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A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970

By Greta de Jong

The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U.S., and the Promise of a Better Future

By Maria Torres

Echoes of Fury: The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens and the Lives It Changed Forever

By Frank Parchman

The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

By Allan Brandt

Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative / David Brock.

By David Brock

Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy

By Stephen Macedo (Princeton University)

Homeland

By Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Francis Wheen

Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

By Philip Shenon

20th Century America: A Social and Political History

By David Goldfield, Carl Abbott, Jo Ann E. Argersinger, Peter H. Argersinger

Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr

By Gerald L. Posner

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

By George Packer

The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century

By David Ellwood (Senior Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopskins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna)

Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America

By Erika Lee (Director, Asian American Studies Program and Assoc, Director, University of Minnesota), Judy Yung (Professor Emerita of American Studies, Professor Emerita of American Studies, University of Californ...

Edward M. Kennedy: An Oral History

By Barbara A. Perry (White Burkett Miller Center Chair of Ethics and Institutions; Director, Presidential Studies; Co-Chair, Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center, White Burkett Miller Center Chair of Ethics and Institutions; Director, Pr...

Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency

By James Bamford

50 Things You'Re Not Supposed to Know - Volume 2

By Russ Kick

Pelican History of the U.S.a. Vol 6: Coming of Age: The United States During the 1920S And 1930S: v. 6 (The pelican history of the United States)

By McCoy, Donald

The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness

By Betsy Hartmann

Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile

By Frick Art & Historical Center

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power

By Ijeoma Oluo

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

By Thompson, Hunter S.

Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First

By Mona Charen

Too Close to the Falls

By Catherine Gildiner

Crossing the Postmodern Divide

By Albert Borgmann

King: The Life of Martin Luther King

By Jonathan Eig

In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America

By Pierce O'Donnell

Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA, 1850-200

By Vivienne Sanders

Access to History: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion 1945-1980

By Vivienne Sanders

Arthur Ashe: A Life

By Raymond Arsenault