History American

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#2
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
  • Eric Foner
01 read
#3
The Second Founding
The Second Founding
  • Eric Foner
39 reads
#5
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
  • Studs Terkel
4.335 reads
#7
A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
  • Howard Zinn
  • Kathy Emery
  • Ellen Gordon Reeves
4.23227 reads
#8
The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
  • Douglas R. Egerton
42 reads
#9
The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses
The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses
  • Stephen H. Norwood
00 reads
#10
Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America
Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America
  • Faye E. Dudden
00 reads
#11
Social And Industrial Conditions In The North During The Civil War
Social And Industrial Conditions In The North During The Civil War
  • Emerson David Fite
00 reads
#12
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.686 reads
#13
Hammer and hoe : Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
Hammer and hoe : Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
  • Robin D.G. Kelley
55 reads
#14
Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation
Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation
  • Gerald Horne
00 reads
#15
The Counter-Revolution of 1776
The Counter-Revolution of 1776
  • Gerald Horne
52 reads
#17
Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950
Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950
  • Mary Stanton
00 reads
#19
Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation
    00 reads
    #20
    Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South
    Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South
    • James Oakes
    00 reads
    #21
    The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders
    The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders
    • James Oakes
    00 reads
    #22
    The scorpion's sting
    The scorpion's sting
    • James Oakes
    00 reads
    #23
    Freedom National
    Freedom National
    • James Oakes
    01 read
    #24
    Cover 2

    The Radical and the Republican

    The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
    • James Oakes
    01 read
    #25
    The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s
    The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s
    • Masumi Izumi
    00 reads
    #26
    The Civil War in the United States
    The Civil War in the United States
    • Karl Marx
    • Friedrich Engels
    02 reads
    #27
    Scenes of subjection
    Scenes of subjection
    • Saidiya V. Hartman
    02 reads
    #28
    The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
    The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
    • Isabel Wilkerson
    4.46104 reads
    #29
    Cover 6

    Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness

    Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness: the first full story of America's long hot summer of hate
    • Robert E Conot
    00 reads
    #30
    A thousand days : John F. Kennedy in the White House
    A thousand days : John F. Kennedy in the White House
    • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
    3.52 reads
    #31
    Cover 5

    Kennedy Justice

    Kennedy Justice
    • Victor S. Navasky
    00 reads
    #32
    All the Presidents' Bankers : The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power
    All the Presidents' Bankers : The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power
    • Nomi Prins
    52 reads
    #33
    Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American liberalism
    Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American liberalism
    • Alonzo L. Hamby
    00 reads
    #34
    Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement, 1941-1960
    Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement, 1941-1960
    • Lawrence S. Wittner
    00 reads
    #35
    The Politics Of Rescue; The Roosevelt Administration And The Holocaust, 1938-1945
    The Politics Of Rescue; The Roosevelt Administration And The Holocaust, 1938-1945
    • Henry L. Feingold
    00 reads
    #36
    Grass-roots socialism
    Grass-roots socialism
    • James R. Green
    00 reads
    #37
    Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers 1898-1902
    Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers 1898-1902
    • Willard B. Gatewood Jr.
    00 reads
    #38
    Cover 6

    The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

    The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
    • William Appleman Williams
    41 read
    #39
    The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
    The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
    • Richard Hofstadter
    51 read
    #40
    The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
    The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
    • Greg Grandin
    3.56 reads
    #41
    Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
    Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
    • Carl T. Bogus
    00 reads
    #42
    Lies My Teacher Told Me
    Lies My Teacher Told Me
    • James W. Loewen
    4.0690 reads
    #43
    A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
    A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
    • Bruce Cannon Gibney
    4.175 reads
    #44
    The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century
    The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century
    • Glen Yeadon
    00 reads
    #45
    Monsters of the Ivy League
    Monsters of the Ivy League
    • Ellis Weiner
    • Ellis Weiner
    00 reads
    #46
    The Democrats: A Critical History
    The Democrats: A Critical History
    • Lance Selfa
    00 reads
    #47
    This Vast Southern Empire
    This Vast Southern Empire
    • Matthew Karp
    51 read
    #48
    Out of the House of Bondage
    Out of the House of Bondage
    • Thavolia Glymph
    00 reads
    #49
    Battle Cry of Freedom
    Battle Cry of Freedom
    • James M. McPherson
    4.530 reads
    #50
    Unseen Danger
    Unseen Danger
    • David DeKok
    00 reads
    #51
    The Populist Persuasion: An American History
    The Populist Persuasion: An American History
    • Michael Kazin
    00 reads
    #52
    The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970
    The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970
    • Sam Pizzigati
    00 reads
    #53
    Days of destruction, days of revolt
    Days of destruction, days of revolt
    • Chris Hedges
    4.756 reads
    #54
    Cover 8

    Fire on the Prairie

    Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race
    • Gary Rivlin
    00 reads
    #55
    Cover 4

