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Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

By Charles Thorpe

Yanks and Limeys: Alliance Warfare in the Second World War

By Niall Barr

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

By Steven F. Lawson

No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture

By Andrew Ross

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

By Branch

The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Opposition

By Joel Schalit

Caesars of the Wilderness

By Peter Charles Newman

i-have-a-dream

By martin-luther-king-jr

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

By William Inboden, III

Religion and American Politics

By Mark A. Noll

The Battle of Midway

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

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

By Michael Hiltzik

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

By Gregg Herken

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

By Hitchens, Christopher

Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost - And How It Can Find Its Way Back

By Mickey Edwards

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

By Cynthia C. Kelly, Richard Rhodes

American Aviation: The First Half Century

By David Willis, Richard Molloy

Big Trouble

By J.A. Lukas

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

By Nathan Ward

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

By Ted Sorensen

What Went Wrong at Enron: Everyone's Guide to the Largest Bankruptcy in U.S.History

By Peter C. Fusaro, Ross M. Miller

American Betrayal

By Diana West

On the Freedom Side: How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History

By Wesley C. Hogan

The Minutes of the Rainbow Circle

By Michael Freeden

War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring

By Edmund Russell (Hall Distinguished Professor of US History, University of Virginia)

Three New Deals

By Wolfgang Schivelbusch

The Civil Rights Movement

By Jack E. Davis (University of Florida)

American Radicalism

By Daniel Pope (University of Oregan)

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

By Gary Gerstle (Paul Mellon Professor of American History, Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge)

Alistair Cooke's America

By Alistair Cooke