American Studies 101

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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,689 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,338 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,680 ratings
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,790 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating — 196,288 ratings
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America at 1750: A Social Portrait
America at 1750: A Social Portrait 3.67 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
The Strange Career of Jim Crow 4.14 avg rating — 3,184 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,176 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era 4.40 avg rating — 33,177 ratings
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life 4.11 avg rating — 3,514 ratings
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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom 4.24 avg rating — 2,349 ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War 4.10 avg rating — 24,892 ratings
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Citizens Creek
Citizens Creek 3.91 avg rating — 1,349 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,283 ratings
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Assassins
Assassins 4.25 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,468 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America 3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 3.93 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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Writing Early American History
Writing Early American History 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials 3.60 avg rating — 939 ratings
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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars 3.58 avg rating — 8,673 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 3.99 avg rating — 13,754 ratings
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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin 4.13 avg rating — 8,483 ratings
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The Cultural Life of the American Colonies
The Cultural Life of the American Colonies 3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South 3.93 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Fifties
The Fifties 4.28 avg rating — 6,833 ratings
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1776
1776 4.10 avg rating — 243,338 ratings
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 4.05 avg rating — 4,353 ratings
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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 4.06 avg rating — 1,983 ratings
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Democracy in America
Democracy in America 4.05 avg rating — 26,630 ratings
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Across The Wide Missouri
Across The Wide Missouri 4.08 avg rating — 487 ratings
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The Year of Decision 1846
The Year of Decision 1846 4.13 avg rating — 424 ratings
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The Closing of the American Mind
The Closing of the American Mind 3.76 avg rating — 5,868 ratings
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The Assault on Reason
The Assault on Reason
by: Al Gore
3.78 avg rating — 7,356 ratings
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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction 4.06 avg rating — 1,105 ratings
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Domestic Manners of the Americans
Domestic Manners of the Americans 3.71 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-1975
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-1975 4.31 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 3.75 avg rating — 206,250 ratings
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The Best and the Brightest
The Best and the Brightest 4.27 avg rating — 12,645 ratings
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches 4.57 avg rating — 2,429 ratings
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The Making of the President 1960
The Making of the President 1960 4.15 avg rating — 7,922 ratings
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All the President’s Men
All the President’s Men 4.18 avg rating — 56,974 ratings
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Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free 3.71 avg rating — 4,193 ratings
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Popular Culture: An Introductory Text
Popular Culture: An Introductory Text 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A History of the American People
A History of the American People 4.11 avg rating — 2,976 ratings
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Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century
Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century 4.12 avg rating — 129 ratings
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America: An Album. Eighty poems of our history from Godey's Lady's Book
America: An Album. Eighty poems of our history from Godey's Lady's Book it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism
Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism 4.15 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
by: Larry Tye
4.08 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything 3.53 avg rating — 667 ratings
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The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition
The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition 4.13 avg rating — 201 ratings
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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America 4.10 avg rating — 653 ratings
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Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America
Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America 4.27 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Reefer Madness: A History of Marijuana
Reefer Madness: A History of Marijuana 3.81 avg rating — 142 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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"Takin' It to the Streets": A Sixties Reader
"Takin' It to the Streets": A Sixties Reader 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History Of Psychotherapy
Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History Of Psychotherapy 4.27 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents
Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents
by: Gil Troy
3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s
Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s
by: Gil Troy
3.72 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The debate on the American Revolution
The debate on the American Revolution 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Origins of American Politics
The Origins of American Politics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 4.13 avg rating — 2,046 ratings
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
The Radicalism of the American Revolution 4.08 avg rating — 5,311 ratings
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In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life 3.96 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) 3.99 avg rating — 2,876 ratings
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Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys
Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys 3.32 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations 3.95 avg rating — 1,977 ratings
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Washington's Crossing
Washington's Crossing 4.16 avg rating — 15,170 ratings
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 3.95 avg rating — 46,970 ratings
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After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture
After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture 3.72 avg rating — 234 ratings
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American Slavery: 1619-1877
American Slavery: 1619-1877 3.94 avg rating — 776 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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The Course Of Empire
The Course Of Empire 4.17 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express 3.48 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Here, Now, and Always: Voices of the First Peoples of the Southwest
Here, Now, and Always: Voices of the First Peoples of the Southwest 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream 4.05 avg rating — 1,629 ratings
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Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War 3.55 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle 3.95 avg rating — 5,937 ratings
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The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy 3.73 avg rating — 2,164 ratings
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Don't Eat This Book
Don't Eat This Book 3.70 avg rating — 2,113 ratings
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Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir 4.27 avg rating — 686 ratings
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L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels
L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels 4.37 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway
Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings