11 Best american history books like Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American ... and the University of North Carolina Press) by Susan Sleeper-Smith

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Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

By: Susan Sleeper-Smith

4.36

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women create…

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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. Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

By: Brett Rushforth

4.05

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated … read more

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Cover of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

4.25

Format: 509 pages, Paperback

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more

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"It is too often the case,"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Cover of The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent by Kathleen DuVal

4. The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent

By: Kathleen DuVal

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were often able to determin… read more

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  • history
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Cover of The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash

5. The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution

By: Gary B. Nash

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Urban Crucibleboldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. Thr… read more

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  • the united states of america
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6. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By: Bryan Stevenson

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more

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  • race
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Cover of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

7. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history i… read more

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Cover of Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death by Deborah T. Levenson

8. Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death

By: Deborah T. Levenson

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In Adios Nino: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines … read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

By: Gordon S. Wood

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

During the Revolutionary era, American political theory underwent a fundamental transformation that… read more

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10. The Comanche Empire

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fie… read more

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11. Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade

By: None

2.62

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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12. Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits

By: Allan Greer

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

On October 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Saint Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native North … read more

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13. Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America

By: Michael McDonnell

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the nat… read more

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14. Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala

By: None

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret … read more

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15. The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution

By: Alan Taylor

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Towncomes a dramatic and illuminating po… read more

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16. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940

By: None

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for n… read more

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17. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more

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  • race
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Cover of Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American ... and the University of North Carolina Press) by Susan Sleeper-Smith

18. Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

By: Susan Sleeper-Smith

4.36

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women create… read more

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Cover of Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

19. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

4.17

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

"Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current… read more

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"Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved. The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war"

-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"

-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"

-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

"We now know, thanks to developments in DNA analysis, that one in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor. Say, a great great great grandfath…"

-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Cover of The Boston Massacre: A Family History by Serena R. Zabin

20. 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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Cover of Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Witgen

21. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

By: Michael John Witgen

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homelan… read more

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Cover of The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River (Critical Studies in Native History, 20) by Susan M. Hill

22. The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River (Critical Studies in Native History, 20)

By: Susan M. Hill

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Ha… read more

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Cover of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V. Carby

23. Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands

By: Hazel V. Carby

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, evocative history of British Empire, told through one woman’s family story“Where are yo… read more

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Cover of The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840–1875 by M.Max Hamon

24. The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840–1875

By: M.Max Hamon

3.71

Format: 478 pages, Hardcover

Louis Riel (1844-1885) was an iconic figure in Canadian history best known for his roles in the Red… read more

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Cover of Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877 by Ryan   Hall

25. Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877

By: Ryan Hall

4.21

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people cont… read more

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18 must-read history books like Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American ... and the University of North Carolina Press) by Susan Sleeper-Smith

Transform Your Habits

Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

Kathleen DuVal

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

Brett Rushforth

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent

Kathleen DuVal

3.50

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12 Best history books like Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V. Carby

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Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

Brett Rushforth

4.05

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

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In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

3.39

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