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A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship, translated by Kristin M. McGuire (2019)

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

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

Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali

The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown (2003)

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

Angela Merkel: Europe’s Most Influential Leader (2016) by Matthew Qvortrup

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

Kissinger’s Shadow, by Greg Grandin (2015)

A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence, by John E. Mack (1976)

Great Books on Women’s History: Asia

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

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

Philip of Spain, King of England, by Harry Kelsey (2012)

The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester (2005)

Genghis Khan and the Making of The Modern World, by Jack Weatherford (2004)

Personal Memoirs, by Ulysses S. Grant (2003)

Francisco de Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution 1750-1816, by Karen Racine (2002)

George Orwell: A Life in Letters (2013)

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

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves (1929)

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

Honorable Mention of 2012 Undergraduate Essay Contest: Musui’s Story, The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai by Katsu Kokichi (1991)

Winner of 2012 Undergraduate Essay Contest: The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt (2010)

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

Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope by Judith M. Brown (1989)

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (2009)

The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe, by Glynis Ridley (2010)

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

Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography (Volume I: 1889-1947) by Sarvepalli Gopal (1976)

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor (2009)

The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo by Lauren Derby (2009)

Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins (2002)

Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude (2009)

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India by Loseph Lelyveld (2010)

Che’s Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image by Michael Casey (2009)

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

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey (1918)

Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 by Steven Stern (2006)

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2009)

The Rebel’s Hour by Lieve Joris (2008)

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