20th Century U.S. History

American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-70

By Martin Staniland

The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

By Ira Berlin (University of Maryland College Park)

Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life

By Artur Domoslawski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Virago Book of Women and the Great War

By JOYCE MARLOW

Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb

By Susan Williams

The Battle of Hurtgen Forest (PB)

By Charles Whiting

America, 1870-1975

By J. O'Keeffe

Second World War in the Far East

By H. P. Willmott

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Arthur Meier Schlesinger

One Hundred Red Hot Years: Big Moments of the 20th Century

By Eduardo Galeano

Politics On Trial: Five Famous Trials of the 20th Century

By William Kunstler

Reinhold Niebuhr and His Circle of Influence

By Daniel F. Rice

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

The Woman's Hour

By Elaine Weiss

The Queen: The gripping true tale of a villain who changed history

By Josh Levin

Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War

By Kevin Wilson

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War

By Alistair Cooke

A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958

By Alessandro Brogi

Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

By David Leonhardt

Let Every Nation Know: John F. Kennedy in His Own Words

Madam Secretary: A Memoir

By Madeleine Albright, Bill Woodward

The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia

By Mike Dash

Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right

By Benjamin Balint

Pearl Harbor: An Illustrated History

By Dan Van der Vat

And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank

By Oney, Steve

The Invisible Wall: Germans and Jews: A Personal Exploration

By Blumenthal, W. Michael

A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust

By David S. Wyman