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David Reamer

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David Castillo

Sarah Porter

Juan Sebastián Macías Díaz

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Cover American While Black African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship

by Christopher Ndubuizu

by William S. L. Dinneen

by Alexandra Tipps

by Emma Fisk

by Yohad Zacarías

by Sarah Porter

by Ilan Palacios Avineri

by Maria Mercedes Gómez

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by David Conrad

by Joseph A. Ledford and Ashlyn Hand

by Hannah McClain

by John Gleb

By Erin Kelleher

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by Cindia Arango López

by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

by Mark Ravina

by H. W. Brands

by Daniel Silva

by Yohad Zacarías

by Danielle Sanchez

by Victor Angbah

by Heidi Tinsman

by Gaal Almor

by Emily Cantwell

by Francis Russell

by Brandon James Render, Jon Buchleiter, and Sarah Porter

Book cover of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

By Jorge Cañizares Esguerra

by David Conrad

by Nathan Stone

by Yunfei Shang

by Isabelle Headrick

by Shery Chanis

by Haley Schroer

Master of the Game

by Daniel J. Samet

Review of The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World (2020)

by Atar David

Review of Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (2006)

by Jon Buchleiter

Review of The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire (2013)

by Ben Wright

The Dawn of Everything

by Sumit Guha

by Brittany Erwin

Review of Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism (2021)

by Jon Buchleiter

by Clifton Sorrell III

The End of Ambition : The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era

by Bryan Port

The Approaching Storm

by John Gleb

by Candice Lyons

Hungry for Revolution

by Gabrielle Esparza

Review of Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (2018)

by Jian Gao

by Brittany Erwin

by Juliana Márquez

by Sarah Porter

by Brittany Erwin

Three Cornered War

by Gwendolyn Lockman

The Good Immigrants

by Christopher Ndubuizu

Optics of the State

by Rodrigo Salido Moulinié

by Nathan Stone

by Atar David

by Alexander Chaparro-Silva

Fifth Sun

by Camila Ordorica Bracamontes

Book cover of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science by Christopher C. Sellers

by Khristián Méndez Aguirre

by Camila Ordorica Bracamontes

by David Rooney and Felipe Vilo Muñoz

by Ilan Palacios Avineri

Memory's Turn

by Gabrielle Esparza

by Yoav Di-Capua

Book cover of Greedy Bastards: One City's Texas-Size Struggle to Avoid a Financial Crisis by Sheryl Sculley

by Craig Pedersen

by Rafael David Nieto-Bello

by Brittany Erwin

The Frigid Golden Age

by Raymond Hyser

by Brittany Erwin

Book cover of Paris-Capital of Modernity by David Harvey

by Isabelle Headrick

Book cover of Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Paulina L. Alberto

by Gabrielle Esparza

by Atar David and Rodrigo Salido Moulinié

by Timothy Vilgiate

Afterlives of Terror Cover

by Camila Ordorica Bracamontes

by Rodrigo Salido Moulinié

by Ben Wright

by Timothy Vilgiate

by David Rooney

by Brittany Erwin

by Amina Marzouk Chouchene

by Carter Barnett

by Brittany Erwin

by Atar David, Khristián Méndez Aguirre, and Rafael David Nieto-Bello

by Tiana Wilson

by Tiana Wilson

by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

by Brittany Erwin

by Alexander Chaparro-Silva

by Ilan Palacios Avineri

by Jon Buchleiter

by Jessica Sánchez Flores

by Sheena Cox 

by Rodrigo Salido Moulinié

by Alina Scott

by Ashley Nelcy García

By Micaela Valadez

by Ashley Garcia

by Atar David

by Mary Neuburger

By Alejandra C. Garza

by Carter Barnett

by Horus Tan

by Kameron Dunn

by Denise Gomez

by Ben Wright

by Amina Marzouk Chouchene

By Isabelle Headrick

by Lilya Kaganovsky

by Alina Scott

by Amina Marzouk Chouchene

By Jonathan Parker

By Tiana Wilson

By Jesse Ritner

By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

By  David Whitehouse

by Samuel Ginsburg

By Kellianne King

by Jimena Perry

By Signe Peterson Fourmy

By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

by Joan Neuberger

By Namrata B. Kanchan

By Marcus Golding

By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

By Isabelle Headrick

By Marisol Bayona Roman

By Micaela Valadez

by Brittany Erwin

By Steven Richter

By Marcus Golding

By Bryan Sitzes

By Jesse Ritner

By Abisai Perez

by Horus T'an

by Marcus Golding

by Tiana Wilson

by Marcus Golding

by Diego A. Godoy

by Marcus Golding

by Ashley Garcia

by Marcus Golding

by Paula O'Donnell

by Chris Babits

by Montserrat Madariaga

by Micaela Valadez

by Abisai Zamarripa Pérez

by Charalampos Minasidis

by Ashley Garcia

by Brandon Render

by John Munro

by John Carranza

by Brittany Erwin

by Augusta Dell'omo

Book cover of Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union by Michael David-Fox

