lowe
4.34
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Afric… read more
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23. Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
By: Stacey L. Smith
3.82
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusivel… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War
By: Heather Cox Richardson
3.93
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. I… read more
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25. American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
By: Alan Taylor
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the cont… read more
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26. Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)
By: Julian Lim
4.26
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the … read more
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27. I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
By: Alaina E. Roberts
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a… read more
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"Though Oklahoma is known in African American history circles for its all-Black spaces, like the famed ‘Black Wall Street’ of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, the first Black inhabitants of Indian Territor…"-Alaina E. Roberts, I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
"Apart from Cherokee freedpeople, Cherokee citizens also spoke out against the present of African Americans from the United States. In 1894, the editor of the Cherokee Advocate incited his fellow trib…"-Alaina E. Roberts, I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
28. Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands
By: Katherine Benton-Cohen
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"Are you an American, or are you not?" This was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise Coun… read more
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29. Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo
By: Jennifer Koshatka Seman
3.92
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
2022 Americo Paredes Award, Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College Santa Ter… read more
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30. Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West
By: Susan Lee Johnson
4.36
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling ta… read more
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31. Double Victory: 5.5
By: Ronald Takaki
3.95
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
A powerful multicultural history of Americans in World War II, from the acclaimed author of A Diff… read more
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