23 best-selling history books like Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands by Katherine Benton-Cohen

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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…

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1. The Age of Reform

By: Richard Hofstadter

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent histo… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die."

-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform

"Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arra…"

-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform

"What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in politics, they produced only the genial reforms of Progressivism; and the man…"

-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform

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2. Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

4.26

Format: 281 pages, ebook

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more

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"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

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3. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

By: Walter Johnson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton planta… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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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
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

By: Richard White

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. T… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

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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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.80

Format: None pages,

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

By: Patricia Nelson Limerick

3.86

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

The 'settling' of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

By: None

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat … read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. The Hemingses of Monticello

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

3.77

Format: 342 pages,

This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

By: Erika Lee

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

By: Drew Gilpin Faust

3.93

Format: 316 pages,

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

13. 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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14. A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History

By: Thomas Bender

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

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15. American Slavery, American Freedom

By: Edmund S. Morgan

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. Ge… read more

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16. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

By: Jill Lepore

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, t… read more

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17. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

By: Andrés Reséndez

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A landmark history -- the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across … read more

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18. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America

By: Peggy Pascoe

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, W… read more

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19. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

By: Ira Katznelson

3.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itselffinally examines this pivotal … read more

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20. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

By: Claudio Saunt

4.23

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

By: Stephen R. Platt

4.32

Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

By: Megan Kate Nelson

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West dur… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

By: Alice L. Baumgartner

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial rol… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

By: Karl Jacoby

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award "An American 'Odyssey… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. 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 history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Politics and Society in Modern America)

By: Jefferson R. Cowie

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The New Deal: where does it fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us to… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

By: Kevin M. Kruse

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

"A gripping and troubling account of the origins of our turbulent times.” ―Jill Lepore, author of T… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land

By: Alaina E. Roberts

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Though Oklahoma is known in African American history circles for its all-Black spaces, like the famed ‘Black Wall Street’ of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, the first Black inhabitants of Indian Territor…"

-Alaina E. Roberts, I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land

"Apart from Cherokee freedpeople, Cherokee citizens also spoke out against the present of African Americans from the United States. In 1894, the editor of the Cherokee Advocate incited his fellow trib…"

-Alaina E. Roberts, I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land

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30. The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Politics and Society in Modern America)

By: Adam Goodman

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives Constant he… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. 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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Richard Hofstadter

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Walter Johnson

4.11

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Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

3.93

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Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

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