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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of — and in the words of — America's women, factory workers, African... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.00 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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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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline by Morris Berman Publisher Comments Praise for Why America Failed "Morris Berman is one of our most prescient and important social and cultural critics. He marries a laser-like intelligence with a deep moral core. His writing is as lucid and crisp as it is insightful.His newest book, Why... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines by Mark Stein Publisher Comments Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll Staff Pick The birth of the U.S. Navy and its coming-of-age engagements are the subject of this richly told and intriguing history. More than a maritime account, this action-filled read skillfully relates the struggles of our country in its infancy.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - 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 At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradoxunwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, Well Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tears in the Darkness (10 Edition) by Michael Norman Publisher Comments For the first four months of 1942, American, Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought America's first major land battle of World War II: the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the single largest defeat in American military... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Warmth of Other Suns (10 Edition) 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 $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein Publisher Comments Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West by Jeff Guinn Publisher Comments Now in paperback, bestselling author Jeff Guinn’s definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous shoot-out in American history—“A terrific read” (Clive Cussler). The so-called Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (which was... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson Publisher Comments National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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America: A Narrative History, Brief 8th edition Vol 1 by George Brown Tindall Publisher Comments America, now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The Brief Eighth Edition offers the attractive features of the full-length text'"lively and... (read more) Your price: $25.71 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard Publisher Comments An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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People's History of United States : 1492-present (Rev 95 - Old Edition) by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People?s History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools – with its emphasis on great men in... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How Italian Food Conquered the World by John F. F. Mariani Publisher Comments Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor mans gruel—little more than pizza, macaroni with sauce, and red wines in a box. Here, John Mariani shows how the Italian immigrants to America created, through perseverance and sheer... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Freedom From Fear : the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (99 Edition) 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: $34.00 Used - Hardcover
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins Publisher Comments Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual sly wit and unfussy style (People). When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Place Called Peculiar: Stories about Unusual American Place-Names by Frank K. Gallant Publisher Comments From Bug Tussle, Alabama, to Donnybrook, New York, this pop-culture history offers a highly entertaining survey of America's most unusual place-names and their often-humorous origins. The author traveled the country, recording the best stories... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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