American Studies

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146 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	Fat Shame Amy Erdman Farrell	0	0 reads
#3	This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust	3.81	8 reads
#4	We See It All We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance Jon Fasman	3.5	2 reads
#5	Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America John J. Fialka	0	0 reads
#6	Battles for Freedom Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History Eric Foner	0	0 reads
#7	The Second Founding Eric Foner	3	9 reads
#8	Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy Robert H. Frank	3.67	7 reads
#9	The Cult of the Constitution Mary Anne Franks	0	1 read
#10	The Age of Edison Ernest Freeberg	3.5	2 reads
#11	The History of Policing America: From Militias and Military to the Law Enforcement of Today Laurence Armand French	0	0 reads
#12	Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy K. Healan Gaston	0	0 reads
#13	Culture of Fear Barry Glassner	3.25	4 reads
#14	Anti-intellectualism in American Life. Richard Hofstadter	4.29	10 reads
#15	Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea Joshua Horwitz Casey Anderson	0	0 reads
#16	American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation Holly Jackson	0	0 reads
#17	Operation Paperclip Annie Jacobsen	4.23	29 reads
#18	Incidents in the life of a slave girl Harriet Ann Jacobs	3.87	29 reads
#19	American Prophets American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country Jack Jenkins	0	1 read
#20	When Affirmative Action Was White Ira Katznelson	4	4 reads
#21	Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi	4.53	90 reads
#22	The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech Jeff Kosseff	0	0 reads
#23	One Nation Under God Kevin Kruse	4.14	8 reads
#24	White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism Kevin M. Kruse	4	3 reads
#25	Myth America Kevin M. Kruse Julian E. Zelizer	3.57	10 reads
#26	The Making of Asian America: A History Erika Lee	3.88	12 reads
#27	The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause" James W. Loewen	0	0 reads
#28	Lies across America James W. Loewen	4	4 reads
#29	They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School K. Tsianina Lomawaima	0	0 reads
#30	A History of America in Ten Strikes Erik Loomis	4.6	7 reads
#31	The Meritocracy Trap Daniel Markovits	4.25	4 reads
#32	In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement	4.6	6 reads
#33	An American Plague Jim Murphy	3.2	6 reads
#34	Undoing the Knots Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness Maureen O'Connell	0	0 reads
#35	The Guarded Gate Daniel Okrent	4	1 read
#36	Abortion Rites Abortion Rites: A Social History of Abortion in America Marvin Olasky	0	0 reads
#37	Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America	4.33	50 reads
#38	How the pro-choice movement saved America Cristina Page	5	1 read
#39	Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform David Pettinicchio	0	0 reads
#40	Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism Kevin Phillips	2	2 reads
#41	A Problem from Hell Samantha Power	3.55	14 reads
#42	Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America Polly J. Price	0	0 reads
#43	When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface Leslie J. Reagan	0	0 reads
#44	America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination John Rhodehamel	0	0 reads
#45	When General Grant expelled the Jews Jonathan D. Sarna	0	1 read
#46	Unworthy Republic Claudio Saunt	4.33	3 reads
#47	The Democrats: A Critical History Lance Selfa	0	0 reads
#48	Detained without Cause: Muslims' Stories of Detention and Deportation in America after 9/11 Irum Shiekh	0	0 reads
#49	Conduct Unbecoming Conduct Unbecoming: Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military Randy Shilts	0	0 reads
#50	The Color of Law Richard Rothstein	4.39	110 reads
#51	How the Word Is Passed Clint Smith	4.81	62 reads
#52	Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders Denise A. Spellberg	0	0 reads
#53	How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish	3	1 read
#54	Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Ronald Takaki	5	3 reads
#55	The Call of the Weird : Travels in American Subcultures Louis Theroux	3.39	17 reads
#56	The Color of Compromise Jemar Tisby	4.8	18 reads
#57	Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States James W. Trent	0	0 reads
#58	The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee David Treuer	4.44	15 reads
#59	Under the Skin Linda Villarosa	4.33	5 reads
#60	The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory Jesse Walker	2.5	2 reads
#61	The Best Land Under Heaven Michael Wallis	4.5	3 reads
#62	Hijacking History: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why It Matters Kathleen Wellman	0	0 reads
#63	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson	4.46	106 reads
#64	The Religion of American Greatness The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism Paul D. Miller	0	0 reads
#65	Different Mirror Ronald Takaki	4	6 reads
#66	The Religion of White Supremacy in the United States Eric Weed	0	0 reads
#67	Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate Alexandra Minna Stern	4.5	2 reads
#68	Morristown: The Darkest Winter of the Revolutionary War and the Plot to Kidnap George Washington William Hazelgrove	0	0 reads
#69	White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall Reece Jones	0	0 reads
#70	Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments Roger C. Hartley	0	0 reads
#71	First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity Maurizio Valsania	0	0 reads
#72	Insurrections of the Mind Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America Franklin Foer	0	1 read
#73	South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Imani Perry	3.86	8 reads
#74	American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea Ian Tyrrell	0	0 reads
#75	Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 Charles Reagan Wilson	0	0 reads
#76	The Strange Career of Jim Crow C. Vann Woodward William S. McFeely	4	2 reads
#77	Working Toward Whiteness Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs David R. Roediger	3	2 reads
#78	We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.36	77 reads
#79	Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness Elizabeth D. Samet	3.33	3 reads
#80	Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis Robert D. Putnam	4.33	7 reads
#81	After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It Will Bunch	3	1 read
#82	Iron Cages Iron Cages : Race and Culture in 19th-Century America Ronald Takaki	0	0 reads
#83	Four Threats Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy Suzanne Mettler Robert C. Lieberman	0	0 reads
#84	The Founding Myth The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American Andrew L. Seidel Susan Jacoby	4	1 read
#85	Founding Myths Ray Raphael	0	0 reads
#86	Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Tony Horwitz	4.19	27 reads
#87	This Earthly Frame David Sehat	5	1 read
#88	Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular David A. Hollinger	0	0 reads
#89	A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America Mark Caldwell	0	0 reads
#90	Garbage Land Elizabeth Royte	4	2 reads
#91	The Tyranny of the Meritocracy Lani Guinier	0	0 reads
#92	Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream Alissa Quart	0	1 read
#93	O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner" Mark Clague	3	1 read
#94	I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States Paul Elliott Johnson	0	0 reads
#95	The Destructionists Dana Milbank	3.6	7 reads
#96	Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Misguided Wars	0	0 reads
#97	The land of open graves Jason De León	5	4 reads
#98	Constitutional myths Ray Raphael	0	0 reads
#99	The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord Ray Raphael	0	0 reads
#100	Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America Michael Ruhlman	3.43	7 reads
#101	Wild horse country David Philipps	0	0 reads