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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

By Greg Grandin (New York University)

The Florida Life of Thomas Edison

By Michele Wehrwein Albion

No Place to Hide, 1946-84

By David Bradley, Jerome B. Wiesner

Plan of Attack: The Road to War

By Woodward, Bob

The Lost Diary of Annie Oakley’s Wild West Stagehand

By Dickinson, Clive

The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and its World Impact

By Jonathan I. Israel (Princeton University, New Jersey)

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

By Michael Holroyd

The Few: July-October 1940

By Alex Kershaw

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics

By L. Carl. Brown

Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church

By Richard Firth Green

The Book Of Life

By Sojourner Truth

From Protest to Challenge, Volume 5: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1990: Nadir and Resurgence, 1964-1979

By Thomas G. Karis, Gail M. Gerhart

The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

By Heath Hardage Lee

Scream of Eagles

By Robert K Wilcox

Twelve Days: Revolution 1956. How the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet masters

By Sebestyen, Victor

One Bullet Away: The making of a US Marine Officer

By Nathaniel Fick

1916: The Easter Rising

By Tim Pat Coogan

American Cipher: One Soldier's Nightmare in the Afghanistan War

By Matt Farwell, Michael Ames

A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power

By Professor James Walvin

A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers

By Jeremy Black

Don't Shoot The Clowns: War and the Circus in Iraq

By Jo Wilding

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

By Clint Smith

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By Mike Davis, Robert Morrow

Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump

By Liz Cheney

Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

By Viviana A. Zelizer

Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

By David Garland (Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University)

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By J. Jackson

Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi

By Timothy R. Pauketat

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq

By Emma Sky

The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America

By Jonathan Prude