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American Studies

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Fat Shame
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
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We See It All

Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America
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Battles for Freedom

The Second Founding
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
The Cult of the Constitution
The Age of Edison
The History of Policing America: From Militias and Military to the Law Enforcement of Today
Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy
Culture of Fear
Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea
American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
Operation Paperclip
Incidents in the life of a slave girl
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American Prophets

When Affirmative Action Was White
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech
One Nation Under God
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
Myth America
The Making of Asian America: A History
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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader

Lies across America
They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School
A History of America in Ten Strikes
The Meritocracy Trap
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
An American Plague
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Undoing the Knots

The Guarded Gate
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Abortion Rites

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
How the pro-choice movement saved America
Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
A Problem from Hell
Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America
When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface
America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination
When General Grant expelled the Jews
Unworthy Republic
The Democrats: A Critical History
Detained without Cause: Muslims' Stories of Detention and Deportation in America after 9/11
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Conduct Unbecoming

The Color of Law
How the Word Is Passed
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Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an

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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
The Call of the Weird : Travels in American Subcultures
The Color of Compromise
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Under the Skin
The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
The Best Land Under Heaven
Hijacking History: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why It Matters
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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The Religion of American Greatness

Different Mirror
The Religion of White Supremacy in the United States
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
Morristown: The Darkest Winter of the Revolutionary War and the Plot to Kidnap George Washington
White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments
First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity
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Insurrections of the Mind

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea
Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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Working Toward Whiteness

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It
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Iron Cages

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Four Threats

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The Founding Myth

Founding Myths
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
This Earthly Frame
Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular
A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
Garbage Land
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy
Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States
The Destructionists
Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Misguided Wars
The land of open graves
Constitutional myths
The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord
Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
Wild horse country
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