Books – American History

101 Changemakers: Rebels and Radicals (for students in grades 5-9) Edited by Michelle Bollinger and Dao X Tran

1491 By Charles C. Mann

A History of America in Ten Strikes By Erik Loomis

A People’s History of the Supreme Court By Peter Irons

A People’s History of the United States By Howard Zinn

Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865 By William K. Klingaman

American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush By Kevin Phillips

Apostles of Disunion By Charles B. Dew

Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire By Chalmers Johnson

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era (Haymarket) By Alex Cockburn

Dewey Defeats Truman By Thomas Mallon

Gay Resistance: The Hidden History By Sam Deaderick and Tamara Turner

Empire of Cotton, A Global History By Sven Beckert

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City By Greg Grandin

George Washington and the Founding of a Nation By Albert Marrin

Give me Liberty! An American History By Eric Foner

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America By Juan Gonzalez

Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law By James Q. Whitman

Jefferson’s Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism By Roger Wilkins

Freedom’s Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation By Elizabeth Regosin

Last Man Down: Ground Zero By Richard Picciotto

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson By Robert A. Caro

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson By Robert A. Caro

Migra A History of the U S Border Patrol Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and Hidden History of American Banking By Alice Echols

The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon By Anthony Summers

The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan By Rick Perlstein

The Merchant of Power: Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis By John F Wasik

This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy By Matthew Karp

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