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Peter Bergen
All the Presidents' Wars

2026 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, the most devastating attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. Within days, the United States began to declare its war on terror: "Either you are with …

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Shulamith Z. Berger, Jai Zion
The Ritz with a Shvitz

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The shocking story of how a haven for the Lower East Side's Jewish population was destroyed by New York's rapacious real estate interests. There were few options for Jewish patrons looking for a place to …

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Sheila Curran Bernard
Bring Judgment Day

Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South…

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Michael T. Bernath
In a Land of Strangers

What made the South the South for nineteenth-century Americans? Was it its geography, its economy, its slavery, its culture, its history, its politics? Or was it the stories that were told about the South…

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Matthew Bernstein
Crimewave

When on May 12, 1848, Sam Brannan walked down San Francisco's Market Street, holding high a bottle of gold dust and shouting, "Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" he initiated the great C…

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Roger Biles, Mark H Rose
In the Heart of the Rustbelt

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Roger Biles, Mark H Rose
In the Heart of the Rustbelt

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Matt Birkhold
Black Power PRAXIS

Black Power Praxis shows how four groups of activist-intellectuals--James and Grace Lee Boggs, Richard and Milton Henry, Reverend Albert Cleage, and a group of college students called Uhuru--shifted the c…

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Stephen Birmingham
Certain People

Certain People is an extensively researched, fascinating, and intimate portrait of America's black elite which reveals the rarely publicized world of the heritage, conflicts, and characteristics of the bl…

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Matthew Black
Maritime Underworld

For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's The Rush, David Grann's The Wager, and The Undiscovered Countryby Paul Andrew Hutton, the lawless rise and fiery fall of San Francisco's Barbary Coast, the seedy, illi…

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Melissa Estes Blair
Bringing Home the White House

In Bringing Home the White House, Melissa Estes Blair introduces us to five fascinating yet largely unheralded women who were at the heart of campaigns to elect and reelect some of our most beloved presid…

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Emily Blanck
Juneteenth

The abolition of slavery was one of the greatest expansions of freedom in American history. Yet for more than a century, the nation had no shared national holiday commemorating emancipation. Juneteenth te…

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Lesley Blume
A Devil's Bargain

Bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume documents the frenzied race to write the definitive account of the Manson murders-a race that included the likes of literary icons Truman Capote and Joan Didion.Three …

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Felice A Bonadio
A. P. Giannini

Perhaps more than any other individual, Amadeo Peter Giannini propelled California into the twentieth century. By extending credit to working people and building a vast branch-banking network, this son of…

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Jon Boorstin
The American

What does it mean to be an American? Historian Daniel J. Boorstin, one of the most important public intellectuals of the twentieth century, spent a lifetime pondering that question. In his revelatory book…

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Claire Bourhis-Mariotti
We Are American Citizens

We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored Conventions, demonstrating that these gatherings constituted the first structured civil rights movement in…

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Herb Boyd
Epic Harlem

A sweeping, deeply rooted history of Harlem at the center of Black cultural, political, and intellectual lifeFrom its earliest Indigenous inhabitants and Dutch settlers to its emergence as a global center…

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Nathan Braccio
Creating New England, Defending the Northeast

Examining maps and placemaking during negotiations between Indigenous people and colonial settlersBetween 1500 and 1700, Indigenous and English mapmakers across the North Atlantic depicted present-day New…

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Carl A Brasseaux, Keith P Fontenot
Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous

In an extraordinary feat of research and intrepid historical navigation, Carl A. Brasseaux and Keith P. Fontenot serve as guides through the labyrinthian and often harrowing world of Louisiana bayou steam…

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Benjamin Breen
Tripping on Utopia

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The New Yorker 's Best Books of 2024 A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of expe…

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