North American history: Native American |
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John Bird, Lorraine Land, Murray Macadam & Diane Engelstad
• Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty & the Future of Canada
Dee Brown
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Joseph Bruchac
• The Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends
Philip J. Deloria
• Playing Indian
Peter Edwards
• One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police & the Ipperwash Crisis
Jerome A. Greene
• Nez Perce Summer 1877: The U.S. Army & the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
Aubrey L. Haines
• An Elusive Victory: The Battle of the Big Hole
Basil Johnston
• Crazy Dave
Omer C. Stewart
• Peyote Religion: A History
Frank Waters
• Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism
C. Keith Wilbur
• Woodland Indians: An Illustrated Account of the Lifestyles of America's 1st Inhabitants
Scott Zesch
• The Captured
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North American history: U.S. 1492-1800
Colonial, Revolutionary & the Birth of a Nation |
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T.H. Breen
• Puritans & Adventurers
Ron Chepesiuk
• The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America
Carl Japikse, editor
• Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
Clay S. Jenkinson
• Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-inventing the American Republic in the 21st Century
Frank Joseph
• The Lost Treasure of King Juba: The Evidence of Africans in America before Columbus
Douglas Edward Leach
• Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces & Colonial Americans, 1677-1763
Toby Mac & Michael Tait
• Under God
Bill Mauldin
• Mud & Guts
Alice McGill
• Molly Bannaky, illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet
Donna Merwick
• Death of a Notary
Edmund S. Morgan
• The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89
Cathy Travis
• Constitution Translated for Kids
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• Good Wives: Image & Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
Barry Vann
• Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage
Gore Vidal
• Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
John Hardy Wright
• Sorcery in Salem
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North American history: U.S. 1801-1900
19th Century, Antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction & the West |
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Frederick Allen
• A Decent Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes
Deanne Blanton & Lauren M. Cook
• They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
Walter R. Borneman
• 1812: The War that Forged a Nation
William Riley Brooksher
• Bloody Hill: The Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek
Arnold R. Brown
• Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter
Dee Brown
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Karen Elizabeth Chaney
• New England Remembers: Lizzie Borden
Stephen A. Channing
• Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina
Owen Chase
• The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
William J. Cooper
• The South & the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856
Rick Geary
• The Borden Tragedy
Jerome A. Greene
• Nez Perce Summer 1877: The U.S. Army & the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
Mark Grimsley
• And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864
Aubrey L. Haines
• An Elusive Victory: The Battle of the Big Hole
Samuel W. Hankins
• Simple Story of a Soldier: Life & Service in the 2d Mississippi Infantry
William C. Harris
• North Carolina & the Coming of the Civil War
Brian Hicks
• Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste & Her Missing Crew
Paul Andrew Hutton, editor
• The Custer Reader
Michael P. Johnson
• Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia
Marc W. Kruman
• Parties & Politics in North Carolina, 1836-1865
Walter LaFeber
• The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898
Erik Larson
• Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, & the Deadliest Hurricane in History
William McCarter
• My Life in the Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of Private William McCarter, 116th Pennsylvania Infantry, edited by Kevin E. O'Brien
James L. Nelson
•  Reign of Iron
Geoffrey Perret
• Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief
Nathaniel Philbrick
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
David Rehak
• Did Lizzie Borden Axe for It?
Shekhar Shimpi
• Gold Mine! The California Gold Rush Story
Hampton Sides
• Blood & Thunder
Daniel Stashower
• The Beautiful Cigar Girl
Roy Edwin Thomas
• Come Go With Me: Old-Timer Stories from the Southern Mountains
Saral Tiwari
• Abraham Lincoln: The Civil War President
Allen W. Trelease
• White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy & Southern Reconstruction
Steven E. Woodworth & Kenneth J. Winkle
• Atlas of the Civil War
Scott Zesch
• The Captured
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North American history: U.S. 1901-1945
Early 20th Century, World War I, Roaring '20s, Great Depression & World War II |
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Stephen E. Ambrose
• Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Blanche Caldwell Barrow
• My Life with Bonnie & Clyde
Jerome Charyn
• Gangsters & Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age & the Birth of Broadway
C.S. Forester
• Hunting the Bismarck
Laura Hillenbrand
• Seabiscuit
Dan Kurzman
• No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains & the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II
Laurel Leff
• Buried by The Times: The Holocaust & America's Most Important Newspaper
Candice Millard
• The River of Doubt
Richard J. Perry
• United We Stand: A Visual Journey of Wartime Patriotism
Bill Sloan
• Given Up for Dead
Donovan Webster
• The Burma Road
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North American history: U.S. 1946-2008
Late 20th Century, the Cold War Era to present |
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Brian David Andersen
• "My God, I'm Hit!"
