American History Now (Critical Perspectives On The P)
By: Eric Foner
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarsh…
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1. Washington: A Life
By: Ron Chernow
4.16
Format: 904 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more
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"Many mickles make a muckle."-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
2. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
By: Erik Larson
4.05
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resi… read more
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"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burl…"-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
3. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
4. The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present
By: Jan de Vries
3.58
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior t… read more
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- history
5. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a… read more
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6. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
By: Christopher R. Browning
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more
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"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
7. 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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8. A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
3.00
Format: None pages,
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more
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9. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
By: David M. Kennedy
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depressi… read more
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10. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek
By: Ari Kelman
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the … read more
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11. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
By: Kate L. Turabian , Joseph M. Williams , Gregory G. Colomb , Wayne C. Booth , University of Chicago Press
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dewey. Bellow. Strauss. Friedman. The University of Chicago has been the home of some of the most i… read more
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12. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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13. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
By: Jan Tomasz Gross
4.25
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the… read more
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14. The Comanche Empire
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fie… read more
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15. American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
By: Alan Taylor
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
Often wishfully understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution builds in this … read more
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16. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
By: John Robert McNeill
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Hardcover
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of t… read more
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17. Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
By: Jean H. Baker
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights They forever changed Ame… read more
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18. 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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19. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
By: Mike Duncan
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes… read more
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20. Lore Olympus: Volume Six (Lore Olympus, #6)
By: Rachel Smythe
4.51
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Witness what the gods do after dark in the sixth volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining o… read more
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21. The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
By: Elaine F. Weiss
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and… read more
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"I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them," is how [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton described their [hers and Susan B. Anthony's] work together."-Elaine F. Weiss, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
"[Upon the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Carrie Chapman] Catt wrote ... to the women voters of the nation: The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guaranty of your liberty…"-Elaine F. Weiss, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
22. Men Under Fire: Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918 (Austrian and Habsburg Studies Book 26)
By: Jiří Hutečka
4.33
Format: 492 pages, Kindle Edition
In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian milit… read more
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23. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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24. American History Now (Critical Perspectives On The P)
By: Eric Foner
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarsh… read more
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25. Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)
By: Sam Wineburg
4.04
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are… read more
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"A history of unalloyed certainties is dangerous because it invites a slide into intellectual torpor. History as truth, issued from the left or the right, abhors shades of gray. It seeks to stamp out …"-Sam Wineburg, Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)
26. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately … read more
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27. Historiography: An Introductory Guide
By: Eileen Cheng
3.52
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians… read more
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28. Historiography: An Introductory Guide
By: Eileen Ka-may Cheng
3.62
Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition
"What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians… read more
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29. A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (Histories of Economic Life)
By: David Todd
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century … read more
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30. Canadian History: Post Confederation
By: John Douglas Belshaw
3.36
Format: 875 pages, ebook
The winner crosses the finish line at a 1915 “sports day” organized by the Vancouver Police Departm… read more
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31. Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
By: John Douglas Belshaw
4.39
Format: 580 pages, ebook
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