Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
By: Michael John Witgen
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homelan…
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1. The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)
By: Lissa K. Wadewitz
3.60
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2014 Albert Corey Prize from the American Historical Association Winner of the 2013 H… read more
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2. Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Brett Rushforth
4.05
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated … read more
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3. Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
By: Anne F. Hyde
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States… read more
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4. Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
By: Coll Thrush
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography In traditional scholarship, Na… read more
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5. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more
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6. 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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7. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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8. 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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9. Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
By: Allan Greer
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
On October 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Saint Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native North … read more
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10. Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
By: Michael McDonnell
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the nat… read more
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11. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
By: Daniel K. Richter
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening ac… read more
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12. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
By: Joseph J. Ellis
2.80
Format: None pages,
Informs our understanding of American politics--then and now--and gives us a new perspective on the… read more
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13. Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
By: Ned Blackhawk
3.88
Format: None pages,
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14. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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15. Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Susan Sleeper-Smith
4.36
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women create… read more
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16. 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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17. The Immortal King Rao
By: Vauhini Vara
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmer… read more
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18. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
4.50
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more
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"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
19. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
20. 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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21. Getting Lost
By: Annie Ernaux
3.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The diary of one of France’s most important, award-… read more
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"I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death."-Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost
22. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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23. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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24. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
By: Elizabeth N. Ellis
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N. Ellis (Peoria) tells the stories of the many smal… read more
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25. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
By: Barbara McQuade
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more
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26. The Science of Storytelling
By: Will Storr
4.06
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more
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"The gift of story is wisdom"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
27. Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
By: N. Scott Momaday
4.23
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
"Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illu… read more
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28. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
By: Michael John Witgen
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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29. The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River (Critical Studies in Native History, 20)
By: Susan M. Hill
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Ha… read more
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30. Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains
By: Theodore Binnema
3.87
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
In Common and Contested Ground, Theodore Binnema provides a sweeping and innovative interpretation … read more
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31. Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867-1945
By: Andrea Geiger
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Converging Empires examines the role the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of ra… read more
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