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Americana: The Americas in the World Around 1850
by James Dunkerley
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A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation
by Howard Zinn and Paul Buhle and Mike Konopacki
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Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision of World Peace
by Peter Janney
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Don't Know Much About? the American Presidents
by Kenneth C Davis
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Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
by Denise Kiernan
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Ted Kennedy: Scenes from an Epic Life
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White House Diary
by Jimmy Carter
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
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Listening in: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy
by John F Kennedy
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
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Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation
by Alfred F. Young
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My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry That Led to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
by Nora Titone
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The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a... (read more)

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The Dogs of War: 1861
by Emory M Thomas
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In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more than half a million people. But as eminent Civil War... (read more)

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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
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For Love of Politics: Inside the Clinton White House
by Sally Bedell Smith
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Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
by Jimmy Carter
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The Twentieth Century: A People's History
by Howard Zinn
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