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 ONE CONTINUOUS FIGHT: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863Best Price: $23.06 The Union Army in the Civil War provides a tremendous example of how an institution can survive... |  Habits of Empire: A History of American ExpansionBest Price: $16.89 Discussions abound today about the state of the union, its place in the world, and the founding... |  Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Crown Journeys)Best Price: $8.95 Okay, so it doesn't start off with a story about some kind of crazy sextravaganza out in middle... |  The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New WorldBest Price: $8.99 This is one of the best books I have ever read! There are too few stories about Sephardic Jews... |  The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations (Thrift Edition)Best Price: $0.96 As a US History teacher, this small and inexpensive book brings personality and life to one of... |
 Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial EssaysBest Price: $8.99 A very entertaining look at our modern culture. Each essay challenges us to think about issues... |  Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library)Best Price: $8.00 This is the second copy I have purchased of this book - the first is in tatters from being read... |  The Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestBest Price: $10.88 Tom Wolfe takes us through part of the acid-movement of the 60's with Ken Kesey (author of... |  Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in AmericaBest Price: $19.64 How lucky I feel to have come across and finished one of those rare books that not only provides... |  The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of ReconstructionBest Price: $15.52 This book is heartbreaking; and a literary and historical tour de force. A brilliant rendition... |
 The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped AmericaBest Price: $8.95 Shorto does a great job of bringing the men and women of New Amsterdam to life with his humor... |  The Forgotten SoldierBest Price: $12.88 This is a good read. Most people don't know this, but this book is required reading at the US... |  Che Guevara: A Revolutionary LifeBest Price: $8.98 i love revolutionary people. with out them we would still be slaves. with out revolutionaries... |  Joseph Smith: Rough Stone RollingBest Price: $10.99 This book provides a view of Joseph Smith that helps the reader understand him as a person, his... |  Theodore Rex (Modern Library Paperbacks)Best Price: $5.72 I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I found it difficult to put down and on the rare... |
 A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American ConstitutionBest Price: $6.98 An engaging, enjoyable account of the workings of our "Founding Fathers" as they... |  White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their SpeechwritersBest Price: $14.00 Schlesinger reviews each of the Presidential speech writers, from FDR through W. I found the... |  Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. KennedyBest Price: $17.95 The good `ol Texas Oil Boys (increasingly invested in defense industries) want to control,... |  Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's EnemiesBest Price: $17.27 This is one of the best books I've read all year. While the topic is dated, who now a days... |  Modern Latin America, Sixth EditionBest Price: $39.95 Thomas Skidmore is simply a genius. Modern Latin America brings a insightful and precise... |
 What's So Great about AmericaBest Price: $5.60 Very interesting to get another person's point of view; especially someone who is very... |  Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army WivesBest Price: $5.95 i did not get all the way through this book but the reason is because the show is absoultely... |  The Color of WaterBest Price: $8.98 I wanted to love this book. And I almost did. I was hooked at the beginning, but the further I... |  Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las VegasBest Price: $14.60 I just visited Las Vegas and loved it, it was much better than I expected it to be after having... |  The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our HistoryBest Price: $6.97 Thank you Crosby for writing this amazing piece about how an infectious disease has shaped our... |
 The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $0.02 In 1903, two years after Booker T. Washington's autobiography, "Up from Slavery",... |  Coming of Age in MississippiBest Price: $5.75 A must read for anyone interested in first hand accounts of the Civil Rights movement in the... |  TrumanBest Price: $12.45 I couldn't have been more pleased with this book. I love David McCullough and he never ceases... |  The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in historyBest Price: $6.00 Although I purchased this book a couple of years ago, I hadn't gotten to it until just now. I... |  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)Best Price: $5.00 In the classic slave narrative genre, Frederick Douglass' narrative of his life brings to life,... |
 No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980Best Price: $15.49 1970's New York, a time of polemic filth and fury with displaced art kids crashing head first... |  White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged SonBest Price: $8.04 T.W. is like one of those black lights so many of us had when we were teenagers back in the... |  Case Study Houses: 1945-1966: The California Impetus (Taschen Basic Architecture)Best Price: $5.71 I think this book is an incredible value. Wonderfully satisfying photos for the price. The... |  Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Antisemitism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Ableism, and ClassismBest Price: $33.03 Good collection of writings on these issues. I had this as a text for a course I took and I... |  Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of GermanyBest Price: $3.99 Just like a book from Barnes & Noble. Perfect Quality. No issues. No complaints. Delivered... |
 Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New HollywoodBest Price: $15.64 The book traces standard form films, two films representing the new of age of filmography, and... |  Rain of GoldBest Price: $8.25 I am Mexican American, and this book was reccommended to me by an Irish friend. I felt like I... |  Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Seagull Edition, Volume 1Best Price: $26.76 This was required for college and read several chapters before dropping the class because of an... |  Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas FootballBest Price: $5.75 Maybe it's because I am from Fort Worth, and I consider myself to be an AMATEUR local historian;... |  The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States)Best Price: $13.94 After reading David Kennedy's "Freedom from Fear" in the Oxford History series, I... |
 The FiftiesBest Price: $7.58 Have you always thought that the Fifties were merely a quiescent interlude between World War II... |  On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a NationBest Price: $14.06 This book is heartrending but also uplifting. It brings into focus a national hero, Scipio... |  Infections and Inequalities: The Modern PlaguesBest Price: $13.99 The context of epidemics is important. What happens to the poor people who have drug resistant... |  The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)Best Price: $4.34 I am not an accomplished reader so it has to really hold my attention to finish a book. This... |  April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.)Best Price: $7.98 This is a deeply moving history of the great men who believed in duty, honor, country and made... |
 Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland AmericaBest Price: $5.00 Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America This book describes the author's family... |  Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeBest Price: $10.13 Hofstadter's book was published in 1963, a period when I was a timid third grader, hands... |  The American Pageant: A History Of The Republic: CompleteBest Price: $110.03 The American Pageant continues to enjoy a reputation as one of the most popular and effective... |  On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II (V Ethel Willis White Endowed Book Series)Best Price: $13.57 On American Soil is a fact-based account of a little know event during World War II - an event... |  Hometown Revelations - How America's cities, towns, and states acquired their namesBest Price: $5.11 This is a pretty fun book to read while on road trips or looking at maps. My biggest complaint... |
 Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States)Best Price: $10.00 Kennedy vindicates the editors' choice to devote an entire volume of the Oxford History series... |  The Westies: Inside New York's Irish MobBest Price: $8.25 It isn't often that I use the word "absorbing" in my reviews, but this term certainly... |  Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn'tBest Price: $8.56 Prothero's well-written and engaging polemic consists of three parts: Part One, "The... |  Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas ChambersBest Price: $7.39 An outstanding account of one man's experiance. I liked the way the story was told with more of... |  Ava's ManBest Price: $4.00 Ava's man was Bragg's maternal grandfather who passed away before Rick was born into poverty. ... |
 Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Vintage)Best Price: $8.25 Author Douglas L. Wilson once again hits the bull's-eye, this time with a painstaking study of... |  April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed AmericaBest Price: $10.87 Dyson gives us a good work here, although not his best. He should have subtitled the work,... | |||
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