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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen Ambrose
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough
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The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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John Adams
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Johnstown Flood (Touchstone Books)
by David McCullough
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Worldly Philosophers 7TH Edition
by Robert L Heilbroner
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by Zhensheng Li
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
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America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live by
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
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The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
by David Crist
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To Marry an English Lord
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John Quincy Adams
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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
by Anthony Shadid
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