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U.S. History (English)
This collection contains: 35 books
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1776 (English)
America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement,...
African American History: a Very Short Introduction (English)
What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the...
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream (English)
They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for...
American Business History: a Very Short Introduction (English)
By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business...
American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume1) (English)
A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
American Cultural History: a Very Short Introduction (English)
The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D....
American History: a Very Short Introduction (English)
This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S....
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 (English)
New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding...
American Legal History: a Very Short Introduction (English)
This Very Short Introduction pivots on an expansive definition of law and the relationship of law...
American Slavery: a Very Short Introduction (English)
Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a...
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (English)
2015 Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the...
Asian American History: a Very Short Introduction (English)
A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated,...
A Young People's History of the United States: Revised and Updated (English)
With new contributions by Latinx scholar Ed Morales and adapter Rebecca Stefoff based on newly...
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (English)
The landmark, bestselling account of the crimes against American Indians during the 19th century,...
Courage Has No Color - The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers (English)
"An exceptionally well-researched, lovingly crafted, and important tribute to unsung American...
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War (English)
Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of...
North American Indians: a Very Short Introduction (English)
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people...
Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War (English)
Mathew B. Brady was already a famous photographer by the time the Civil War began. But the war...
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American (English)
Frederick Douglass's fiery speeches made him one of the most renowned and popular agitators of his...
Religion in America: a Very Short Introduction (English)
It's hard to think of a single aspect of American culture, past or present, in which religion has...
Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (English)
The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian...
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (English)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The...
The American South: a Very Short Introduction (English)
The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its...
The American West: a Very Short Introduction (English)
Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a...
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (English)
ONE OF TIME 'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the searing pages...
The Civil Rights Movement: a Very Short Introduction (English)
The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth...
The Cold War: A New History (English)
"Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written." — The Boston...
The Great Depression and the New Deal: a Very Short Introduction (English)
The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the...
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy (English)
"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and...
The U. S. Civil War: a Very Short Introduction (English)
More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil...
The U. S. Constitution: a Very Short Introduction (English)
Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's...
The U. S. Supreme Court: a Very Short Introduction (English)
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning...
The Vietnam War (English)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . Based on the celebrated PBS television series, the complete text of an...
The Wright Brothers (English)
The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the...
