American Studies 146 books by Spiritomb

Fat Shame

ByAmy Erdman Farrell

2011 • 1 Reader • 209 pages

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

ByDrew Gilpin Faust

2008 • 29 Readers • 346 pages • 3.8

We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance

ByJon Fasman

2021 • 1 Reader • 288 pages • 3

Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America

ByJohn J. Fialka

2003 • 1 Reader • 392 pages

Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History

ByEric Foner

2017 • 1 Reader

The Second Founding

ByEric Foner

2019 • 16 Readers • 3

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

ByRobert H. Frank

2016 • 5 Readers • 187 pages • 4

The Cult of the Constitution

ByMary Anne Franks

2019 • 5 Readers • 272 pages

#10

The Age of Edison

ByErnest Freeberg

1 Reader

#11

The History of Policing America: From Militias and Military to the Law Enforcement of Today

ByLaurence Armand French

2018 • 1 Reader • 273 pages

#12

Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy

ByK. Healan Gaston

2019 • 1 Reader • 361 pages

#13

Culture of Fear

ByBarry Glassner

2010 • 8 Readers • 314 pages • 4

#14

Anti-intellectualism in American Life.

ByRichard Hofstadter

1963 • 43 Readers • 434 pages • 4.4

#15

Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea

ByJoshua Horwitz,Casey Anderson

2009 • 1 Reader • 286 pages

#16

American Radicals

ByHolly Jackson

2019 • 2 Readers • 402 pages

#17

Operation Paperclip

ByAnnie Jacobsen

2014 • 57 Readers • 832 pages • 4.3

#18

Incidents in the life of a slave girl

ByHarriet Ann Jacobs

1861 • 78 Readers • 108 pages • 3.9

#19

American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country

ByJack Jenkins

2 Readers

#20

When Affirmative Action Was White

ByIra Katznelson

2005 • 14 Readers • 272 pages • 4

#21

Stamped

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

ByIbram X. Kendi

2016 • 307 Readers • 4.5

#22

The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech

ByJeff Kosseff

2022 • 1 Reader • 328 pages

#23

One Nation Under God

ByKevin Kruse

2015 • 25 Readers • 386 pages • 4

#24

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

ByKevin M. Kruse

2005 • 3 Readers • 345 pages • 4

#25

Myth America

ByKevin M. Kruse,Julian E. Zelizer

2022 • 7 Readers • 400 pages • 3.7

#26

The Making of Asian America: A History

ByErika Lee

2015 • 31 Readers • 528 pages • 3.9

#27

The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause"

ByJames W. Loewen

2010 • 1 Reader

#28

Lies across America

ByJames W. Loewen

1999 • 15 Readers • 480 pages • 4

#29

They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School

ByK. Tsianina Lomawaima

1994 • 1 Reader • 244 pages

#30

A History of America in Ten Strikes

ByErik Loomis

2018 • 10 Readers • 288 pages • 4.5

#31

The Meritocracy Trap

ByDaniel Markovits

2019 • 15 Readers • 448 pages • 4

#32

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement

ByPeter Matthiessen(Afterword),Martin Garbus(Afterword)

1983 • 14 Readers • 688 pages • 4.7

#33

An American Plague

ByJim Murphy

2003 • 10 Readers • 165 pages • 3

#34

Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness

ByMaureen O'Connell

1 Reader

#35

The Guarded Gate

ByDaniel Okrent

2019 • 17 Readers • 496 pages • 4

#36

Abortion Rites: A Social History of Abortion in America

ByMarvin Olasky

1992 • 1 Reader

#37

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

ByIjeoma Oluo(Author, Narrator)

2020 • 164 Readers • 4.3

#38

How the pro-choice movement saved America

ByCristina Page

4 Readers

#39

Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform

ByDavid Pettinicchio

2019 • 1 Reader • 354 pages

#40

Bad Money

ByKevin Phillips

2008 • 2 Readers • 256 pages • 2

#41

A Problem from Hell

BySamantha Power

2002 • 36 Readers • 620 pages • 3.8

#42

Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America

ByPolly J. Price

1 Reader

#43

When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface

ByLeslie J. Reagan

1996 • 1 Reader • 432 pages

#44

America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination

ByJohn Rhodehamel

2021 • 1 Reader • 481 pages

#45

When General Grant expelled the Jews

ByJonathan D. Sarna

1 Reader

#46

Unworthy Republic

ByClaudio Saunt

2020 • 21 Readers • 416 pages • 4.3

#47

The Democrats: A Critical History

ByLance Selfa

2008 • 3 Readers • 306 pages

#48

Palgrave Studies in Oral History

Detained without Cause: Muslims' Stories of Detention and Deportation in America after 9/11

