American History
From the founding fathers to modern America — the story of a nation
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John Lewis
A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
Thomas H. Naylor
How Overconsumption Is Killing Us and How to Fight Back. Berrett-Koehler, 2014.
Frank Abagnale
The True Story of a Real Fake. Broadway Books, 2002.
William M. LeoGrande
The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
New Arrivals
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David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Deborah Blum
Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Penguin Books, 2010.
Kate Moore
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
Jasmine Brown
The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Olivia Campbell
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
Mark Miodownik
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
Tom Vanderbilt
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Mark Pendergrast
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
David Goldblatt
A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Neil Price
A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.
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Kavitha A. Davidson
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Thomas E. Ricks
What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. Harper, 2020.
John David Turner
A Global History of Economic Bubbles. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Nikil Saval
A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.
Margot Lee Shetterly
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
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Thomas H. Naylor
How Overconsumption Is Killing Us and How to Fight Back. Berrett-Koehler, 2014.
Kavitha A. Davidson
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
John Lewis
A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
Frank Abagnale
The True Story of a Real Fake. Broadway Books, 2002.
Nikil Saval
A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
Peter Kornbluh
The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Rebecca Rupp
Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
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