American History

Spying on the South

By Tony Horwitz

Sisters and Rebels

By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

The Pioneers

By David McCullough

The Guarded Gate

By Daniel Okrent

A Good American Family

By David Maraniss

Ghosts of Gold Mountain

By Gordon H. Chang

Black Death at the Golden Gate

By David K. Randall

The White Devil’s Daughters

By Julia Flynn Siler

The British Are Coming

By Rick Atkinson

The Problem of Democracy

By Andrew Burstein, By Nancy Isenberg

White Shoe

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

By David Treuer

A compelling counternarrative to commonly accepted myths about American Indian history.

A compelling counternarrative to commonly accepted myths about American Indian history.

These Truths

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