by Stuart Finkel

Book cover of Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo

by Diana Heredia López

by Tiana Wilson

by Luritta DuBois

by Chris Babits

by Yael Schacher

Book cover of Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert

by Edward Watson

Book cover of By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 by Michael J. Green

by Jonathan Hunt

by Nathan Stone

Book cover of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by Juliana Barr

by Justin Heath

Book cover of Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser

by Haley Schroer

by Brittany Erwin

by Gajendra Singh

Book cover of Angela Merkel: Europe's Most Influential Leader by Matthew Qvortrup

by Augusta Dell'Omo

Book cover of De tolk van Java by Alfred Birney

by Paul Doolan

Book cover of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

by Natalie Cincotta

By Ben Holmes

By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

By Madeleine Olson

By Rebecca Johnston

By Ben Weiss

by Aden Knaap

By Kelly Douma

By Isaac McQuistion

By Jacqueline Jones

by Mary Neuburger and Ian Goodale

by Peter Kunze

By John Carranza

by Ronald Davis

By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

By Ann Twinam

By Natalie Cincotta

By Diana Bolsinger

By Mark Sheaves

By Cynthia Talbot

By David Rahimi

by Clay Katsky

By Augusta Dell'Omo

By Emily Whalen

by Madeline Hsu

By Mark Sheaves

By Clay Katsky

Great Books on US Theatre History

By Justin Heath

by Emily Whalen

by Emily Whalen

Great Books on Women's History (East Asia and South Asia)

By Mark Battjes

by Emilio Zamora

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By Charalampos Minasidis

Great Books on Women's History: Crossing Borders

By Emily Whalen

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By Megan Seaholm

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By Mark Sheaves

By Christopher Babits

By Jimena Perry

by Cali Slair

By Mark Sheaves

by Janet Davis

by Abikal Borah

By Jing Zhai

Great Books on the Vietnam War.

by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

By Christopher Babits

by Ben Weiss

By Diego A. Godoy

Great Books on the History of Asian American Immigration.

By Christina Villareal

By Kazushi Minami

Great Books on the End of the British Empire

By Jacob Doss

by Tatjana Lichtenstein and Jonathan Parker

By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

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by David Conrad

by Charley S. Binkow

By John Lisle

By Stefanie Carter

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By Cali Slair

By Norman Coulson

By Emily Whalen

By Chris Babits

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by Nakia Parker

By Jacob Doss

By Mark Battjes

By Adrian Masters

By Edward Shore

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By Eyal Weinberg

By Mark Sheaves

By J. Taylor Vurpillat

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By Maria José Afanador-Llach

By Travis Gray

Kazushi Minami

Great Books on Catholic Borderlands

By Ernesto Mercado-Montero

By Kristie Flannery

By Mark Sheaves

By Kristie Flannery

By Ben Breen

By Christopher Heaney

By Maria José Afanador-Llach

Great Books on the US and 20c International History

by Charley S. Binkow

By Elizabeth O'Brien

by Kazushi Minami

Great Books on Urban Slavery in the US

By Mark Sheaves

By Elizabeth O'Brien

Great Books on Medieval Islam and its Monuments

By Kevin Baker

by Zachary Montz

By Lauren Hammond

By Henry Wiencek

By Ogechukwu Ezekwem

By Zhaojin Zeng

by Henry Wiencek

By Ben Weiss

Great Books on the First World War

by Charley S. Binkow

By Christina Marie Villarreal

by Henry Wiencek

By Ogechukwu Ezekwem

by Charley S. Binkow

By Simon Miles

By Jorge Cañizares Esguerra

by Henry Wiencek

By Nakia Parker

By Ann Twinam

by Charley S. Binkow

By Kody Jackson

by Henry Wiencek

By Shery Chanis

by Charley S. Binkow

By Shery Chanis

Great Books on On Women and Nation in India

by Henry Wiencek

by Charley S. Binkow

By Samantha Rubino

by Henry Wiencek

by Charley S. Binkow

Great Books on Learning to Teach History

By Hannah Ballard

by Henry Wiencek

by Charley S. Binkow

Great Books and a Film on the Amazon

By Elizabeth O'Brien

by Jermaine Thibodeaux

By Travis Gray

Great Books on Rethinking the College Classroom

By Benjamin Griffin

By Kevin Baker

By Eyal Weinberg

By Michelle Reeves

By Andrew Straw

Great Books on Islam in American Politics & History

by Blake Scott

By Joseph Parrott

By Michelle Reeves

by Joan Neuberger

By Darcy Rendon

Great Books on Siberian Voices

Book cover of War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities edited by Arnoldo De León

