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A Bundle from Britain

By Alistair Horne

Truman

By Roy Jenkins

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

By Stephen E. Ambrose

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

By Glenn T. Eskew

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)

New Deal Photography. USA 1935-1943

By Peter Walther

The Algiers Motel Incident

American Exceptionalism

By Deborah L. Madsen (Chair of American Literature)

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

By Gary Sterne, Don Mann

LOOKING FORWARD

By Unknown

An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King

By William F Pepper

One Summer: America, 1927

By Bill Bryson

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

By Michael R Beschloss

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

By Robert S. Norris

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

By Leon F. Litwack

Man of the Hour

By Jennet Conant

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

By Gino Segre, Bettina Hoerlin

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

By Paul Boyer

Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea

By Jeffrey T. Richelson

20th Century Personalities

By Martin Howard, Eleanor Stillwell, Random House Value Publishing

Blackout

By James Goodman

High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945-1999

By Erik M. Conway

Events That Shaped the Century

By Time-Life Books, Buzz Aldrin

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

By Diane McWhorter

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

By Jason Fagone

Dallas: 1963: The Road to the Kennedy Assassination

By Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis

A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America

By Greg Robinson

"Life": Our Century of Change - America in Pictures, 1900-2000

By Richard B. Stolley

Birmingham Foot Soldiers: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement

By Nickolas Patterson

Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project

By Ruth H. Howes, Caroline Herzenberg