American History
The stories of America unfold through pivotal moments, legendary figures, and the complex forces that shaped a nation - from Revolutionary spies and Civil War commanders to modern presidents and cultural transformations. These compelling accounts illuminate the triumphs, struggles, and decisions that echo through time, revealing how determined individuals and powerful ideas have steered the American experiment.
American History Book Summaries
Impounded
Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
History
Photography
World War II
Shot All to Hell
Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape
History
True Crime
American History
Liberty and Tyranny
A Conservative Manifesto
Politics
History
Philosophy
To Hell on a Fast Horse
Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
History
Biography
Westerns
The Big Burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
History
American History
Nature
Barnum
An American Life
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Sea of Glory
America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
History
American History
Adventure
Black AF History
The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
History
Race
Politics
Killing the Dream
James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
History
American History
True Crime
The Second Amendment
History
Politics
Law
America Last
The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
Politics
History
American History
Give Your Heart to the Hawks
History
American History
Westerns
The Long Alliance
The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama
Politics
History
Biography
Renegade
The Making of a President
Politics
Biography
History
The Case That Never Dies
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
True Crime
Crime
History
Bunk
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
History
Psychology
Sociology
Transaction Man
The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
Economics
History
Business
A Patriot's History of the United States
From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
History
American History
Politics
Days of Rage
America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
History
Politics
American History
These Truths
A History of the United States
History
Politics
American History
The Infernal Machine
A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
History
True Crime
Crime
Buckley
The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
Biography
Politics
History
Chesapeake
Historical Fiction
Historical
Classics
Franchise
The Golden Arches in Black America
History
Business
Race
Hellhound on His Trail
The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
History
True Crime
Biography
The Original Black Elite
Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
History
Race
Biography
Trail of Tears
The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
History
Native American
American History
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
Politics
History
Philosophy
Authoritarian Nightmare
Trump and His Followers
Politics
Psychology
History
The Gales of November
The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
History
American History
Historical
The Pioneers
The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
History
American History
Historical
They Came Before Columbus
The African Presence in Ancient America
History
Africa
Race
The Last Days of Night
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Historical
After the Fall
Being American in the World We've Made
Politics
History
Memoir
Code Warriors
NSA's Code Breakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
History
Espionage
Politics
White Rage
The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
History
Race
Politics
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
History
Indigenous
Social Justice
The Secret Token
Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
History
American History
Mystery
Arsenals of Folly
The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
History
Science
Politics
A Protest History of the United States
History
Politics
American History
Spectacle
The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
History
Biography
Race
Slavery by Another Name
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
History
Race
Politics
Southern Horrors and Other Writings
The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
History
Race
Essays
The South Was Right!
History
Civil War
American History
Sex in the Heartland
History
Sexuality
American History
The Price of Greatness
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
History
Politics
American History
American Oligarchs
The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power
Politics
History
Biography
At the Hands of Persons Unknown
The Lynching of Black America
History
Race
American History
Worse Than Slavery
Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
History
Race
African American
The Deadline
Essays
History
Politics