by Lizeth Elizondo

Great Books on Modern Economic History

By Alexander Lang

by Dolph Briscoe IV

By Daniel Rusnak

By Allegra Geller

By Jack Loveridge

Great Books on Possession, Exorcism and Witchcraft

By Kyle Smith

By Michael Hatch

Book cover of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet by Lawrence J. Friedman

By Christopher Duncan

By Janine Jones

By Hannah Ballard

By Adrienne Morea

By Kristopher Yingling

By Julia M. Gossard

By Mark Eaker

by Kristie Flannery

by Robert Whitaker

Great Books on Eugenics in World History

Book cover of The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale

By Christopher Rose

By Cristina Metz

by Julia M. Gossard

By Janine Jones

Read More About the Emancipation Proclamation & Its Aftermath

by Daina Ramey Berry

by Danielle Sanchez

By Edgar Walters

By Jacob Troublefield

By Cameron McCoy

by Christopher Rose

Great Books on Urban Foodways

by Nicholas Roland

By Chloe Ireton

By Kristie Flannery

Book cover of When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

by David A. Conrad

By Shery Chanis

Great Books on Smoking History

By Jack Loveridge

By Chloe Ireton

By Alexander Lang

By Sundar Vadlamundi

By Rachel Ozanne

By Edward Shore

Great Books on William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience

by Robert Abzug

By Dharitri Bhattacharjee

By Mark Eaker

Book cover of A History of the World in 100 Objects: From the Handaxe to the Credit Card by Neil MacGregor

By Cynthia Talbot

Book cover of The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

By Janine Jones

Great Books on Ulysses Grant

Book cover of The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements by Lynne Viola

By Andrew Straw

By Janine Jones

Movie poster of the movie Boxing Shadows

by Anne M. Martínez

By Zachary Carmichael

By Adrian Masters

By Dolph Briscoe IV

By Jonathan Hunt

Book cover of Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation Through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy

By Ahmad Agbaria

By Huaiyin Li

By Brian Stauffer

By Susan Zakaib

By Ellen Mcamis

By Laurie Wood

By Jacqueline Jones

By Dolph Briscoe IV

By Cristina Metz

Movie poster of the movie The Descendants

by Sarah Steinbock-Pratt

by Cristina Metz

By Henry Wiencek

By Erika Bsumek

By Yana Skorobogatov

By Jack Loveridge

Book cover of The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher

By Jack Loveridge

by Yana Skorobogatov

By Jack Loveridge

By Edward Shore

By Jack Loveridge

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Great Books on Science & Technology - Light & Power

By Lauren Hammond

By Cristina Metz

By Zachary Carmichael

By James Hudson

By Megan Seaholm

By Lizeth Elizondo

by Rachel Herrmann

Early Modern Classics

Movie poster of the movie MoneyBall

by Tolga Ozyurtcu

By Jessica Werneke

by Golsheed Bagheri

Book cover of People Are Not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali by Eric Silla

By Tosin Abiodun

by Yoav Di-Capua

by Joan Neuberger

Book cover of Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I by Adriane Lentz-Smith

By Jermaine Thibodeaux

Movie poster of the movie Camila: Love Against All Odds

by Julia Ogden

Great Books From Baseball to Politics

By Jermaine Thibodeaux

By Kristie Flannery

Book cover of A History of Islam in America by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

By Reem Elghonimi

By Joseph Parrott

By Yana Skorobogatov

Great Books on US Pop Music

By Zachary Carmichael

By Lynn Romero

By Katherine Maddox

By William Wilson

Book cover of The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad

By Carson Stones

Movie poster of the movie J. Edgar

by Dolph Briscoe IV

Movie poster of the movie When the Mountains Tremble: The Astonishing Story of Rigoberta Menchú, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

by Virginia Garrard-Burnett

Great Books on La Violencia in Guatemala

By Alison Frazier

By Mathew J. Butler

By Robert A. Olwell

By Penne Restad

By H.W. Brands

By Joseph Parrott

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By Kristie Flannery

By Isabel Huacuja

By Peter Hamilton

By Lior Sternfeld

Movie poster of the movie Amigo

by Sarah Steinbock-Pratt

Movie poster of the movie Sankofa, A Haile Gerima Film

by Daina Ramey Berry and Jermaine Thibodeaux

by Daina Ramey Berry and Jermaine Thibodeaux

Great Books on Enslaved Life and Labor in the US

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By Andrew Weiss

Book cover of The Doubtful Strait/El estrecho dudoso by Ernesto Cardenal and translated by John Lyons

