Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
By: Chad L. Williams
4.39
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world…
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1. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic
By: Joanne B. Freeman
4.04
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
A major reassessment of American political culture in the days of Jefferson, Hamilton, and Burr … read more
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- history
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2. Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History
By: Bruce Cumings
3.84
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
"Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New Yo… read more
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3. Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
By: Andrew Zimmerman
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German … read more
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4. Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier
By: Lewis L. Gould , Barbara A. Perry
3.86
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
In a mere one thousand days, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy created an entrancing public persona that h… read more
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5. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
By: Edward J. Larson
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The 1925 Scopes Trial marked a watershed in our national relationship between science and religion … read more
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6. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
By: Donald Worster
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disast… read more
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7. The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America
By: Michael S. Neiberg
3.68
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
America's entry into World War One in April 1917 marked the end of one era in the nation's history … read more
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- world war i
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8. Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America
By: Jennifer D. Keene
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Hardcover
How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectiv… read more
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9. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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10. A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War
By: Fred Anderson
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A People's Armydocuments the many distinctions between British regulars and Massachusetts provincia… read more
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11. 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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12. Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
By: Catherine Merridale
4.12
Format: 206 pages,
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13. The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The War to End All Warsis considered by many to be the best single account of America's participati… read more
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14. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
By: Alan Brinkley
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its … read more
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15. The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War
By: Brian McAllister Linn
3.48
Format: None pages,
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16. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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17. A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam
By: Lewis Sorley
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 off… read more
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18. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
By: Kristin L. Hoganson
4.01
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new underst… read more
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19. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
By: Jessica Marie Johnson
4.27
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more
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20. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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21. 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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22. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
By: Beth Lew-Williams
4.28
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miner… read more
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23. Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
By: Chad L. Williams
4.39
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world… read more
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- world war i
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24. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
By: Christopher Capozzola
3.91
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Ame… read more
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25. The Presidency of John F. Kennedy
By: James N. Giglio
3.97
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
The presidency of John F. Kennedy continues to fascinate, even as it also continues to inspire heat… read more
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26. America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force
By: Beth L. Bailey
3.94
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 1973, not long after the last American combat troops returned from Vietnam, President Nixon fulf… read more
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27. Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History
By: William Stueck
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a definin… read more
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28. The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery
By: Micki McElya
3.71
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Arlington National Cemetery is America's most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitor… read more
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29. Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
By: Penny M. Von Eschen
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In Paradoxes of Nostalgia Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweeping examination of the cold war’s after… read more
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30. Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy: The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American Century
By: Henry J. Hendrix
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This book examines President Theodore Roosevelt's use of the United States naval services as suppor… read more
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31. Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography
By: Thomas Alan Schwartz
4.03
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger--at least for those who neither revere nor revile himOv… read more
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