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American History

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#2
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  • Isabel Wilkerson
4.5371 reads
#3
John Adams
John Adams
  • David McCullough
4.3572 reads
#4
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  • David Grann
4.13344 reads
#5
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
  • Sarah Vowell
428 reads
#6
Washington: A Life
Washington: A Life
  • Ron Chernow
4.3840 reads
#7
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
  • Robert A. Caro
4.7652 reads
#8
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
  • Jane Jacobs
4.0931 reads
#9
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
  • Rick Perlstein
3.8623 reads
#10
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
  • Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
  • Laural Merlington
4.4225 reads
#11
Cover 8

Conquering Gotham

Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
  • Jill Jonnes
00 reads
#12
Cover 7

Boss Tweed

Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York
  • Kenneth D. Ackerman
00 reads
#13
The Path to Power
The Path to Power
  • Robert A. Caro
4.6520 reads
#14
Grant
Grant
  • Ron Chernow
4.4641 reads
#15
The Wise Men
The Wise Men
  • Walter Isaacson
43 reads
#16
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
  • Robert J. Gordon
54 reads
#17
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America
  • Sam Roberts
00 reads
#18
The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
  • Sean Wilentz
31 read
#19
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
  • Ron Chernow
4.37126 reads
#20
The Bully Pulpit
The Bully Pulpit
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin
45 reads
#21
The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    00 reads
    #22
    Cover 5

    History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson

    History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson
    • Henry Adams
    00 reads
    #23
    No Ordinary Time
    No Ordinary Time
    • Doris Kearns Goodwin
    4.57 reads
    #24
    Lincoln
    Lincoln
    • David Herbert Donald
    46 reads
    #25
    1776
    1776
    • David McCullough
    4.05106 reads
    #26
    The Wilderness Warrior
    The Wilderness Warrior
    • Douglas Brinkley
    4.333 reads
    #27
    Traitor to His Class
    Traitor to His Class
    • H. W. Brands
    3.833 reads
    #28
    Nothing to Fear
    Nothing to Fear
    • Adam Cohen
    01 read
    #29
    Titan
    Titan
    • Ron Chernow
    4.0234 reads
    #30
    Embers of War
    Embers of War
    • Fredrik Logevall
    00 reads
    #31
    Bush
    Bush
    • Jean Edward Smith
    41 read
    #32
    The Wright Brothers
    The Wright Brothers
    • David McCullough
    4.156 reads
    #33
    Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
    Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
    • John Sedgwick
    51 read
    #34
    George F. Kennan
    George F. Kennan
    • John Lewis Gaddis
    00 reads
    #35
    The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80s
    The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80s
    • Paul Slansky
    00 reads
    #36
    The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
    The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
    • Joseph J. Ellis
    4.0610 reads
    #37
    Cover 3

    Whistlestop

    Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History
    • John Dickerson
    31 read
    #38
    Assassination Vacation
    Assassination Vacation
    • Sarah Vowell
    3.9845 reads
    #39
    Cover 6

    The Hawk and the Dove

    The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
    • Nicholas Thompson
    00 reads
    #40
    Boom Town
    Boom Town
    • Sam Anderson
    4.176 reads
    #41
    The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • Martin Luther King Jr.
    4.569 reads
    #42
    Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
    Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
    • Dean Acheson
    01 read
    #43
    A Land So Strange
    A Land So Strange
    • Andrés Reséndez
    4.173 reads
    #44
    Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure
    Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure
    • Julia Flynn Siler
    00 reads
    #45
    Cover 3

    Hawaii's Story

    Hawaii's Story
    • Liliuokalani
    51 read
    #46
    Gotham
    Gotham
    • Edwin G. Burrows
    • Mike Wallace
    51 read
    #47
    Henry Clay
    Henry Clay
    • Robert V. Remini
    00 reads
    #48
    Eisenhower : in War and Peace
    Eisenhower : in War and Peace
    • Jean Edward Smith
    44 reads
    #49
    Grant
    Grant
    • Jean Edward Smith
    3.52 reads
    #50
    Empires of Light
    Empires of Light
    • Jill Jonnes
    45 reads
    #51
    The Rise of American Democracy
    The Rise of American Democracy
    • Sean Wilentz
    01 read
    #52
    The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
    The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
    • Scott Miller
    42 reads
    #53
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    • Frederick Douglass
    4.1797 reads
    #54
    The land of open graves
    The land of open graves
    • Jason De León
    53 reads
    #55
    What the Eyes Don't See
    What the Eyes Don't See
    • Mona Hanna-Attisha
    4.334 reads
    #56
    Cover 0

