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A Day in the Life of America: Photographed by 200 of the World's Leading Photo Journalists on One Day, May 2, 1986

By Rick Smolan, Professor David W Cohen (Smith College, Massachusetts)

1968 the Year That Changed America

By Time Magazine

The Wright Brothers

By David McCullough

The Bedford Boys: One Small Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice

By Alex Kershaw

Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy during the Cold War

By Martin Folly

United States and World War Two: The Awakening Giant

By Martin H. Folly

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

By Charles Murray

Great Expectations

By Landon Jones

Martin Luther King

By A. Noble

... But Seriously, Folks!: More Cartoons

By Pat Oliphant

The American Look: Fashion, Sportswear and the Image of Women in 1930s and 1940s New York

By Rebecca Arnold

President Ronnie

By William E. Maloney

The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off the Coast of Devon in 1944 - And the Man Who Discovered Their True Story

By Ken Small, Mark Rogerson

Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest

By Matthew C. Ehrlich

Ireland In The 20th Century

By Tim Pat Coogan

The Clinton Scandals and the Politics of Image Restoration

By Joseph R. Blaney, William L. Benoit

Truman

By David McCullough

Reporting World War II Vol. 2 (LOA #78): American Journalism 1944-1946

By Samuel Hynes, Anne Matthews, Nancy Caldwell Sorel, Roger J. Spiller

The Oil Kings: How the US, Iran and Saudi-Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East

By Andrew Scott Cooper

Small Town Talk

By Barney Hoskyns

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

By William Poundstone

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By David Grann

America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe

By Volker R. Berghahn

US Army handbook, 1939-1945

By George Forty

Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

By Eric Schlosser

The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa

By Jeremy Keenan

South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

By Hilde F. Johnson

15 Minutes: General Curtis Lemay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation

By L Douglas Keeney

LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay

By Warren Kozak