American History
The stories of America unfold through pivotal moments, legendary figures, and the complex forces that shaped a nation - from Revolutionary spies and Civil War commanders to modern presidents and cultural transformations. These compelling accounts illuminate the triumphs, struggles, and decisions that echo through time, revealing how determined individuals and powerful ideas have steered the American experiment.
American History Book Summaries
The Pioneers
The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
History
American History
Historical
The Long Alliance
The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama
Politics
History
Biography
Not Stolen
The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World
History
American History
Politics
Give Your Heart to the Hawks
History
American History
Westerns
The Case That Never Dies
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
True Crime
Crime
History
Bunk
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
History
Psychology
Sociology
Transaction Man
The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
History
Economics
Business
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1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations)] [Author: Ervand Abrahamian] published on
History
Iran
Middle East
Trail of Tears
The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
History
Native American
American History
Slavery by Another Name
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
History
Race
Politics
Buckley
The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
Biography
History
Politics
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
History
Race
Politics
The Secret Token
Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
History
American History
Mystery
Hellhound on His Trail
The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
History
True Crime
Biography
The Project
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
Politics
History
Sociology
The Brothers
John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
History
Biography
Politics
A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1
1913-1951
Economics
History
Finance
Medicine River
A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
History
Indigenous
Memoir
Worse Than Slavery
Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
History
Race
African American
After the Fall
Being American in the World We've Made
Politics
History
Memoir
Authoritarian Nightmare
Trump and His Followers
Politics
Psychology
History
Rebellion
How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart – Again
Politics
History
American History
The Great Contradiction
The Tragic Side of the American Founding
History
American History
Politics
Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
History
Politics
American History
Never Caught
The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
History
Biography
American History
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
America and the World in the Free Market Era
Politics
History
Economics
How the South Won the Civil War
Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
History
Politics
American History
The South Was Right!
History
Civil War
American History
Reconstruction
America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
History
American History
Civil War
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
History
American History
Politics
In the Heart of the Sea
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
History
Adventure
Survival
Dark Tide
The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
History
American History
Book Club
Science of Coercion
Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960
History
Psychology
Politics
King of Kings
The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
History
Politics
Middle East
Franchise
The Golden Arches in Black America
History
Business
Race
American Lion
Andrew Jackson in the White House
History
Biography
Presidents
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
History
Biography
American History
The Original Black Elite
Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
History
Race
Biography
The Fight in the Fields
Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
History
Politics
Labor
The Wages of Whiteness
Race and the Making of the American Working Class
History
Race
Politics
The Indispensable Right
Free Speech in an Age of Rage
Politics
History
Philosophy
Unworthy Republic
The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
History
American History
Politics
American Holocaust
The Conquest of the New World
History
Native American
Politics
The Last Stand
Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
History
American History
Biography
Mexifornia
A State of Becoming
Politics
History
American History
Sex in the Heartland
History
Sexuality
American History
Killing Lincoln
The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
History
Biography
Historical
The Jungle Grows Back
America and Our Imperiled World
Politics
History
International Relations
The Deadline
Essays
Essays
History
Politics
Cuba
An American History
History
Politics
American History
