Best American History Books
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Seven Miracles That Saved America: Why They Matter and Why We Should Have Hope
by:
Chris Stewart
4.10 avg rating — 2,912 ratings 
405. 
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
by:
Nicholas Lemann
4.24 avg rating — 781 ratings 
407. 
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
by:
Peter Stark
4.09 avg rating — 12,329 ratings 
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A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England: Voices from Past and Present
by:
Moondancer
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 410. 
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
by:
Stephen B. Oates
4.44 avg rating — 1,057 ratings 410. 
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating — 19,534 ratings
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The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy 3.73 avg rating — 2,165 ratings
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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
by:
Cokie Roberts
3.83 avg rating — 2,417 ratings 
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
by:
Emerson W. Baker
3.84 avg rating — 1,319 ratings 416. 
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by:
Gilbert King
4.40 avg rating — 15,754 ratings 
419. 
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
by:
David E. Hoffman
4.16 avg rating — 5,432 ratings 419. 
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
by:
Laton McCartney
3.79 avg rating — 761 ratings 421. 
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.44 avg rating — 7,776 ratings 
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
by:
Kurt Andersen
4.09 avg rating — 8,699 ratings 
425. 
City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 3.93 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
by:
Lynn Vincent
4.46 avg rating — 7,237 ratings 428. 
The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy
by:
Bell Irvin Wiley
4.06 avg rating — 1,215 ratings 
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
by:
Eric Foner
4.12 avg rating — 1,384 ratings 431. 
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A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
by:
Peter Irons
4.06 avg rating — 1,485 ratings 433. 
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
by:
Wallace Stegner
4.05 avg rating — 4,163 ratings 433. 
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
by:
Garrett M. Graff
4.72 avg rating — 41,778 ratings 435. 
Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship
by:
John Baldwin
3.79 avg rating — 360 ratings 435. 
Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
by:
Elaine Tyler May
3.91 avg rating — 1,563 ratings 437. 
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
by:
Thom Hartmann
4.20 avg rating — 622 ratings 
438. 
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
by:
William Cronon
4.10 avg rating — 3,912 ratings 
440. 
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,189 ratings
440. 
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
by:
John Heilemann
4.13 avg rating — 22,715 ratings 444. 
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating — 23,242 ratings 
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The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
by:
Alex Kershaw
4.13 avg rating — 2,106 ratings 448. 
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
by:
David W. Blight
4.14 avg rating — 2,724 ratings 450. 
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
by:
Anthony Shadid
4.15 avg rating — 913 ratings 450. 
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
by:
Mary Beth Norton
3.67 avg rating — 1,461 ratings 450. 
Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
by:
David O. Stewart
4.02 avg rating — 3,719 ratings 
455. 
The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
by:
Alex Kershaw
4.26 avg rating — 4,614 ratings 
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458. 
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 3.83 avg rating — 10,183 ratings
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American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War
by:
Ted Widmer
4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings 
460. 
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
by:
Hampton Sides
4.59 avg rating — 7,261 ratings 462. 
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by:
Liaquat Ahamed
4.03 avg rating — 16,188 ratings 462. 
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
by:
Nathalia Holt
3.87 avg rating — 9,263 ratings 464. 
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Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
by:
Pauline Maier
4.11 avg rating — 1,220 ratings 
467. 
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
by:
Bob Drury
4.14 avg rating — 6,290 ratings 
469. 
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent
by:
Robert W. Merry
3.83 avg rating — 7,581 ratings 
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by:
Maya Angelou
4.30 avg rating — 569,020 ratings 473. 
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
by:
Noam Chomsky
3.97 avg rating — 13,936 ratings 
475. 
General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman
by:
Ed Cray
4.38 avg rating — 427 ratings 
479. 
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
by:
Gordon S. Wood
3.97 avg rating — 4,064 ratings 480. 
Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
by:
Bob Woodward
3.73 avg rating — 1,405 ratings 
486. 
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military
by:
Randy Shilts
4.29 avg rating — 586 ratings 
488. 
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
by:
John M. Barry
4.24 avg rating — 1,089 ratings 489. 
What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
by:
Robert Cowley
3.60 avg rating — 621 ratings 
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin & the Great Depression
by:
Alan Brinkley
3.86 avg rating — 515 ratings 493. 
Henry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations of James Madison (1809–1817)
by:
Henry Adams
4.44 avg rating — 113 ratings 494. 
From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad 3.52 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America
by:
Thomas Fleming
3.79 avg rating — 855 ratings 494. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,096 ratings 
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
by:
Jennet Conant
3.36 avg rating — 2,455 ratings 499. 
The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies 1760-1785
by:
Don Cook
4.04 avg rating — 160 ratings 