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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson Staff Pick The Warmth of Other Suns is a fascinating epic narrative of the Great Migration by the brilliant and beautiful Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments Soon to be a major motion picture, Lincoln, from Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning writer Tony Kushner, and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the President and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. In this mega... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire of the Summer Moon (10 Edition) by S. C. Gwynne Publisher Comments In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Allen Publisher Comments “A style that is verve itself.” — New York Times “A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” — Chicago Daily Tribune From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harpers... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Of Plymouth Plantation (Dover Value Editions) by William Bradford Publisher Comments The most important and influential source of information about Plymouth, this landmark account was written by the colony's governor. It vividly documents the Pilgrims' first stop in Holland, their harrowing transatlantic crossing, the first... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments Drawing on hundreds of interviews and oral histories, Ambrose recreates life on the front lines during one of the bloodiest periods of World War II: from D-Day to the surrender of Germany. "The most gripping account of the second World War that I have... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam Publisher Comments "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times "[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dispatches by Michael Herr Publisher Comments "He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn Publisher Comments To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment," as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dereliction of Duty by H. R. Mcmaster Publisher Comments "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." - H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning new analysis of how... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford History of the United States #9: Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M Kennedy Publisher Comments Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch Publisher Comments Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by Bernard Bailyn Publisher Comments Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn has distilled a lifetime of study into this brilliant illumination of the ideas and world of the Founding Fathers. In five succinct essays he reveals the origins, depth, and global impact of their... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tewa World: Space, Time, Being, and Becoming in a Pueblo Society by Alfonso Ortiz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 by Elizabeth A Fenn Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-358) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au Of... by Ronald Takaki Publisher Comments In a blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paul Revere's Ride (94 Edition) by David Hackett Fischer Publisher Comments Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious look at the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley Publisher Comments The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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