Diana Anhalt
• A Gathering of Fugitives: American Political Expatriates in Mexico 1948-1965
Kristen Breitweiser
• Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow
Marilyn Church
• The Art of Justice: An Eyewitness View of Thirty Infamous Trials
John Crawford
• The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq
Robert A. Divine
• Eisenhower & the Cold War
Mitchell Fink
• Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001
Clay S. Jenkinson
• Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-inventing the American Republic in the 21st Century
Gary Valentine Lachman
• Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties & the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius
Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger
• Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Toby Mac & Michael Tait
• Under God
Robert W. Norris
• Looking for the Summer
Paul Slansky
• The George W. Bush Quiz Book
William L. Smith
• Irish Priests in the United States: A Vanishing Subculture
Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew, with Annette Lawrence Drew
• Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Howard Zinn
• Terrorism & War
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North American history: Canada |
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Ted Barris
• Juno: Canadians at D-Day
Joseph Boyden
• Three Day Road
Peter Edwards
• One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police & the Ipperwash Crisis
Melissa Fay Greene
• Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
Jacqueline Langille
• Giants Angus McAskill & Anna Swan
Jennifer Niven
• Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
• The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
Bruce Nunn
• History with a Twist: Unusual Stories from Mr. Nova Scotia Know-It-All
John Ralston Saul
• Joseph Howe & the Battle for Freedom of Speech
Richard Thomas Wright & Cathryn Wellner
• Castles in the Air
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European history: England |
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Billy Bragg
• The Progressive Patriot
William Crooker & Elizabeth Peirce
• Saladin: Piracy, Mutiny & Murder on the High Seas
Thomas E. Hachey
• Britain & Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State
Victor Head
• Hereward
Harold F. Hutchison
• Edward II
Maxim Jakubowski & Nathan Braund, editors
• The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper
Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger
• The Year 1000
John E. Morris
• The Welsh Wars of Edward I
J.E. Neale
• Queen Elizabeth I
Mike Parker
• Neighbours from Hell?
Tony Robinson
• The Worst Jobs in History
A.L. Rowse
• Bosworth Field & the Wars of the Roses
James Ruddick
• Death at the Priory: Sex, Love & Murder in Victorian England
Christopher Snyder
• The World of King Arthur
Philip Sugden
• The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
Matthew Sweet
• Inventing the Victorians
Cecil Woodham-Smith
• The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
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European history: Ireland |
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Robert Baird
• Diverse Druids
Brendan Behan
• Borstal Boy
James Bonwick
• Irish Druids & Old Irish Religions
Angela Bourke
• The Burning of Bridget Cleary
Ciaran Brady, editor
• The Encyclopedia of Ireland
Ron Chepesiuk
• The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America
Matthew J. Culligan & Peter Cherici
• The Wandering Irish in Europe: Their Influence from the Dark Ages to Modern Times
Terry Deary
• Horrible Histories: Ireland
Stephen Dunford
• In Humbert's Footsteps: Mayo 1798
Peter Berresford Ellis
• The Celtic Revolution
Peter Gray
• The Irish Famine
Thomas E. Hachey
• Britain & Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State
Margaret Hawkins
• Restless Spirit
Martin McGartland
• Fifty Dead Men Walking
David McWilliams
• The Pope's Children
Don Mullan
• Eyewitness Bloody Sunday: The Truth
Ulick O'Connor
• Michael Collins & the Troubles: The Struggle for Irish Freedom 1912-1922
Trina Robbins
• Wild Irish Roses
Eric Roth, with Eileen McNamara
• The Parting Glass: A Toast to the Traditional Pubs of Ireland
Sacred Symbols: The Celts
Olive Sharkey
• Ways of Old: Traditional Life in Ireland
George Otto Simms
• Brendan the Navigator
William L. Smith
• Irish Priests in the United States: A Vanishing Subculture
Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham-Smith, Cecil Woodham-Smith & Charles Woodham
• The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849
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European history: Germany |
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Antony Beevor
• The Fall of Berlin 1945
C.S. Forester
• Hunting the Bismarck
Victor Klemperer
• I Will Bear Witness: 1933-1941, A Diary of the Nazi Years
Gerhard Ritter
• Frederick the Great: A Historical Profile
Anna Marie Sigmund
• Women of the Third Reich
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European history: Mediterranean |
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Robert E. Bell
• Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary
Robert E. Gaebel
• Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World
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European history: Scotland |
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Ben Buxton
• Mingulay: An Island & its People
Ron Chepesiuk
• The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America
Peter Berresford Ellis
• The Celtic Revolution
William Hamilton, et al
• Blind Harry's Wallace
Mairi Hedderwick
• An Eye on the Hebrides: An Illustrated Journey
Lloyd & Jenny Laing
• The Picts & the Scots
James MacKay
• William Wallace: Brave Heart
R. Andrew McDonald
• The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland's Western Seaboard in the Central Middle Ages
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European history: Spain |
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Rosa Maria Artal
• 11M-14M Onda Expansiva
Jose Luis Alvarez Emparantza (a.k.a., Txillardegi)
• Euskal Herria en el Horizonte (Basque Homeland on the Horizon)
Mark Kurlansky
• The Basque History of the World
Nicholas Rankin
• Telegram from Guernica
Giles Tremlett
• Ghosts of Spain
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European history: Wales |
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Peter Berresford Ellis
• The Celtic Revolution
Gwynfor Evans
• The Fight for Welsh Freedom
John E. Morris
• The Welsh Wars of Edward I
Mike Parker
• Neighbours from Hell?
