Best American History Books
301. 
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
by:
Scott Zesch
4.05 avg rating — 3,950 ratings 303. 
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
by:
John M. Barry
4.22 avg rating — 5,752 ratings 
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
by:
David Hajdu
3.86 avg rating — 3,682 ratings 
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
by:
Ian W. Toll
4.61 avg rating — 9,759 ratings 
316. 
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
by:
Joseph J. Ellis
4.15 avg rating — 6,622 ratings 
318. 
A Modern Declaration of Independence: Crimes Against Humanity and a New System
by:
Jakub Lasak
4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings 320. 
See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era
by:
Tara T. Green
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 320. 
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s
by:
Ellen Schrecker
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings 
326. 
The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
by:
Kostya Kennedy
4.01 avg rating — 883 ratings 328. 
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
by:
Ty Seidule
4.41 avg rating — 5,506 ratings 329. 
Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
by:
Kenneth C. Davis
3.87 avg rating — 8,941 ratings 
330. 
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by:
Thomas Frank
3.85 avg rating — 12,723 ratings 330. 
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse
by:
James L. Swanson
3.85 avg rating — 3,873 ratings 333. 
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
by:
Walter Johnson
4.11 avg rating — 2,011 ratings 
334. 
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
by:
Alexander Rose
3.82 avg rating — 6,006 ratings 336. 
Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
by:
Terry Golway
4.12 avg rating — 548 ratings 
338. 
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials 3.60 avg rating — 939 ratings
342. 
Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and his place in Southern History 4.09 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series) 4.13 avg rating — 9,594 ratings
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Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800
by:
Mary Beth Norton
3.88 avg rating — 413 ratings 
348. 
Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court 3.87 avg rating — 1,062 ratings
348. 
Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
by:
Evan Thomas
3.98 avg rating — 2,870 ratings 350. 
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
by:
Jon Meacham
3.86 avg rating — 3,137 ratings 351. 
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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 3.98 avg rating — 10,473 ratings
352. 
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.48 avg rating — 10,574 ratings 354. 
Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863
by:
Shelby Foote
4.45 avg rating — 1,741 ratings 
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
by:
Timothy Egan
4.14 avg rating — 17,867 ratings 358. 
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
by:
Leon F. Litwack
4.24 avg rating — 690 ratings 
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by:
Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating — 24,555 ratings 363. 
American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture
by:
Joane Nagel
3.50 avg rating — 28 ratings 
368. 
From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom 1914-1989 (America: The Last Best Hope #2) 4.38 avg rating — 707 ratings
368. 
The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory
by:
Robert V. Remini
3.85 avg rating — 732 ratings 371. 
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam: The Battle that Changed the Course of the Civil War 4.02 avg rating — 2,888 ratings
372. 
Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster
by:
Jonathan Eig
3.82 avg rating — 1,050 ratings 374. 
Iron-Jawed Angels: The Suffrage Militancy of the National Woman's Party 1912-1920
by:
Linda G. Ford
4.44 avg rating — 59 ratings 375. 
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The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege 3.82 avg rating — 612 ratings
382. 
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
by:
Kirstin Downey
4.22 avg rating — 2,439 ratings 
384. 
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
by:
John Ferling
4.19 avg rating — 3,275 ratings 386. 
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War 3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
387. 
Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
by:
Hillary Johnson
4.16 avg rating — 118 ratings 387. 
389. 
Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes 3.83 avg rating — 619 ratings
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Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress 4.39 avg rating — 256 ratings
400. 
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
by:
Doug Stanton
4.33 avg rating — 23,191 ratings