    Perilous Times

    Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism
    • Geoffrey R. Stone
    00 reads
    #57
    The Partly Cloudy Patriot
    The Partly Cloudy Patriot
    • Sarah Vowell
    4.0429 reads
    #58
    Imbeciles
    Imbeciles
    • Adam Cohen
    42 reads
    #59
    The Wordy Shipmates
    The Wordy Shipmates
    • Sarah Vowell
    3.7425 reads
    #60
    The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
    The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
    • Jesse Eisinger
    3.55 reads
    #61
    California: A History
    California: A History
    • Kevin Starr
    42 reads
    #62
    Cover 6

    California

    California: An Intimate History
    • Gertrude Atherton
    00 reads
    #63
    Unfamiliar Fishes
    Unfamiliar Fishes
    • Sarah Vowell
    423 reads
    #64
    Empire of the Summer Moon
    Empire of the Summer Moon
    • S. C. Gwynne
    4.0235 reads
    #65
    Barracoon
    Barracoon
    • Zora Neale Hurston
    4.1123 reads
    #66
    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
    • Michelle Alexander
    4.52139 reads
    #67
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    • Malcolm X
    4.49132 reads
    #68
    A Mercy
    A Mercy
    • Toni Morrison
    3.9317 reads
    #69
    Imperial San Francisco
    Imperial San Francisco
    • Gray Brechin
    21 read
    #70
    The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
    The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
    • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    00 reads
    #71
    The Fourth Part of the World
    The Fourth Part of the World
    • Toby Lester
    00 reads
    #72
    Cover 7

    New York Burning

    New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
    • Jill Lepore
    00 reads
    #73
    These Truths: A History of the United States
    These Truths: A History of the United States
    • Jill Lepore
    4.2430 reads
    #74
    The name of war
    The name of war
    • Jill Lepore
    3.53 reads
    #75
    Cover 6

    Empire Express

    Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
    • David Haward Bain
    00 reads
    #76
    Kill Anything That Moves
    Kill Anything That Moves
    • Nick Turse
    4.675 reads
    #77
    Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
    Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
    • Frances FitzGerald
    01 read
    #78
    Between the World and Me
    Between the World and Me
    • Ta-Nehisi Coates
    4.54414 reads
    #79
    We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
    We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
    • Ta-Nehisi Coates
    4.5549 reads
    #80
    One Nation Under God
    One Nation Under God
    • Kevin Kruse
    3.54 reads
    #81
    Cover 2

    Young Radicals

    Young Radicals
    • Jeremy McCarter
    00 reads
    #82
    The Story of America: Essays on Origins
    The Story of America: Essays on Origins
    • Jill Lepore
    00 reads
    #83
    Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
    Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
    • Catherine Clinton
    01 read
    #84
    The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
    The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
    • Edmund Morris
    4.1420 reads
    #85
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
    • Jane Sherron De Hart
    42 reads
    #86
    Polk
    Polk
    • Walter R. Borneman
    3.335 reads
    #87
    The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
    The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
    • Randy Shilts
    43 reads
    #88
    American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution
    American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution
    • A. Roger Ekirch
    00 reads
    #89
    The Bodies in Person: An Account of Civilian Casualties in American Wars
    The Bodies in Person: An Account of Civilian Casualties in American Wars
    • Nick McDonell
    00 reads
    #90
    Destiny of the Republic
    Destiny of the Republic
    • Candice Millard
    4.4134 reads
    #91
    War on Peace
    War on Peace
    • Ronan Farrow
    4.4513 reads
    #92
    How the hippies saved physics
    How the hippies saved physics
    • David Kaiser
    00 reads
    #93
    Bowling Alone
    Bowling Alone
    • Robert D. Putnam
    411 reads
    #94
    Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
    Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
    • Emily Bazelon
    4.57 reads
    #95
    The Underground Railroad
    The Underground Railroad
    • Colson Whitehead
    4.06326 reads
    #96
    The Beat Hotel
    The Beat Hotel
    • Barry Miles
    00 reads
    #97
    How Was It For You?
    How Was It For You?
    • Virginia Nicholson
    00 reads
    #98
    Natural and Moral History of the Indies
    Natural and Moral History of the Indies
    • José de Acosta
    00 reads
    #99
    Cover 0

    Our Man in New York

    Our Man in New York: The British Plot to Bring America into the Second World War
    • Henry Hemming
    00 reads
    #100
    Cover 8

    From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932

    From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States
    • David A. Hounshell
    00 reads
    #101
    There There
    There There
    • Tommy Orange
    3.94196 reads