    Giants

    Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
    • John Stauffer
    00 reads
    #56
    The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
    The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
    • Gordon S. Wood
    51 read
    #57
    Selected Speeches and Writings
    Selected Speeches and Writings
    • Abraham Lincoln
    00 reads
    #58
    The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents
    The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents
    • Ellen Schrecker
    00 reads
    #59
    A Conspiracy So Immense
    A Conspiracy So Immense
    • David M. Oshinsky
    41 read
    #60
    Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
    Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
    • Tim Weiner
    3.9632 reads
    #61
    The Very Best Men
    The Very Best Men
    • Evan Thomas
    00 reads
    #62
    Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy
    Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy
    • Christopher Simpson
    00 reads
    #63
    Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
    Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
    • Eric Foner
    4.6312 reads
    #64
    Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency
    Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency
    • Charlie Savage
    00 reads
    #65
    Cover 8

    Star-Spangled Shadow

    Star-Spangled Shadow
    • Denis Nowell Pritt
    00 reads
    #66
    American Theocracy
    American Theocracy
    • Kevin Phillips
    4.52 reads
    #67
    The Whiskey Rebellion
    The Whiskey Rebellion
    • William Hogeland
    02 reads
    #68
    Humane
    Humane
    • Samuel Moyn
    51 read
    #69
    Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War
    Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War
    • David Williams
    00 reads
    #70
    The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction
    The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction
    • LeeAnna Keith
    00 reads
    #71
    White Reconstruction
    White Reconstruction
    • Dylan Rodríguez
    00 reads
    #72
    Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now
    Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now
    • Felix Rohatyn
    41 read
    #73
    The Next Shift
    The Next Shift
    • Gabriel Winant
    41 read
    #74
    The peculiar institution
    The peculiar institution
    • Kenneth M. Stampp
    01 read
    #75
    Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
    Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
    • W.E.B. Du Bois
    01 read
    #76
    The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism
    The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism
    • Doris Kearns Goodwin
    4.297 reads
    #77
    No Ordinary Time
    No Ordinary Time
    • Doris Kearns Goodwin
    4.4319 reads
    #78
    How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West
    How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West
    • James Parisot
    00 reads
    #79
    The Untold History of the United States
    The Untold History of the United States
    • Oliver Stone
    • Peter Kuznick
    01 read
    #80
    The Internal Enemy
    The Internal Enemy
    • Alan Taylor
    42 reads
    #81
    Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United
    Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United
    • Zephyr Teachout
    00 reads
    #82
    Tomorrow, the World
    Tomorrow, the World
    • Stephen Wertheim
    43 reads
    #84
    The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State
    The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State
    • David Vine
    00 reads
    #85
    Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
    Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
    • Clare A. Lyons
    00 reads
    #86
    How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
    How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
    • Daniel Immerwahr
    4.4164 reads
    #87
    Reign of Terror
    Reign of Terror
    • Spencer Ackerman
    3.427 reads
    #88
    The Burglary
    The Burglary
    • Betty Medsger
    00 reads
    #89
    An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
    An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
    • Charles A. Beard
    31 read
    #90
    Gangsters of Capitalism
    Gangsters of Capitalism
    • Jonathan M. Katz
    4.298 reads
    #91
    The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World
    The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World
    • Immanuel Wallerstein
    00 reads
    #92
    Empire of the Summer Moon
    Empire of the Summer Moon
    • S. C. Gwynne
    4.0350 reads
    #93
    Public Citizens
    Public Citizens
    • Paul Sabin
    00 reads
    #94
    Enemies: A History of the FBI
    Enemies: A History of the FBI
    • Tim Weiner
    33 reads
    #95
    Soul by Soul
    Soul by Soul
    • Walter Johnson
    41 read
    #96
    Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
    Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
    • Mary Sarah Bilder
    00 reads
    #97
    Cover 0

    Class Struggle and the New Deal

    Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State
    • Rhonda F. Levine
    00 reads
    #98
    Cover 7

    Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940

    Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940
    • William E. Leuchtenburg
    01 read
    #99
    Exit Right
    Exit Right
    • Daniel Oppenheimer
    00 reads
    #100
    Crude Oil, Crude Money: Aristotle Onassis, Saudi Arabia, and the CIA
    Crude Oil, Crude Money: Aristotle Onassis, Saudi Arabia, and the CIA
    • Thomas W Lippman
    00 reads
    #101
    Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State
    Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State
    • Claire Dunning
    01 read
    #102
    The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States
    The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States
    • Theodore J. Lowi
    00 reads
    #103
    The Politics and Civics of National Service: Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps
    The Politics and Civics of National Service: Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps
    • Melissa Bass
    00 reads
    #104
    Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
    Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
    • Richard Franklin Bensel
    00 reads
    #105
    Cover 4

    The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900

    The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
    • Richard Franklin Bensel
    00 reads
    #106
    Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980
    Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980
    • Richard Franklin Bensel
    00 reads