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The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration
by Kathy Flynn
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W Loewen
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Americana: The Americas in the World Around 1850
by James Dunkerley
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
by Charles R Morris
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1776
by David McCullough
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Ted Kennedy: Scenes from an Epic Life
by Boston Globe
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
by Daniel Okrent
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White House Diary
by Jimmy Carter
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
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A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, and North Koreas Nuclear Ambitions
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Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
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Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
by Jimmy Carter
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For Love of Politics: Inside the Clinton White House
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Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
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In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal
by William Hyland
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The belief that Thomas Jefferson had an affair and fathered a child (or children) with slave Sally Hemings---and that such an allegation was proven by DNA testing—has become so pervasive in American popular culture that it is not only widely... (read more)

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