By Adrian Masters

Old movie poster for the movie The Adventures of Robin Hood

by David A. Conrad

By David A. Conrad

By Kristie Flannery

Great Books on Science Myth-Busters

Book cover of The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War Updated Edition by Greg Grandin

By Cristina Metz

By David A. Conrad

Book cover of Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper

By Isabel Huacuja

By Judith Coffin

By David Crew

By Julia M. Gossard

Book cover of Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins

By Joseph Parrott

Great Books on Worlds War II

by Judy Coffin

Book cover of Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

By Michael Stoff

Book cover of Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude

By Andrew Straw

By Joseph Parrott

Book cover of The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori

By Tatjana Lichtenstein

by Daina Ramey Berry, Tiffany Gill, and the Association of Black Women Historians

Great Books on Capital Punishment in Modern America

By Benjamin Breen

By Kyle Shelton

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba by Karen Bouwer

By Tosin Abiodun

By Brian McNeil

By Mary Katherine Matalon

By Matt Tribbe

Great Books on African American Beauty Culture

Book cover of Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld

By Sundar Vadlamudi

by Brian Levack

Book cover of Midnight's Children with a New Introduction by the Author by Salman Rushdie

By Gail Minault

Book cover of Aids & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer

By Blake Scott

By Nathan E. McCormack

Book cover of The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi

By Lior Sternfeld

by Seth Garfield

By Yana Skorobogatov

Stencil of Che Guevara in gray on yellow background

By Franz D. Hensel Riveros

Movie poster of the movie Vatel

by Julia M. Gossard

Book cover of Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil by Bryan McCann

By Franz D. Hensel Riveros

Book cover of Prejudice and Pride: School Histories of the Freedom Struggle in India and Pakistan by Krishna Kumar

By Amber Abbas

By Dolph Briscoe IV

Great Books on Atlantic Empires

Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon by Lytton Strachey

By Joseph Parrott

Book cover of Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 by Steve J. Stern

By Monica Jimenez

Book cover of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamic Turn by Asef Bayat

By Lior Sternfeld

By Michelle Reeves

By Lior Sternfeld

by Tatjana Lichtenstein

By Renata Keller

By Jonathan Hunt

Book cover of American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines

By Joseph Parrott

Great Books on Egypt in the Modern World

By Jessica Wolcott Luther

Book cover of Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism edited by Malinda S. Smith

By Lady Jane Acquah

By Felipe Cruz

by Karl Hagstrom Miller

Book cover of Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience by Harold L. Smith and Judith N. McArthur

Great Books on Women in US History

by Jennifer Eckel

By Julia Rahe

Book cover of Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro by Brodwyn Fischer

By Salvador Salinas

Great Books on Africa and the U.S.

Movie poster of the movie Johnny Tremain: He Answered Freedom's Call

by Robert Olwell

Book cover of The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan

By Gail Minault

Book cover of Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

By David A. Conrad

Book cover of Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism Second Edition by Zachary Lockman

By Kristin Tassin

Book cover of The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years by Philippe Ariès

By Zach Doleshal

By Aragorn Storm Miller

by Joan Neuberger

Great Books on the Rise of American Capitalism

By Charles Thomas

Book cover of Besieged: Voices from Delhi 1857 compiled and translated by Mahmood Farooqui

By Isabel Huacuja

Book cover of Latin America's Cold War by Hal Brands

By Michelle Reeves

Book cover of The Voices of Morebath: Reformation & Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy

By Michelle Brock

By Ava Purkiss

by Ben Breen

Book cover of The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor

By James Jenkins

Book cover of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

By David A. Conrad

By Julia M. Gossard

Book cover of Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by João José Reis

By Felipe Cruz

by Frank A. Guridy

By Ryan Groves

By Aragorn Storm Miller

Book cover of The Oxford History of the United States: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson

Great Books on the Civil War

Book cover of The Other Side of Silence: Voices From the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia

By Amber Abbas

Book cover of Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses

By Yana Skorobogatov

By Dolph Briscoe IV

Book cover of Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II by Emilio Zamora

By Emilio Zamora

Great Books on Slavery, Abolition, and Reconstruction

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