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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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The Johnstown Flood
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The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)
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The Guns of August
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The Origins of the Second World War
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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Thief in the Night
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Huey Long
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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The Edwardian Turn of Mind
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The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849
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Reconstruction after the Civil War
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3.94 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Caesar's Gallic War
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3.51 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956
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3.70 avg rating — 286 ratings
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The Riddle of Lester Maddox
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2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Men of Athens
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2.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Jennie
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Is Paris Burning?
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4.15 avg rating — 4,050 ratings
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Wallace: The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace
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4.05 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Forgotten Soldier
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4.39 avg rating — 11,952 ratings
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Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 2
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4.01 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Embattled Confederates: An Illustrated History of Southerners at War
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Reilly: Ace of Spies
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3.56 avg rating — 271 ratings
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The Burden of Sourthern History
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4.08 avg rating — 280 ratings
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The Destruction of Dresden
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4.02 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Life in a Medieval City
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3.84 avg rating — 3,855 ratings
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Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel (Galaxy Book)
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4.11 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Long Death
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4.27 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Coming Fury
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4.34 avg rating — 2,826 ratings
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Hellenosemitica
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The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
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4.54 avg rating — 7,541 ratings
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From Major Jordan's Diaries
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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787
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4.06 avg rating — 1,997 ratings
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America's Retreat From Victory
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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4.22 avg rating — 145,988 ratings
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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
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4.18 avg rating — 1,506 ratings
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France: The Tragic Years
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys
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3.32 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The American Way of Death Revisited
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3.97 avg rating — 2,601 ratings
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A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
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4.16 avg rating — 6,986 ratings
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Wellington: The Years of the Sword
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4.02 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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4.11 avg rating — 3,583 ratings
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The Kohler Strike: Union Violence and Administrative Law
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Frederick the Great: A Historical Profile
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3.58 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Best and the Brightest
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4.27 avg rating — 12,723 ratings
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My 21 Years in the White House
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The Climax of Rome
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3.71 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Paris in the Terror
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4.18 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Quest for Arthur's Britain
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Geoffrey Ashe (editor)
3.81 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History
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4.53 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Roosevelt Women
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Betty Boyd Caroli (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 287 ratings
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The World of the Phoenicians
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3.48 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Life in the Middle Ages
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Louis XIV and the Greatness of France
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3.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Victoria
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The Age of Napoleon
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Napoleon
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3.57 avg rating — 490 ratings
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The Making of the English Working Class
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4.21 avg rating — 3,665 ratings
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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
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4.29 avg rating — 3,026 ratings
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The Way of the Crusades
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3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
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