Best American History Books

101.
Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,129 ratings
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Personal Memoirs
Personal Memoirs 4.13 avg rating — 9,497 ratings
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The Second World War
The Second World War 4.11 avg rating — 5,020 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Seabiscuit: An American Legend 4.23 avg rating — 167,140 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 Age of Jackson
The Age of Jackson 3.97 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family 4.02 avg rating — 6,800 ratings
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Lincoln
Lincoln 4.19 avg rating — 48,074 ratings
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn 4.04 avg rating — 11,913 ratings
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
The Radicalism of the American Revolution 4.08 avg rating — 5,312 ratings
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 4.16 avg rating — 3,678 ratings
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Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers 4.22 avg rating — 62,882 ratings
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The Oxford History of the American People
The Oxford History of the American People 4.14 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 425,975 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
One Summer: America, 1927 4.10 avg rating — 53,983 ratings
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Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin 4.33 avg rating — 13,982 ratings
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The Frontiersmen
The Frontiersmen 4.46 avg rating — 4,601 ratings
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The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It 4.04 avg rating — 1,859 ratings
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 3.96 avg rating — 8,810 ratings
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s 3.98 avg rating — 2,340 ratings
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America 4.19 avg rating — 14,286 ratings
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide 4.33 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 4.49 avg rating — 45,837 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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The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian 4.54 avg rating — 7,474 ratings
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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness 3.92 avg rating — 6,578 ratings
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The First World War
The First World War 4.04 avg rating — 15,645 ratings
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Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution
Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution 4.23 avg rating — 1,630 ratings
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The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America
The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America 4.07 avg rating — 5,292 ratings
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To Hell and Back
To Hell and Back 4.26 avg rating — 8,645 ratings
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Walden & Civil Disobedience
Walden & Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating — 38,623 ratings
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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams 4.19 avg rating — 2,388 ratings
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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam 4.24 avg rating — 4,700 ratings
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do 4.24 avg rating — 5,742 ratings
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The First Salute : View of the American Revolution
The First Salute : View of the American Revolution 3.94 avg rating — 2,883 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating — 23,622 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey 4.21 avg rating — 74,673 ratings
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (The American Revolution Series) 4.06 avg rating — 10,148 ratings
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Decision Points
Decision Points 3.81 avg rating — 42,107 ratings
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Mr. Lincoln's Army
Mr. Lincoln's Army 4.33 avg rating — 2,947 ratings
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 4.15 avg rating — 5,430 ratings
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The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope 3.93 avg rating — 3,786 ratings
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Gettysburg
Gettysburg 4.36 avg rating — 5,014 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,768 ratings
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Dispatches
Dispatches 4.22 avg rating — 21,212 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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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
American Colonies: The Settling of North America 4.08 avg rating — 4,546 ratings
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U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom) 4.52 avg rating — 27,061 ratings
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The Mind of the South
The Mind of the South
by: W.J. Cash
3.95 avg rating — 638 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far 4.27 avg rating — 21,303 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA 3.95 avg rating — 14,508 ratings
153.
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq 4.17 avg rating — 4,515 ratings
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War 4.04 avg rating — 7,249 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,283 ratings
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Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3)
Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3) 4.11 avg rating — 22,241 ratings
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Huey Long
Huey Long 4.23 avg rating — 2,111 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: Writings
Thomas Jefferson: Writings 4.23 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn 4.13 avg rating — 3,203 ratings
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic 3.97 avg rating — 10,697 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,215 ratings
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America 4.17 avg rating — 11,143 ratings
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Eleanor and Franklin
Eleanor and Franklin 4.26 avg rating — 2,956 ratings
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
by: Jay Winik
4.08 avg rating — 2,004 ratings
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Writings: The Autobiography / Poor Richard’s Almanack / Bagatelles, Pamphlets, Essays & Letters
Writings: The Autobiography / Poor Richard’s Almanack / Bagatelles, Pamphlets, Essays & Letters 4.23 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,882 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,044 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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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor 4.21 avg rating — 3,692 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3.85 avg rating — 89,879 ratings
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Day of Infamy
Day of Infamy 4.12 avg rating — 4,772 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World 3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings
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Madam Secretary
Madam Secretary 4.11 avg rating — 9,058 ratings
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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
by: John Ehle
4.13 avg rating — 4,466 ratings
175.
American Slavery, American Freedom
American Slavery, American Freedom 4.12 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War 3.62 avg rating — 4,037 ratings
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court 4.09 avg rating — 18,283 ratings
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Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating — 18,960 ratings
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All the President’s Men
All the President’s Men 4.18 avg rating — 56,974 ratings
180.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,433 ratings
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1812: The War That Forged a Nation
1812: The War That Forged a Nation 3.91 avg rating — 2,341 ratings
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson 4.28 avg rating — 8,559 ratings
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy 4.38 avg rating — 7,476 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris 3.94 avg rating — 20,408 ratings
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The Frontier in American History
The Frontier in American History 3.74 avg rating — 1,261 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 Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays 4.16 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,304 ratings
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The Age of Reform
The Age of Reform 3.91 avg rating — 1,955 ratings
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Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups
Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups 3.66 avg rating — 736 ratings
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Manifesto of the Free People's Union
Manifesto of the Free People's Union 4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern 3.79 avg rating — 2,124 ratings
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West 3.97 avg rating — 2,791 ratings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II 3.73 avg rating — 31,441 ratings
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That Dark and Bloody River
That Dark and Bloody River 4.32 avg rating — 924 ratings
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The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams 3.63 avg rating — 4,868 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 4.13 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World 4.13 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World 4.12 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
The Anti-Federalist Papers 4.14 avg rating — 583 ratings
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