Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West
By: Anne F. Hyde
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent …
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1. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears: The Penguin Library of American Indian History series
By: Colin G. Calloway , Theda Perdue , Michael D. Green , Colin Calloway
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appa… read more
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- american history
- history
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- native americans
2. 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
By: Jay Winik
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
**New York Times Bestseller** Jay Winik brings to life in "gripping" detail (The New York Times Boo… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
3. Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
By: Elizabeth A. Fenn
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History Encounters at the Heart of the Worldconcerns the Mand… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- native americans
4. Shadows of the Stone Benders (Anlon Cully Chronicles, #1)
By: K. Patrick Donoghue
3.83
Format: None pages,
For fans of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon novels, a riveting, action-packed thriller. World-renowned s… read more
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5. Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community
By: Colin G. Calloway , Brenda J. Child
3.92
Format: 381 pages,
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6. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
7. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
8. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
By: Troy Senik
4.16
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
9. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
10. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
11. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- native americans
12. The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
By: John Wood Sweet
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its lo… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
13. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
14. Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History)
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.26
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America’s … read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- native americans
15. On Grand Strategy
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
16. American Spirits
By: Russell Banks
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more
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- american
17. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
By: Gloria Dickie
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
18. The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
By: Stephen R. Bown
4.14
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay C… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- canada
19. 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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- american
- history
- race
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- native americans
20. 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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- history
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
21. Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.34
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel… read more
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- american
- history
- nonfiction
22. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
By: Tiya Miles
3.56
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
23. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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- nonfiction
- native american
- indigenous
24. The First Populist: A Life of Andrew Jackson
By: David S. Brown
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A timely, “solidly researched [and] gracefully written” ( The Wall Street Journal ) biography of Pr… read more
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- american history
- american
- history
- nonfiction
25. Cherokee America
By: Margaret Verble
3.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of com… read more
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- westerns
- native americans
- native american
- indigenous
26. The Fifties: An Underground History
By: James R. Gaines
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celeb… read more
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- american history
- american
- history
- nonfiction
27. Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
By: Lauren Redniss
4.18
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache fam… read more
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- history
- native american
- indigenous
28. Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West
By: Anne F. Hyde
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent … read more
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- american history
- american
- history
- race
- canada
- westerns
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- native americans
29. The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
By: Shawn A. Ginwright
4.39
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
For readers of Emergent Strategy and Dare to Lead, an activist's roadmap to long-term social justic… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
30. Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877
By: Ryan Hall
4.21
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people cont… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- native american
- indigenous
31. Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
By: John Sedgwick
3.86
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
“Riveting...Engrossing...Mr. Sedgwick’s subtitle calls the Cherokee story an ‘American Epic,’ and i… read more
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- american
- history
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
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