Historiography: An Introductory Guide
By: Eileen Cheng
3.52
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians…
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1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
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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3. The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States
By: Alexander Keyssar
4.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
Most Americans take for granted their right to vote, whether they choose to exercise it or not. But… read more
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4. The Illustrated Man
By: Ray Bradbury
4.13
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to … read more
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"Oh, death in space was most humorous."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"I shall remain on Mars and read a book."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived?"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Nothing ever likes to die--not even a room. (p.23 --> The Veldt)"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
5. Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
By: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , Cyclone Covey
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to cross the North American continent. This remar… read more
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6. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a… read more
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7. From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography offers a concise yet comprehensive and up-to-d… read more
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8. The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
By: Charles E. Rosenberg
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the … read more
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9. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
By: Christopher R. Browning
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more
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"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
10. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
By: Reginald Horsman
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Mr. Horsman's … read more
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11. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
By: Kate L. Turabian , Joseph M. Williams , Gregory G. Colomb , Wayne C. Booth , University of Chicago Press
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dewey. Bellow. Strauss. Friedman. The University of Chicago has been the home of some of the most i… read more
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12. Letters from Father Christmas
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Baillie Tolkien
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien's ch… read more
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13. The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to George W. Bush
By: None
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
For a quarter-century, Fred I. Greenstein has been one of our keenest observers of the modern presi… read more
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14. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By: Hannah Arendt
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more
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15. The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a lar… read more
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16. American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
By: Alan Taylor
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
Often wishfully understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution builds in this … read more
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17. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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18. Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #1)
By: Drew Karpyshyn
5.00
Format: None pages,
Once the Sith order teemed with followers. But their rivalries divided them in endless battles for … read more
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19. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 888 pages, Hardcover
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more
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"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
20. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
By: Peter Baker
4.46
Format: 725 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency ye… read more
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21. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
22. Female Husbands: A Trans History
By: Jen Manion
4.01
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women w… read more
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23. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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24. 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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25. The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story
By: Kermit Roosevelt III
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Our idea of the Founders' America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders,… read more
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26. Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
By: Kathryn Olivarius
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immun… read more
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27. Unrequited Toil (Cambridge Essential Histories)
By: Calvin Schermerhorn
3.83
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Written as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an … read more
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28. Historiography: An Introductory Guide
By: Eileen Cheng
3.52
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians… read more
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29. American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Heather Andrea Williams
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a cap… read more
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30. Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (Early American Studies)
By: Ann M. Little
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which… read more
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31. Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the Massacre
By: Ian K. Steele
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers defending the besieged Fort William… read more
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