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American History

Updated over 1 year ago
123 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson	4.46	105 reads
#3	John Adams David McCullough	4.37	101 reads
#4	Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann	4.15	501 reads
#5	Lafayette in the Somewhat United States Sarah Vowell	4.09	40 reads
#6	Washington: A Life Ron Chernow	4.4	64 reads
#7	The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro	4.68	88 reads
#8	The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs	4.21	57 reads
#9	Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Rick Perlstein	4.03	27 reads
#10	An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz	4.28	49 reads
#11	Conquering Gotham Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels Jill Jonnes	0	0 reads
#12	Boss Tweed Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York Kenneth D. Ackerman	0	0 reads
#13	The Path to Power Robert A. Caro	4.67	40 reads
#14	Grant Ron Chernow	4.47	54 reads
#15	The Wise Men Walter Isaacson	4	4 reads
#16	The Rise and Fall of American Growth Robert J. Gordon	4.6	6 reads
#17	Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America Sam Roberts	0	0 reads
#18	The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics Sean Wilentz	3	1 read
#19	Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow	4.41	166 reads
#20	The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism Doris Kearns Goodwin	4.06	20 reads
#21	The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg	0	0 reads
#22	History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson Henry Adams	0	0 reads
#23	No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin	4.43	19 reads
#24	Lincoln David Herbert Donald	4.27	13 reads
#25	1776 David McCullough	4.04	146 reads
#26	The wilderness warrior Douglas Brinkley	4.25	3 reads
#27	Traitor to His Class H. W. Brands	3.83	3 reads
#28	Nothing to Fear Adam Cohen	0	1 read
#29	Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernow	3.95	42 reads
#30	Embers of War Fredrik Logevall	0	0 reads
#31	Bush Jean Edward Smith	4	2 reads
#32	The Wright Brothers David McCullough	4.08	77 reads
#33	Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation John Sedgwick	5	1 read
#34	George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis	3.67	3 reads
#35	The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80s Paul Slansky	0	0 reads
#36	The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 Joseph J. Ellis	4.05	13 reads
#37	Whistlestop Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History John Dickerson	3	3 reads
#38	Assassination Vacation Sarah Vowell	4.03	82 reads
#39	The Hawk and the Dove The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War Nicholas Thompson	0	0 reads
#40	Boom Town Sam Anderson	4.22	23 reads
#41	The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King Jr.	4.54	16 reads
#42	Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department Dean Acheson	0	1 read
#43	A Land So Strange Andrés Reséndez	4.38	4 reads
#44	Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure Julia Flynn Siler	0	1 read
#45	Hawaii's Story Hawaii's Story Liliuokalani	5	1 read
#46	Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Edwin G. Burrows Mike Wallace	4.33	6 reads
#47	Henry Clay Robert V. Remini	0	0 reads
#48	Eisenhower: in War and Peace Jean Edward Smith	4.25	7 reads
#49	Grant Jean Edward Smith	3.5	2 reads
#50	Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World Jill Jonnes	4	7 reads
#51	The Rise of American Democracy Sean Wilentz	0	1 read
#52	The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century Scott Miller	3.71	7 reads
#53	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass	4.2	143 reads
#54	The land of open graves Jason De León	5	4 reads
#55	What the Eyes Don't See Mona Hanna-Attisha	4.25	10 reads
#56	Perilous Times Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism Geoffrey R. Stone	0	0 reads
#57	The Partly Cloudy Patriot Sarah Vowell	3.95	44 reads
#58	Imbeciles Adam Cohen	4	7 reads
#59	The Wordy Shipmates Sarah Vowell	3.77	51 reads
#60	The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives Jesse Eisinger	3.33	6 reads
#61	California: A History Kevin Starr	4.25	5 reads
#62	California California: An Intimate History Gertrude Atherton	0	0 reads
#63	Unfamiliar Fishes Sarah Vowell	3.89	42 reads
#64	Empire of the Summer Moon S. C. Gwynne	4.03	51 reads
#65	Barracoon Zora Neale Hurston	4.07	38 reads
#66	The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander	4.55	188 reads
#67	The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X Alex Haley	4.45	191 reads
#68	A Mercy Toni Morrison	3.91	27 reads
#69	Imperial San Francisco Gray Brechin	2	1 read
#70	The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth Laurel Thatcher Ulrich	0	1 read
#71	The Fourth Part of the World Toby Lester	0	0 reads
#72	New York Burning New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan Jill Lepore	0	0 reads
#73	These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore	4.23	47 reads
#74	The name of war Jill Lepore	4	4 reads
#75	Empire Express Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad David Haward Bain	0	0 reads
#76	Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam Nick Turse	4.22	13 reads
#77	Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam Frances FitzGerald	4	2 reads
#78	Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.56	568 reads
#79	We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.39	76 reads
#80	One Nation Under God Kevin Kruse	4.14	8 reads
#81	Young Radicals Young Radicals Jeremy McCarter	0	0 reads
#82	The Story of America: Essays on Origins Jill Lepore	0	0 reads
#83	Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Catherine Clinton	4	3 reads
#84	The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris	4.32	47 reads
#85	Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life Jane Sherron De Hart	4.25	4 reads
#86	Polk Walter R. Borneman	3.25	5 reads
#87	The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk Randy Shilts	4.33	4 reads
#88	American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution A. Roger Ekirch	0	0 reads
#89	The Bodies in Person: An Account of Civilian Casualties in American Wars Nick McDonell	0	0 reads
#90	Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President Candice Millard	4.27	54 reads
#91	War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence Ronan Farrow	4.27	26 reads
#92	How the hippies saved physics David Kaiser	0	1 read
#93	Bowling Alone Robert D. Putnam	4.08	17 reads
#94	Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration Emily Bazelon	4.67	6 reads
#95	The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead	4.03	446 reads
#96	The Beat Hotel Barry Miles	0	0 reads
#97	How Was It For You? Virginia Nicholson	0	0 reads
#98	Natural and Moral History of the Indies José de Acosta	0	0 reads
#99	Our Man in New York Our Man in New York: The British Plot to Bring America into the Second World War Henry Hemming	0	0 reads
#100	From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932 From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States David A. Hounshell	0	0 reads
#101	There There Tommy Orange	3.93	292 reads