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…
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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. 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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3. All the Real Indians Died off: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz , Dina Gilio-Whitaker
3.51
Format: 178 pages,
Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native Americans " All the Real I… read more
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4. The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
By: Morton J. Horwitz
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History in 1978, Morton J. Horwitz's The Transformation of A… read more
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5. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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6. 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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7. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
By: Chandra Manning
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root… read more
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8. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more
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9. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
10. 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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11. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
By: None
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United Sta… read more
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12. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
By: Richard B. Morris , Henry Steele Commager , Eric Foner
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) ma… read more
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13. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
By: Jim Sciutto
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more
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14. 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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- politics
- native american
- native american history
- indigenous
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- native americans
15. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
By: Nicole Eustace
3.61
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the dist… read more
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16. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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17. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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- audiobook
18. 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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19. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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20. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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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22. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
23. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Lisa Brooks
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more
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24. 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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25. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
By: Robert P. Jones
4.43
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a pro… read more
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26. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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27. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more
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"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
28. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
By: David Treuer
4.23
Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A sweeping history—and counter-narr… read more
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29. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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30. Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
By: Megan Kate Nelson
3.70
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating stor… read more
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31. Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States
By: James Willard Hurst
3.25
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
In these essays J. Willard Hurst shows the correlation between the conception of individual freedom… read more
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