Historical MythBusters

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,727 ratings
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Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950
Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950 4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Orientalism
Orientalism 4.13 avg rating — 28,513 ratings
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Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened 3.59 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology 4.04 avg rating — 728 ratings
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,110 ratings
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Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985
Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 4.10 avg rating — 550 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women 4.09 avg rating — 64,238 ratings
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke 3.76 avg rating — 1,561 ratings
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Death by Petticoat: American History Myths Debunked
Death by Petticoat: American History Myths Debunked 3.43 avg rating — 581 ratings
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Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence
Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence 3.72 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates 3.68 avg rating — 10,104 ratings
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The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Miss Leslie's Lady's House-Book; a Manual of Domestic Economy Containing Approved Directions for Washing, Dress-Making
Miss Leslie's Lady's House-Book; a Manual of Domestic Economy Containing Approved Directions for Washing, Dress-Making 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 3: The Linguistic Evidence
Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 3: The Linguistic Evidence 3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race 4.24 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes 3.98 avg rating — 953 ratings
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John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 4.04 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun 4.31 avg rating — 164 ratings
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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 3.94 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Looking for De Soto: A Search Through the South for the Spaniard's Trail
Looking for De Soto: A Search Through the South for the Spaniard's Trail 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives
The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives 4.38 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships (Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports)
The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships (Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports) 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Plantation Slave Weavers Remember: An Oral History
Plantation Slave Weavers Remember: An Oral History 4.61 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
by: Myke Cole
3.68 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The World of Antebellum America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
The World of Antebellum America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 volumes] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth
God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth 3.99 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder 3.94 avg rating — 19,453 ratings
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Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future 4.25 avg rating — 2,812 ratings
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South 4.29 avg rating — 4,918 ratings
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Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator
Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator 3.67 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives 4.20 avg rating — 152 ratings
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A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876
A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market 4.39 avg rating — 635 ratings
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Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine 3.78 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth 4.26 avg rating — 5,655 ratings
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Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother
Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother 3.71 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy And the Protocols of the Elders Of Zion
Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy And the Protocols of the Elders Of Zion 4.08 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film
The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film 3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past 3.92 avg rating — 2,270 ratings
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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth 4.29 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning
Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning 4.17 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism
Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends 3.46 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Old West Showdown: Two Authors Wrangle over the Truth about the Mythic Old West
Old West Showdown: Two Authors Wrangle over the Truth about the Mythic Old West 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps 3.85 avg rating — 1,347 ratings
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Margaret Mead and the Heretic: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth
Margaret Mead and the Heretic: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth 3.33 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History 3.90 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Memory Warp: How the Myth of Repressed Memory Arose and Refuses to Die
Memory Warp: How the Myth of Repressed Memory Arose and Refuses to Die 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Great Game: The Myths and Reality of Espionage
The Great Game: The Myths and Reality of Espionage 3.15 avg rating — 157 ratings
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“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans 4.11 avg rating — 1,927 ratings
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Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism
Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism 3.58 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies
Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History
Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History 3.54 avg rating — 644 ratings
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The myth of the Appalachian brain drain;: A case study of West Virginia,
The myth of the Appalachian brain drain;: A case study of West Virginia, 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism
The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism 3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang
Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang 4.30 avg rating — 417 ratings
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The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths
The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths 3.38 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw
Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw 3.96 avg rating — 264 ratings
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How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial
How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial 3.50 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth 3.49 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology
Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America 3.63 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature 3.70 avg rating — 620 ratings
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John Brown in Memory and Myth
John Brown in Memory and Myth 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq
The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq 4.12 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse
Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth 4.02 avg rating — 611 ratings
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An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan
An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan 4.32 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River
Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River
by: John Lane
4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, and the Myth of the Heavyweight Title
One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, and the Myth of the Heavyweight Title 4.43 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?: Music's Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed
Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?: Music's Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed 3.34 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate 4.07 avg rating — 5,763 ratings
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Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons
Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons 3.67 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice
The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time 3.90 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth 3.72 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South
Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity (Great Comics Artists Series)
Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity (Great Comics Artists Series) 3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'N' Roll Song
Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'N' Roll Song 3.73 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
by: Tim Riley
3.89 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies?: The Truth Behind Old Wives' Tales
Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies?: The Truth Behind Old Wives' Tales 3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History
Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History 3.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause"
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause" 4.35 avg rating — 176 ratings
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The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement
The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement 3.65 avg rating — 83 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity 4.29 avg rating — 17,217 ratings
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine 4.27 avg rating — 7,526 ratings
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Paying the Land
Paying the Land
by: Joe Sacco
4.33 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
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Palestine
Palestine
by: Joe Sacco
4.25 avg rating — 20,960 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life 3.98 avg rating — 4,475 ratings
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Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling 3.68 avg rating — 215 ratings
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League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth
League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth 4.19 avg rating — 4,614 ratings
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Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish 4.20 avg rating — 7,341 ratings
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Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts 4.14 avg rating — 601 ratings
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We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent 4.01 avg rating — 973 ratings
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The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity 4.32 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader
The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest 3.92 avg rating — 996 ratings
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Myths About Suicide
Myths About Suicide 4.03 avg rating — 305 ratings
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