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Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
by Steven Waldman  Publisher Comments The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson 
Powells.com Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect...
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
by David McCullough Publisher Comments Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography...
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Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
by Eric Rauchway Publisher Comments When President McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the Commander...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen Ambrose
Powells.com Staff Pick At the heart of the immense and growing interest in Lewis and Clark in recent years stands this book. WWII historian Stephen Ambrose had long harbored a private obsession for the Expedition of the Corps of Discovery, and in Undaunted Courage he...
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Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era
by Nell Irvin Painter Publisher Comments "A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age."—Kirkus Reviews Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a...
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1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See
by Bruce Chadwick Publisher Comments 1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict. The...
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Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
by Ned Blackhawk Publisher Comments American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native...
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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man
by Hu Sebag Montefiore Publisher Comments In May of 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany were marching through France. In the face of this devastating advance, one of World War IIandrsquo;s greatest acts of heroism would be a retreat: the evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk. In Dunkirk...
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Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America
by Allen C. Guelzo Publisher Comments fill in...
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Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin
by David R. Contosta Synopsis February 12, 2009, will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of two of the most extraordinary and influential men in recent historyAbraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. Contosta makes a compelling case that by studying the similarities (along with the...
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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (Haymarket)
by Alexander Saxton Synopsis In this historical study, Saxton asks why white racism remained an idealogical force in America long after the need to justify slavery and Western conquest had disappeared. It examines images of race at a popular level, from blackfaced minstrels to dime...
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Geronimo Campaign (93 Edition)
by Odie B. Faulk Publisher Comments The surrender of the great Apache leader Geronimo to U.S Army Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood in August of 1886 brought to an end a struggle that had begun in the early years of the century, and had figured prominently in the western campaign of the Civil...
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Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
by Hampton Sides
Powells.com Staff Pick Hampton Sides's accounts of Kit Carson and the destruction of the Navajo nation are as gripping as fiction, but are horrifyingly true. This is a must-read for Southwest-history lovers. Recommended by Jeff F., Powells.com...
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Journals of Lewis and Clark (Rev 97 Edition)
by Bernard (ed.) Devoto
Powells.com Staff Pick Endorsed by Stephen Ambrose himself ("It is the ideal selection for the citizen-reader, an American classic in its own right..."), this selection of the journals of Lewis and Clark edited by celebrated novelist, literary scholar, and...
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Frontiers: A Short History of the American West (Lamar Series in Western History)
by Robert V Hine Publisher Comments Published in 2000 to critical acclaim, The American West: A New Interpretive History quickly became the standard in college history courses. Now Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher offer a concise edition of their classic, freshly updated. Lauded for...
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Best of Covered Wagon Women
by Kenneth L Holmes Book News Annotation Eight firsthand accounts of women who braved the overland trails during the great 19th-century westward migration are collected here. The accounts were selected for the power with which they portray the hardship, adventure, and family and friendship...
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)
by Daniel Walker Howe
Publisher Comments The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes two Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in What Hath God...
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The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890
by Richard Slotkin Book News Annotation **** Reprint of the Athenaeum original of 1985 (which is cited in BCL3). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
by Dean King
Synopsis - A crucial, forgotten chapter of American history--immortalized in a survivor's firsthand account that became one of the bestselling books in 19th-century America and influenced Abraham Lincoln's, thoughts on slavery--is brilliantly retold for a new...
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