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 Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.59 I didn't know anything about this real story until I watched BBC Conquistadors. When I learned... |  Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for PoliticsBest Price: $10.29 A friend who said he was reminded of Joan Didion by these essays only made clear to me how much... |  Rediscovery of North AmericaBest Price: $5.36 When I was taking my Native American History class I discovered that there were two types of... |  The American Past: A Survey of American History, Enhanced EditionBest Price: $50.00 Author Joseph R. Conlin's award-winning teaching and writing styles are reflected in this... |  Making America CompleteBest Price: $38.68 Shaped with a clear political chronology, Making America reflects the variety of individual... |
 White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)Best Price: $16.20 This book presents the old conspiratorial arguments of the left about their opponents. The basic... |  Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg (Crown Journeys)Best Price: $5.14 Excellent. Good as history and good as a walking and driving guide to the battlefield. Better... |  The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)Best Price: $19.75 I read the Creation of the American Republic for my U.S. Consitutional History Class. Admitedly... |  Secret History: The CIAs Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala 1952-1954Best Price: $13.97 The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has... |  The American Nation, Single Volume Edition (11th Edition)Best Price: $25.00 It came very soon after I had ordered it and it was in the exact condition that I payed for.... |
 Contending Voices: Biographical Explorations of the American Past, Volume I: To 1877Best Price: $32.20 Each chapter in Contending Voices examines the lives of two individuals, some of them familiar... |  Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American EducationBest Price: $15.65 It's sometimes easwier to talk about race rather than class--but this is a subject that's been... |  African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Combined VolumeBest Price: $71.46 African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom is designed to help students in a survey course... |  Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book)Best Price: $18.66 This is a wonderful book to evoke those bygone memories. The pictures bring back so many... |  The American Nation: A History of the United States, Combined Volume (13th Edition) (MyHistoryLab Series)Best Price: $101.33 This American History book is a very good, but not excellent coverage of the History of the... |
 Tequila Junction: 4th-Generation CounterinsurgencyBest Price: $14.95 LtCol Poole's books have been with me on my military deployments and contract security... |  Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil WarBest Price: $12.49 In Embattled Courage, Gerald Linderman seeks to accurately portray the civil war from the... |  The Rise of African Slavery in the AmericasBest Price: $20.00 In his work titled The Rise of Africa Slavery in the Americas, David Eltis approaches the... |  From Sea to Shining Sea for Children: Discovering God's Plan for America in Her First Half-Century of Independence, 1787-1837Best Price: $3.60 My oldest girls and I read this series, The Light and the Glory and From Sea to Shining Sea,... |  The American People, Brief Edition: Creating a Nation and a Society, Single Volume Edition (5th Edition) (Myhistorylab)Best Price: $22.00 A condensed version of The American People, Fifth Edition, this engaging text examines U.S.... |
 Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898Best Price: $11.99 Insurgent Cuba tracks the transformation of racial and gendered narratives of the revolution... |  Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805 (Dover Books on Americana)Best Price: $5.69 My 9-year old daughter and I are reading this together. She's not very interested in reading... |  The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the CarolinasBest Price: $11.15 This is a well-written, thorough book about the Revolutionary War in the Southern colonies,... |  1812: War with AmericaBest Price: $21.86 Latimer's book feels like a definitive account of a conflict that is very poorly understood or... |  After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection CombinedBest Price: $84.93 I cannot say more than this. This is the best history textbook I have ever read. This is an... |
 The Oxford History of MexicoBest Price: $39.90 This book was somewhat of a disappointment. I am an adult student of Spanish and have developed... |  This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil WarBest Price: $11.75 There are literally tons of excellent Civil War books, ranging from McPherson's own "Battle... |  Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (American Crossroads)Best Price: $19.75 I highly recommend this book. It has opened a door for me. I need to read more about native... |  Roll Call to Destiny: The Soldier's Eye View of Civil War BattlesBest Price: $6.07 This book continues the research developed in Mr. Noseworthy's previous work on the Civil War... |  Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force BaseBest Price: $18.74 George Marrett vividly recounts his memoirs of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air... |
 To Hell and BackBest Price: $7.20 "To Hell and Back" is an amazing account of Audie Murphy's real-life military service... |  The Great Arizona Orphan AbductionBest Price: $15.00 This is one of the best history books I have ever read. Not only does it focus on a little... |  Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social InequalityBest Price: $11.11 `Inside Toyland' tells the fascinating but exposing story how some children's toy stores in the... |  Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the ConstitutionBest Price: $13.45 Forrest McDonald has written some exciting work on the Constitutional era in American history. ... |  Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and LiesBest Price: $12.50 Ginger, I am being quite informal here, is a self described fanatic about Niagara Falls. So am... |
 When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846Best Price: $17.00 This is an excellent book. While the book has received some criticism, anyone who has read them... |  Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)Best Price: $7.95 Although laced with facts it posed no new ideas and a majority of the reading was difficult due... |  Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive AgeBest Price: $25.19 Daniel Rodgers' thesis in Atlantic Crossings is simple and direct: "the reconstruction of... |  My Invented Country: A MemoirBest Price: $1.99 The most enjoyable thing about this book is the tone. So light, so airy, so droll. Wading my... |  In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820Best Price: $19.74 Waldstreicher is a fantastic writer who crafts a masterpiece of American history. It takes more... |
 The People: A History of Native AmericaBest Price: $63.25 This narrative takes an ethnographic approach to American Indian history from the arrival of... |  Champlain's DreamBest Price: $26.40 In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to... |  Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640 (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)Best Price: $12.95 i read this for a class in early-modern British History. The study of tracing Americas... |  The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya CollapseBest Price: $21.30 Webster's book seems as if it was a reaction to downgrade the latest "fad" theory on... |  The Unfinished Nation, Volume 1, MP w/PowerWeb : A Concise History of the American PeopleBest Price: $32.01 A good tour de force history of the United States. The only issue I saw at the time I wished... |
 Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. RockefellerBest Price: $14.00 Exceptionally well written book by a renowned current day investigative reporter about one of... |  After Fidel, Updated Edition: Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba's RevolutionBest Price: $7.22 The author is very astute and informed. This book will open your eyes to the total affect... |  War and Liberty: An American Dilemma: 1790 to the PresentBest Price: $8.69 An essential work on the challenges of preserving civil liberties in wartime by a preeminent... |  Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940Best Price: $17.78 Renda's book illuminates the early stages of America's invisible empire: providing an excellent... |  The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $5.50 This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. William Edward Burghardt Du... |
 Castaway: The Narrative of Alvar N??ez Cageza de VacaBest Price: $13.80 I have learned to dispise the Spanish colonizers for their actions in the New World. I have... |  Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old MexicoBest Price: $8.95 Thomas' "Conquest" was, along with Bernal Diaz del Castillo's first hand account, my... |  The Hidden History of 9-11Best Price: $12.00 THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11, edited by Paul Zarembka, professor of economics at SUNY Buffalo, is... |  Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest, Second Edition (Ancient Peoples and Places)Best Price: $14.48 I enjoyed this volume because I lived briefly in Arizona and saw some of the ruins (Montezuma... |  Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in HondurasBest Price: $17.95 Working Hard and Drinking Hard is required reading for people who are concerned about the... |
 Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and SeventiesBest Price: $19.62 This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. In the 1960s and 1970s... | ||||
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