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United States

Reimagining Reconstruction: Where Do We Go from Here?

Review of Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration (2022) by Laura J. Martin

Review of The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (2002) by Conevery Bolton Valencius

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

Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (2014)

Master of the Game

Review of Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy (2021)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Approaching Storm

Review of The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and their Clash over America’s Future (2021)

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

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

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War – a debate between suffering and medical knowledge for the greater good

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

Review of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (1997)

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

Greedy Bastards – One City’s Texas-Size Struggle to Avoid a Financial Crisis, by Sheryl Sculley (2020)

A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America by Anya Zilberstein (2016)

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones (2020)

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century by Andrei Pop (2019)

This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman (2019)

The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement by Lorena Oropeza (2019)

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman (2018)

To Chicago and Back by Aleko Konstantinov (1894)

Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide by C.J. Alvarez (2019)

The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus (2019)

Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran by Negar Mottahedeh (2019)

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott (2019)

Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio by Nikki M. Taylor (2016)

City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas by Andrew M. Busch (2017)

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, by William Cronon (1983)

Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico by Shirley Boteler Mock (2010)

A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America by Grace Elizabeth Hale (2011)

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017)

Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears (2015)

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (2018)

King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop by Harvard Sitkoff (2009)

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

Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (2015)

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

Rethinking American Grand Strategy in the Asia Pacific

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

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman by Juliana Barr (2007)

Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, by Nick Turse (2013)

The Works of Steven Hahn

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France (2016)

Seeds of Empire, By Andrew Torget (2015)

Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade, By Linda B. Hall (2013)

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones (2016)

Playing Indian, by Philip Deloria (1999)

Trauma and Recovery, by Judith Herman (1992)

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

Kissinger’s Shadow, by Greg Grandin (2015)

More Great Books on US Theatre History

Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy, by David Milne (2015)

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

Great Books on Women’s History: Crossing Borders

My Life on the Road, by Gloria Steinem (2015)

History of Childhood

The Rise of Liberal Religion, by Matthew Hedstrom (2013)

Must Read Books on the Vietnam War

Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture, and the Shaping of the Modern Self, by Jessica Grogan (2012)

Asian American Immigration: Read More

A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico jointly created the Mexican Drug War, by Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace (2015)

Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World, by Hajimu Masuda (2015)

Five Books on the End of Empire, by Wm. Roger Louis

Slaves and Englishmen, by Michael Guasco (2014)

The Environment on History & History in the Environment

This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, by William Burrows (1998)

More to Read about Magnum & Photojournalism

Faith Misplaced, by Ussama Makdisi (2010)

Age of Fracture, by Daniel T. Rodgers (2011)

Personal Memoirs, by Ulysses S. Grant (2003)

A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, by Michael McGerr (2003)

Among the Powers of the Earth: the American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire, by Eliga Gould (2012)

Digital History: A Guide by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (2006): New Archive (No. 18)

International History and the Global United States: More to Read

More to Read on Urban Slavery

Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice, by David Scott (2014)

Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation, by Karl Jacoby (2003)

Reagan on War: A Reappraisal of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984, by Gail E. S. Yoshitani (2012)

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South, by Barbara Krauthamer (2013)

The Fish that Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King, by Rich Cohen (2012)

The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Atlantic Slavery

38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End by Scott W. Berg (2012)

Great Books and a Film on the Amazon

Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism by Thomas W. Devine (2013)

Great Books on Islam in American Politics & History

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War, by James Mann (2010)

Divided Together: The United States and the Soviet Union in the United Nations, 1945-1965, by Ilya Gaiduk (2013)

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

War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and the Tejano Communities edited by Arnoldo De León (2012)

Great Books on Possession, Exorcism and Witchcraft

Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas by Amilcar Shabazz

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

The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet by Lawrence J. Friedman (2013)

The Republic of Nature by Mark Fiege (2012)

Honorable Mention of 2013 Essay Contest: Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg by Rod Gragg (2000)

The Founders and Finance by Thomas K. McGraw (2012)

The Emancipation Proclamation and its Aftermath

L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present by Josh Sides (2003)

Book cover of When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Ostuka (2003) & The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Ostuka (2012)

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson (1972)

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman (2007)

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (2009)

Movie poster of the movie Boxing Shadows

Boxing Shadows, by W.K. Stratton with Anissa “The Assassin” Zamarron (2009)

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (2012)

Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy by Jules Tygiel (1997)

The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner (2011)

Navajo Arts and the History of the U.S. West

Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South by Hannah Rosen (2008)

Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: Birth Control in America by Linda Gordon (1976)

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

Before Red Tails: Black Servicemen in World War I

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

A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri (2010)

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson (2006)

Great Books on Early Twentieth-Century Popular Music

Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky (1999)

Great Books on Enslaved Life and Labor in the US

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1999)

Great Books on Capital Punishment in Modern America

Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York by Samuel Zipp (2010)

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward L. Larson (2006)

Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes by Lisa L. Moore (2011)

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Abridged Edition by Raymond Arsenault (2011)

Great Books on African American Beauty Culture

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

AIDS & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer (1992)

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby (2008)

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein (2008)

The Wilsonian Moment by Erez Manela (2007)

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

African Americans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines (2007)

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2009)

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

Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism ed. Malinda S. Smith (2010)

Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption & Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States by John Soluri (2005)

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

Great Books on Africa and the U.S.

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann (2004)

Great Books on The Rise of American Capitalism

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

Latin America’s Cold War by Hal Brands (2010)

Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction by Michele Mitchell (2004)

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

Book Talk: Civil War Classics

The Age of Reagan: A History, by Sean Wilentz (2008)

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

“Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas; Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II” by Emilio Zamora (2009)

Great Books on Slavery, Abolition, and Reconstruction

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