American History


New Releases Tagged "American History"

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and the Pursuit of America's Enemies to the Ends of the Earth
Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Fever
Mary Coin
The Turncoat: Renegades of the Revolution
Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
A City Tossed and Broken, San Francisco, California, 1906: The Diary of Minnie Bonner (Dear America)
Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier

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  • Civil War Battlegrounds by Richard Sauers
    Civil War Battlegrounds: The Illustrated History of the War's Pivotal Battles and Campaigns
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    Release date: Apr 25, 2013
    Relive the historic battles of the Civil War in this comprehensive overview of all the key battle sites.

    Written by expert Civil War scholar Richard Sa…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: Apr 01 - Jun 01, 2013
    5 copies available, 641 people requesting
    Countries available: US
  • Begotten with Love by Jo Ann V. Glim
    Begotten with Love: Every Family Has Its Story
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    Release date: Feb 07, 2013
    Stemma Books, Ltd. is proud to present 5 autographed copies of debut author Jo Ann V. Glim's book BEGOTTEN: With Love for the goodreads May Giveaway!

    T…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: May 08 - Jun 07, 2013
    5 copies available, 253 people requesting
    Countries available: US
  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    The House Girl
    Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
    The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
    Columbine
    Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
    Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
    Sutton
    The Gods of Gotham
    Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
    America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't
    The Lions of Little Rock
    The Midwife of Hope River
    Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
    New York: The Novel
    Derivation Incognita by Diogenes VindexBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Jungle by Upton SinclairAmerican Crucible by Gary Gerstle
    AP US History Reading List
    36 books — 12 voters
    The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraGreat Maps of the Civil War by William J. MillerBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonWhy the South Lost the Civil War by Richard E. BeringerA Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
    U.S. Civil War
    30 books — 4 voters

    Many Thousands Gone by Ira BerlinThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynCourage to Dissent by Tomiko Brown-NaginNature's Metropolis by William CrononAcross the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
    The Bancroft Prize
    66 books — 5 voters
    More Than Petticoats by Gina KaufmannCalling This Place Home by Joan M. JensenPreserving the Family Farm by Mary C. NethBetween Memory and Reality by Jane Marie PedersonEntitled to Power by Katherine Jellison
    Rural Women's History
    8 books — 2 voters

    1776
    John Adams
    Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
    Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
    Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
    Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
    The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
    Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
    Truman
    American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
    His Excellency: George Washington
    Alexander Hamilton

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