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World history: Africa |
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Jean Davison
• The Ostrich Wakes: Struggles for Change in Highland Kenya
Martin Dugard
• Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
Frank Joseph
• The Lost Treasure of King Juba: The Evidence of Africans in America before Columbus
Michela Wrong
• I Didn't Do It for You
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World history: India |
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Alain Danielou
• A Brief History of India (L'Histoire de l'Inde)
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World history: Middle East |
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Thura Al-Windawi
• Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq
Leith Anderson
• Jesus: An Intimate Portrait of the Man, His Land & His People
Karen Armstrong
• Islam: A Short History
Carmen Bin Ladin
• Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
John Crawford
• The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq
Gawdat Gabra
• Coptic Monasteries: Egypt's Monastic Art & Architecture
T.C.F. Hopkins
• Empires, Wars, & Battles
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
• Three Cups of Tea
Jesus Muhammad-Ali
• The Evolution of the Nation of Islam
Tudor Parfitt
• The Thirteenth Gate: Travels Among the Lost Tribes of Israel
Heather Pringle
• The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, & the Everlasting Dead
Sacred Symbols: Ancient Egypt
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Periods in history: The Middle Ages |
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Bettina Bildhauer & Robert Mills, editors
• The Monstrous Middle Ages
Phyllis Pray Bober
• Art, Culture & Cuisine: Ancient & Medieval Gastronomy
Salvatore T. Bruno
• Templar Organization: The Management of Warrior Monasticism
Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger
• The Year 1000
A.L. Rowse
• Bosworth Field & the Wars of the Roses
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Periods in history: The Renaissance |
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Ann Depas-Orange & Robert C. Evans, editors
• The Birthday of Myself: Martha Moulsworth, Renaissance Poet
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Periods in history: The Age of Sail |
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Owen Chase
• The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
David Cordingly
• Under the Black Flag
William S. Crooker
• Pirates of the North Atlantic
William Crooker & Elizabeth Peirce
• Saladin: Piracy, Mutiny & Murder on the High Seas
Mike Dash
• Batavia's Graveyard
Joan Druett
• In the Wake of Madness
• She Captains: Heroines & Hellions of the Sea
Joyce Glasner
• Pirates & Privateers
Neil Hanson
• The Custom of the Sea
Brian Hicks
• Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste & Her Missing Crew
Edward Lodi
• Nantucket Sleigh-Ride
Sara Lorimer
• Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas
Dallas Murphy
• Rounding the Horn
James L. Nelson
• Reign of Iron
Nathaniel Philbrick
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Diana & Michael Preston
• A Pirate of Exquisite Mind
David J. Seibold & Charles J. Adams III
• Shipwrecks & Legends 'Round Cape May
Rayner Thrower
• The Pirate Picture
Jane Yolen
• The Ballad of the Pirate Queens
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Periods in history: World War II |
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Stephen E. Ambrose
• Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Ted Barris
• Juno: Canadians at D-Day
James Bradley
• Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
Antony Beevor
• The Fall of Berlin 1945
C.S. Forester
• Hunting the Bismarck
Pauline Hayton
• A Corporal's War: World War II Adventures of a Royal Engineer
Victor Klemperer
• I Will Bear Witness: 1933-1941, A Diary of the Nazi Years
Dan Kurzman
• No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains & the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II
Laurel Leff
• Buried by The Times: The Holocaust & America's Most Important Newspaper
Richard J. Perry
• United We Stand: A Visual Journey of Wartime Patriotism
Anna Marie Sigmund
• Women of the Third Reich
Bill Sloan
• Given Up for Dead
Wladyslaw Szpilman
• The Pianist
Donovan Webster
• The Burma Road
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General World History |
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Bill Bryson
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
Michael D. Coe, editor
• Swords & Hilt Weapons
Richard Davenport-Hines
• Gothic
Victor Davis Hanson
• Ripples of Battle
Mike Flanagan
• It's About Time: How Long History Took
Tony Judt
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Vicki Leon
• Uppity Women of Ancient Times
Ralph Lewin
• Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural & Socio-Historical Coprology
Sara Lorimer
• Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas
John Pilger, editor
• Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism & Its Triumphs
Michael Powell
• Back in the Day
Tony Robinson
• The Worst Jobs in History
Andreas Schroeder
• Cheats, Charlatans, & Chicanery
Diane Tobin, Gary A. Tobin & Scott Rubin
• In Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People
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Discovering & Re-enacting History |
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Richard Barber
• The Holy Grail: Imagination & Belief
Mark C. Carnes, editor
• Novel History: Historians & Novelists Confront America's Past
W. Hodding Carter
• A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew of Adventurers Attempts an Epic Journey to the New World
Tony Horwitz
• Confederates in the Attic
Michael Powell
• Back in the Day
Roland Wells Robbins
• Discovery at Walden
Barry Vann
• Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage
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