The Boston Massacre: A Family History
By: Serena R. Zabin
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
By: Russell Shorto
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polygl… read more
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"If what made America great was its ingenious openness to different cultures, then the small triangle of land at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is the New World birthplace of that idea, the spot…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
"The first Manhattanites didn't arrive with lofty ideals. They came--whether as farmer, tanner, prostitute, wheelwright, barmaid, brewer, or trader--because there was a hope for a better life. There w…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
"Henry Hudson was in his forties when he stepped into the light of history, a seasoned mariner, a man with a strong and resourceful wife and three sons, a man born and raised not only to the sea but t…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
"Many people--whether they live in the heartland or on Fifth Avenue--like to think of New York City as so wild and extreme in its cultural fusion that it's an anomaly in the United States, almost a fo…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
2. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more
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- audiobook
3. Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.50
Format: 218 pages, ebook
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning Americ… read more
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4. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
By: Elizabeth A. Fenn
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its … read more
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5. American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution
By: Harlow Giles Unger
3.97
Format: 250 pages,
The Boston Tea Party provoked a reign of terror in the colonies, the turmoil stripping tens of thou… read more
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- audiobook
6. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author ofIn the Heart of the Seaand Mayflower, brings his prod… read more
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7. The Coma
By: Alex Garland
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
After being attacked on the Underground, Carl awakens from a coma to a life that seems strange and … read more
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8. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
By: Dan Koeppel
4.33
Format: None pages,
A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the w… read more
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9. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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10. 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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11. The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
At the turn of the twentieth century, American women began to reject Victorian propriety in favor o… read more
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- audiobook
12. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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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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- audiobook
14. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
15. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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16. Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero
By: Christian Di Spigna
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A rich and illuminating biography of America's forgotten Founding Father, the patriot physician and… read more
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17. 1774: The Long Year of Revolution
By: Mary Beth Norton
3.74
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 Pres… read more
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18. The Boston Massacre: A Family History
By: Serena R. Zabin
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Historical accuracy and human understanding require coming down from the high ground and seeing pe… read more
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- american revolutionary war
- nonfiction
- 18th century
- audiobook
19. The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible
By: Luke Mogelson
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accele… read more
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20. Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
By: Margalit Fox
3.70
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detec… read more
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"At bottom, Conan Doyle for the Defense is a story about class identification: those snap judgments, themselves dark diagnostic instruments, that in every age are wielded to separate 'us' from 'them."-Margalit Fox, Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
"In the. Middle Ages and afterwards, Jews, like members of other marginalized groups, were denied the legal protections that England afforded the archetypal citizen: the free white native-born law-abi…"-Margalit Fox, Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
"By the late nineteenth century, as British cities teemed with new inhabitants, crime rates rose and more established residents came to be afflicted with a new, urban, and distinctly modern anxiety. F…"-Margalit Fox, Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
21. 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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