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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

By Stephen Kinzer

By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age

By Paul Boyer

The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

By Gino Segre, Bettina Hoerlin

Man of the Hour

By Jennet Conant

Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

By Leon F. Litwack

Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R.Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man

By Robert S. Norris

Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair

By Michael R Beschloss

One Summer: America, 1927

By Bill Bryson

An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King

By William F Pepper

LOOKING FORWARD

By Unknown

The Cover-Up at Omaha Beach: D-Day, the US Rangers, and the Untold Story of Maisy Battery

By Gary Sterne, Don Mann

American Exceptionalism

By Deborah L. Madsen (Chair of American Literature)

The Algiers Motel Incident

New Deal Photography. USA 1935-1943

By Peter Walther

The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement

By Winifred Breines (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University)

But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle

By Glenn T. Eskew

Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On A Wing And A Prayer Over Occupied Europe

By Stephen E. Ambrose

Truman

By Roy Jenkins

A Bundle from Britain

By Alistair Horne

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir

By John McCain

Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts

By David C. Engerman (Professor of History, Professor of History, Brandeis University)

Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader

By Archie Brown (Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford, and Professor of Politics, Director, University of Oxford)

The Vietnam War (Seminar Studies In History)

By Hall, Mitchell K.

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933

By Ellis W Hawley

The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism: 20th Anniversary Edition

By Daniel Bell

Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway

By Philip P. Mason

Diamonds: One Small Item, One Giant Impact

By Nikki van der Gaag

Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia

By Andrew Friedman

Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War: Documents and Essays

By Robert McMahon (The Ohio State University)

The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

By Lisa McGirr (Harvard University)