ByIrum Shiekh

2011 • 1 Reader • 258 pages

#49

Conduct Unbecoming: Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military

ByRandy Shilts

1993 • 1 Reader • 1,095 pages

#50

The Color of Law

ByRichard Rothstein

2017 • 312 Readers • 368 pages • 4.4

#51

How the Word Is Passed

ByClint Smith

2021 • 182 Readers • 336 pages • 4.8

#52

Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders

ByDenise A. Spellberg

2013 • 416 pages

#53

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

ByIlan Stavans(Editor),Josh Lambert(Editor)

2020 • 3 Readers • 3

#54

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans

ByRonald Takaki

1989 • 9 Readers • 570 pages • 5

#55

The Call of the Weird : Travels in American Subcultures

ByLouis Theroux

2005 • 25 Readers • 290 pages • 3.3

#56

The Color of Compromise

ByJemar Tisby

2019 • 43 Readers • 256 pages • 4.8

#57

Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States

ByJames W. Trent

1990 • 1 Reader • 394 pages

#58

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

ByDavid Treuer

2019 • 55 Readers • 530 pages • 4.5

#59

Under the Skin

ByLinda Villarosa

2022 • 28 Readers • 288 pages • 4

#60

The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory

ByJesse Walker

2012 • 10 Readers • 446 pages • 2.5

#61

The Best Land Under Heaven

ByMichael Wallis

2017 • 3 Readers • 496 pages • 4

#62

Hijacking History: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why It Matters

ByKathleen Wellman

2021 • 2 Readers

#63

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

ByIsabel Wilkerson

2010 • 423 Readers • 642 pages • 4.5

#64

The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism

ByPaul D. Miller

1 Reader

#65

Different Mirror

ByRonald Takaki

1993 • 10 Readers • 428 pages • 5

#66

The Religion of White Supremacy in the United States

ByEric Weed

2017 • 1 Reader • 177 pages

#67

Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate

ByAlexandra Minna Stern

2019 • 4 Readers • 192 pages • 4

#68

Morristown: The Darkest Winter of the Revolutionary War and the Plot to Kidnap George Washington

ByWilliam Hazelgrove

2021 • 1 Reader • 273 pages

#69

White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall

ByReece Jones

2021 • 5 Readers • 272 pages

#70

Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments

ByRoger C. Hartley

2021 • 1 Reader • 276 pages

#71

First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity

ByMaurizio Valsania

2022 • 2 Readers • 416 pages

#72

Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America

ByFranklin Foer

2014 • 1 Reader

#73

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

ByImani Perry

2022 • 83 Readers • 464 pages • 3.9

#74

American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea

ByIan Tyrrell

2021 • 1 Reader • 284 pages

#75

Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920

ByCharles Reagan Wilson

1982 • 1 Reader • 279 pages

#76

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

ByC. Vann Woodward,William S. McFeely

1955 • 10 Readers • 272 pages • 4

#77

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

ByDavid R. Roediger

2005 • 5 Readers • 3

#78

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

ByTa-Nehisi Coates

2017 • 158 Readers • 401 pages • 4.4

#79

Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness

ByElizabeth D. Samet

2021 • 4 Readers • 368 pages

#80

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

ByRobert D. Putnam

2015 • 18 Readers • 386 pages • 4.3

#81

After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It

ByWill Bunch

3 Readers • 3

#82

Iron Cages : Race and Culture in 19th-Century America

ByRonald Takaki

1979 • 1 Reader

#83

Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy

BySuzanne Mettler,Robert C. Lieberman

2020 • 1 Reader

#84

The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

ByAndrew L. Seidel,Susan Jacoby

2019 • 1 Reader

#85

Founding Myths

ByRay Raphael

2014 • 434 pages

#86

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

ByTony Horwitz

1999 • 46 Readers • 425 pages • 4.1

#87

This Earthly Frame

ByDavid Sehat

2022 • 1 Reader • 344 pages • 5

#88

Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular

ByDavid A. Hollinger

1 Reader

#89

A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America

ByMark Caldwell

1999 • 3 Readers

#90

Garbage Land

ByElizabeth Royte

2005 • 1 Reader • 235 pages

#91

The Tyranny of the Meritocracy

ByLani Guinier

2016 • 3 Readers • 176 pages

#92

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

ByAlissa Quart

2023 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#93

O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner"

ByMark Clague

2022 • 1 Reader • 3

#94

I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States

ByPaul Elliott Johnson

2 Readers

#95

The Destructionists

ByDana Milbank

7 Readers • 4

#96

Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Misguided Wars

ByAndrew J. Bacevich(editor),Daniel A. Sjursen(Editor)

2022 • 1 Reader

#97

The land of open graves

ByJason De León

2015 • 8 Readers • 384 pages • 5

#98

Constitutional myths

ByRay Raphael

#99

The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord

ByRay Raphael

2002 • 1 Reader • 273 pages

#100

Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America

ByMichael Ruhlman

2017 • 19 Readers • 288 pages • 3.4

#101

Wild horse country

ByDavid Philipps

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