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…
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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more
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2. A Year in the South: 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History
By: Stephen V. Ash
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A slave determined to gain freedom, a widow battling poverty and despair, a man of God grappling wi… read more
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- american history
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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. 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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- politics
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5. Black Boy
By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou… read more
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6. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By: William Cronon
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of… read more
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7. 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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8. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
By: Matthew Frye Jacobson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago. In Barbarian Vir… read more
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9. The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
By: Manisha Sinha
4.00
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by rac… read more
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10. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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11. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
By: Eric Foner
3.91
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's--and the nation's--transformation through the cruci… read more
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12. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
By: Edward E. Baptist
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more
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13. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more
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14. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
By: Eric Foner
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Menhas been recognized as … read more
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15. 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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16. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By: Steve Inskeep
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more
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- history
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- civil war
- nonfiction
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
17. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
18. Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
By: Blair L.M. Kelley
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in Ameri… read more
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19. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
By: Joanne B. Freeman
4.09
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In The Field of Blood, the historian Joanne B. Freeman offers a new and dramatically rendered portr… read more
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20. What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
By: Michael Kazin
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of Kirkus Reviews ' ten best US history books of 2… read more
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21. 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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22. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender & American Culture)
By: Hannah Rosen
4.12
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity… read more
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- race
- history
- american civil war
- nonfiction
23. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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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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- american civil war
- research
- read for school
- nonfiction
25. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History)
By: Martha S. Jones
4.05
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizen… read more
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26. 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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27. In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900 (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
By: Omar H. Ali
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movement--distinct … read more
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28. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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29. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
By: Brenda Wineapple
4.40
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent history of the 1925 Scopes trial and how the teaching of evolution in public schools … read more
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30. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
By: Kellie Carter Jackson
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to whit… read more
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31. Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age
By: Noam Maggor
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconce… read more
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