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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBy the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Rebecca Nagle · 352 pages
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham · 694 pages
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr · 513 pages
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Peter Matthiessen · 646 pages
An investigative account of the fatal shootout between FBI agents and American Indians in 1975. On a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native Americans near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, left an Indian and two federal agents dead. Four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges, and one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted and is now serv
A Young People's History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror (For Young People Series)
Howard Zinn · 223 pages
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
Joseph J. Ellis · 304 pages
From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders--Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Adams. He c
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond · 592 pages
"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?" "As in Guns, G
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer · 512 pages
A Disability History of the United States
Kim E. Nielsen · 228 pages
Covers the entirety of U.S. disability history, from pre-1492 to the present. Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. It places the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it's a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical reposition
A Queer History of the United States
Michael Bronski · 287 pages
"A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the LGBT, or queer, experience, while simultaneously arguing that LGBT people not only shaped but were pivotal in creating our country. Using numerous primary documents and literature, as well as social histories, Bronski's book takes the reader through the centuries--from Columbus'
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz · 296 pages
Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen · 414 pages
Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions. What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincin
The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
Mark Peterson · 784 pages
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann · 339 pages
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker wr
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown · 512 pages
Walking With The Comrades
Arundhati Roy · 182 pages
In early 2010, Roy traveled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world's biggest mining corporations. The result is this... report from the heart of an unfolding revolution.
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
John Vaillant · 272 pages
Roman de société. Roman témoignage Cette histoire vraie captivante donne à voir les beauté de l'Alaska. Le bûcheron Hadwin abbat un épicéa de 300 ans : arbre sacré pour les indiens Haïdas. L'homme disparaît sans laisser de mystérieusement.
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk · 596 pages
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · 320 pages
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
Scott Zesch · 373 pages
"On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn's life as the son of a poor German-speaking farmer ended, and his life as a Comanche began." "On that day, an Indian raiding party kidnapped the boy from his neighbor's pasture in the Texas Hill Country. With little hope of finding him alive and no resources - material or political - his loved ones eventually gave him up for dead." "However, Ado
Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
Lee Miller · 367 pages
The author searches for the truth about the four-hundred-year-old disappearance of England's first colony in North America and the fate of its settlers.
They Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to Assassinate JFK
Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell, David Wayne · 368 pages
The former governor of Minnesota teams up with a successful author and some of the most respected and influential assassination researchers to provide all the conspiracy angles of this notable event in American history.
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Michael Grunwald · 472 pages