Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
By: Robert G. Parkinson
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the m…
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1. Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
By: Kathleen DuVal
3.87
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with t… read more
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2. Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York
By: Thomas M. Truxes
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic account of illicit trading by New York City merchants, some of whom became America’s Fou… read more
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3. Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
By: None , Sunil Amrith
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of … read more
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4. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
By: Kathleen M. Brown
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspec… read more
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- race
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- grad school
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5. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
By: Angela Y. Davis , Maryse Condé , Richard Philcox
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contempo… read more
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6. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
By: Mark Atwood Lawrence
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels … read more
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7. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on moder… read more
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8. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
By: Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives … read more
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9. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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10. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
By: Jill Lepore
3.50
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner Over a frigid few weeks in the winter of 1741, … read more
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11. The History Manifesto
By: David Armitage , None
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years bett… read more
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12. Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
By: Holger Hoock
4.20
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's founding The American Revolution is oft… read more
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13. 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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14. Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
By: Robert G. Parkinson
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the m… read more
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- american revolution
- nonfiction
15. 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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16. 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
17. 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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18. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
By: Elizabeth N. Ellis
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N. Ellis (Peoria) tells the stories of the many smal… read more
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19. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more
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20. The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery
By: Eric Hinderaker
3.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In September 1755, the most famous Indian in the world--a Mohawk leader known in English as King He… read more
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21. American Marxism
By: Mark R. Levin
4.17
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
The six-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin expl… read more
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22. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
By: Julius S. Scott
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more
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23. Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
By: Vincent Brown
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an… read more
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24. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Sophie White
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the… read more
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- history
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25. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
By: Kate Masur
4.20
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beg… read more
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26. The Boston Massacre: A Family History
By: Serena R. Zabin
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Historical accuracy and human understanding require coming down from the high ground and seeing pe… read more
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27. The Young Lords: A Radical History
By: Johanna Fernandez
4.61
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of… read more
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28. Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (Volume 63) (American Crossroads)
By: Moon-Ho Jung
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to … read more
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29. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
By: Kidada E. Williams
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the … read more
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30. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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31. Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction
By: Carly Goodman
4.24
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent r… read more
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