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  • A Fever in the Heartland

    The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

    by Timothy Egan ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year • A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist"With narrative elan, Egan gives us a riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Criminology on Trump

    by Gregg Barak ...
    Series series Crimes of the Powerful
    Criminology on Trump is a criminological investigation of the world’s most successful outlaw, Donald J. Trump. Over the course of five decades, Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault, tax evasion, money laundering, non-payment of employees, and the defrauding of tenants, customers, contractors, investors, bankers, and charities. Yet, he has continued to amass wealth and power. In this ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Driving the Green Book

    A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance

    by Alvin Hall ...
    Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers experienced locked doors, hostile police, and potentially violent encounters almost everywhere, in both the South and the North. From 1936 to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dust Bowl Girls

    The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory

    by Lydia Reeder ...
    **“A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend.” —Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of *Liar, Temptress, Soldier, SpyThe Boys in the Boat* meets A League of Their Own in this true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team.**In the early 1930s, during the worst drought and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • American Vikings

    How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America

    A vivid and illuminating new history—separate fact from fiction, myth from legend—exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration continues to grip our attention. As a result, for more than a millennium the Vikings have traveled far and wide, not least across the turbulent ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Montcalm and Wolfe

    Classic work of history about the war between France and England for Canada. According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as ... Read more

    $1.16 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Return of the Bison

    A Story of Survival, Restoration, and a Wilder World

    Offers a hopeful view of threatened species, grounded in history and scienceAddresses current conservation trends: wildlife corridors, prairie restoration, cultural restoration for the American Indian communityReturn of the Bison is the story of how this symbol of the American West was once almost lost to history and of the continuing journey to bring bison back from the brink. Author and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A History of Magic and Witchcraft

    Sabbats, Satan & Superstitions in the West

    The author of Magic and Masculinity explores the history and development of magic and witchcraft in Western society.Broomsticks, cauldrons, familiars, and spells—magic and witchcraft conjure a vivid picture in our modern-day imagination. While much of our understanding is rooted in superstition and myth, the history of magic and witchcraft offers a window into the past. It illuminates the lives of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Slow Rush of Colonization

    Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790

    by Thomas Peace ...
    In 1760, after Montcalm’s defeat at the Plains of Abraham, the French Empire was definitively expelled from the Saint Lawrence Valley.This history is well known.Less well known is that this decisive victory had its roots almost a hundred years earlier, when settler colonial systems of power first took root on the peripheries of the Maritime Peninsula (the places known today as Quebec, Maritime ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Story that Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West

    In this classic narrative history of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the 1950s and 1960s, Russell Martin has captured the individual, cultural, political, and environmental dramas that brought about the environmental movement we know today.Across the American West, calls for the removal of hydroelectric dams constructed during the Bureau of Reclamation's grand century of dam-building are ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Founding Feuds

    The Rivalries, Clashes, and Conflicts That Forged a Nation

    by Paul Aron ...
    The fascinating untold stories of America's founding fathers!The Founding Fathers have been hailed for centuries as shining examples of men who put aside their own agendas to found a nation. But behind the scenes, there were more petty fights and fraught relationships than signatures on the Declaration of Independence.From the violent brawl between Roger Griswold and Matthew Lyon in the halls of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERNew York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022Best Books of 2022 — New Yorker, Kirkus ReviewsLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence“I can only wish that, when I was that lonely college junior and was finishing Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I’d had Hämäläinen’s book at hand.” —David Treuer, The New Yorker“[T]he single best book I have ever read on ... Read more

    $26.99 USD $15.99 USD

  • In Whose Ruins

    Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire

    In this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fiction—with profound repercussions for politics past and present.Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal, presenting a national identity based on harvesting treasures that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Imperial

    From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFor generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Asian American Histories of the United States

    Series Book 7 - ReVisioning History
    An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US historyOriginal and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, award-winning ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The American Yawp

    A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877

    Edited by Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright ...
    "I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of GrassThe American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • American History Book

    This Mind-Opening Guide Reveals Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong About Abraham Lincoln, American Inventions, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John F. Kennedy and More

    Among the most exclusive ebooks on American History this book gives you surefire facts that your textbook got wrong about Abraham Lincoln, American Inventions, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John F. Kennedy and much more that you'll love. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Loxleys and the War of 1812 Novel

    The Novelisation

    by Alan Grant ...
    On June 18th, 1812, the United States of America declared war on Great Britain and looked to conquering Canada as the first military objective of the war. Adapted by the author himself from the best-selling graphic novel, this novelisation introduces the Loxleys, a Canadian family living in the Niagara peninsula, as they're torn apart by the American invasion, and the subsequent war that raged ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Marooned

    Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin

    by Joseph Kelly ...
    For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth.We all know the great American origin story: It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled “shining city on a hill.” Legend ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Naufragios

    Esta narrativa es la más interesante y fácil de leer de todas las "cartas de Indias" por ser la más extraña e irónica. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca pensó viajar a América como muchos héroes antes de él y ganar su fortuna y su honra. Un fracaso tras otro -- de los que él nunca tiene la culpa -- le impide cumplir su sueño y lo detiene flaco, hambriento y desesperado en el sureste de los hoy Estados ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Неизвестный Линкольн

    От автора бестселлера «Как завоёвывать друзей и оказывать влияние на людей»

    “Неизвестный Линкольн” - единственный биографический труд знаменитого писателя и педагога Дейла Карнеги, вышедший в свет в 1932-ом году. Книга посвящена личной жизни одного из величайших президентов США Авраама Линкольна, и на фоне современных представлений о непоколебимом величии Штатов и президенте-герое Линкольне, который разбил в дребезги рабовладельческий строй, она просто революционна, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Nations

    A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    by Colin Woodard ...
    **• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America**According to award-winning journalist and historian ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • In the Kingdom of Ice

    The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

    by Hampton Sides ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book in every way…a marvelous nonfiction thriller.” —The Wall Street JournalOn July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • American History in 50 Events

    History by Country Timeline, #1

    by Henry Freeman ...
    Series Book 1 - History by Country Timeline
    American History in 50 EventsHave you ever wondered why America is the way it is?Do you want to understand the events that have shaped American culture?Are you interested in seeing the long-term historical connections that explain how America moved from a group of colonies to the most powerful nation in history?If so, this book is for you. In simple, straightforward language, this book will take ... Read more

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