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 Day Freedom Died
The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
History
Politics
American History
American Midnight
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
History
Politics
American History
Trail of Tears
A Captivating Guide to the Forced Removals of Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Nations
History
American History
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White Flight
Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
History
Politics
Race
The Guarded Gate
Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
History
Politics
American History
Freedom’s Dominion
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
History
Politics
Race
A Different Mirror
A History of Multicultural America
History
Race
Social Justice
Four Threats
The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
Politics
History
Political Science
Civic Ideals
Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
History
Politics
American History
The Populist Moment
A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America
History
Politics
American History
Railroaded
The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
History
American History
Economics
The Undertow
Scenes from a Slow Civil War
Politics
History
Religion
It's Even Worse Than It Looks
How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism
Politics
History
Political Science
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
History
American History
Race
Empire of Cotton
A New History of Global Capitalism
History
Economics
World History
The White House Is Burning
August 24, 1814
History
American History
Middle Grade
Love & Whiskey
The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
History
Biography
Book Club
The Age of Abundance
How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture
Economics
History
Politics
Red Summer
The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
History
American History
Race
This Vast Southern Empire
Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
History
American History
Politics
West of Slavery
The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
American History
History
American Civil War
What I Saw at the Revolution
A Political Life in the Reagan Era
Politics
History
Biography
Liberty and Coercion
The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present
History
Politics
American History
It Was All a Lie
How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
Politics
History
American History
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
Politics
History
United States
Becoming Madam Secretary
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Historical
The Reactionary Spirit
How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World
Politics
History
Essays
Slavery's Constitution
From Revolution to Ratification
History
American History
Politics
Finks
How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers
History
Politics
American History
A Nation Without Borders
The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
History
American History
Politics
The Conservative Sensibility
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Ground Breaking
An American City and Its Search for Justice
History
Race
Social Justice
Slave Breeding
Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History
History
African American
American History
Partisans
The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
Politics
History
American History
The Destructionists
The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party
Politics
History
Current Affairs
The Visible Hand
The Managerial Revolution in American Business
History
Business
Economics
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
Politics
History
Political Science
Why the New Deal Matters
History
Politics
American History
Panama Fever
The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-the Building of the Panama Canal
History
Science
Engineering
The Color of Welfare
How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Sociology
Politics
History
The Great Exception
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
History
Politics
Economics
White Borders
The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
History
Politics
Race
The Age of Acquiescence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
History
Politics
Economics
The Bloody Shirt
Terror After Appomattox
History
Civil War
American History
The Politics of Rage
George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
Politics
History
American History
On Desperate Ground
The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
History
War
Military Fiction
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
History
American History
Civil War
The Fall of the House of Labor
The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
History
Labor
Politics
The Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory
History
American History
Military History
The Common Cause
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
History
American Revolution
American History
