20th Century U.S. History

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

By J. D. Vance

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

By Gregg Herken

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex

By Michael Hiltzik

The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians

By Cynthia C. Kelly, Richard Rhodes

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

By G Pascal Zachary

The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold War America

By Fried

American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film

By David Seed

Nixon, Kissinger, and US Foreign Policy Making: The Machinery of Crisis

By Asaf Siniver (University of Birmingham)

The Americans: v.3: The Democratic Experience

By Daniel J. Boorstin

Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

By Hampton Sides

Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

By Colin Grant

Brown v. Board of Education:: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

By Patterson

Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle

By Steven F. Lawson

Religion and American Politics

By Mark A. Noll

Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment

By William Inboden, III

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By martin-luther-king-jr

Caesars of the Wilderness

By Peter Charles Newman

The Battle of Midway

By Craig L. Symonds (Professor of History, Professor of History, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, United States)

Yanks and Limeys: Alliance Warfare in the Second World War

By Niall Barr

The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Opposition

By Joel Schalit

No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture

By Andrew Ross

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Branch

Shockwave

By Stephen Walker

Why Niebuhr Now?

By John Patrick Diggins

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By Daniel James Brown

Panama's Canal: What Happens When the United States Gives a Small Country What it Wants

By Mark Falcoff

Dr.Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

By Richard H. Minear

Corcoran James : Murder at Twilight

By James Corcoran

The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam

By Jerry Lembcke

All the President's Men: 20th Anniversary Ed

By Carl Bernstein