American History
The stories of America unfold through pivotal moments, legendary figures, and the complex forces that shaped a nation - from Revolutionary spies and Civil War commanders to modern presidents and cultural transformations. These compelling accounts illuminate the triumphs, struggles, and decisions that echo through time, revealing how determined individuals and powerful ideas have steered the American experiment.
American History Book Summaries
Empire of Cotton
A Global History
History
Economics
World History
War Against the Weak
Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
History
Politics
Science
Panama Fever
The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-the Building of the Panama Canal
History
Science
Engineering
The Conservative Sensibility
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Second Coming of the KKK
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
History
Politics
American History
Nemesis
The Last Days of the American Republic
Politics
History
War
When Affirmative Action Was White
An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
History
Race
Politics
Let Them Eat Tweets
How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
Politics
History
Economics
Great American Hypocrites
Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
Politics
History
Government
Unworthy Republic
The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
History
American History
Politics
Shadow Network
Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
Politics
History
American History
White Identity Politics
Politics
Race
Political Science
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
History
American History
Politics
American Slavery, American Freedom
History
American History
Race
How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
Politics
History
Political Science
American Crucible
Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
History
American History
Race
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
Politics
History
Political Science
Cuba
An American History
History
Politics
American History
Illiberal America
A History
History
Politics
American History
Social Darwinism in American Thought
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Longest Line on the Map
The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas
History
Travel
Politics
The Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory
History
American History
Military History
Progressivism
A Very Short Introduction
Politics
History
Ebooks
The Last Founding Father
James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
Biography
Presidents
History
The White House Is Burning
August 24, 1814
History
American History
Middle Grade
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
Economics
History
Business
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
History
Race
Economics
Homegrown
Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
History
True Crime
Politics
Blowback
The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Politics
History
War
The Case Against Socialism
Politics
Economics
History
American Exceptionalism
A Double-Edged Sword
Politics
Sociology
American History
The Right Stuff
History
Space
Science
Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins
History
Biography
Historical
A Nation of Deadbeats
An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
History
Economics
Politics
The Nine
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Politics
History
Law
A Necessary Evil
A History of American Distrust of Government
History
Politics
American History
It's Even Worse Than It Looks
How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism
Politics
History
Political Science
Freedom’s Dominion
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
History
Politics
Race
The Populist Explosion
How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
Politics
History
Economics
King of Kings
The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
History
Politics
Middle East
Whiteness of a Different Color
European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
History
Race
Sociology
American Grace
How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Religion
Politics
Sociology
Laboratories of Autocracy
A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines
Politics
History
Political Science
The Guarded Gate
Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
History
Politics
American History
1812
The War That Forged a Nation
History
American History
War
Democracy in Chains
The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Politics
History
Economics
Bring the War Home
The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
History
Politics
Race
The Reactionary Spirit
How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World
Politics
History
Essays
Four Threats
The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
Politics
History
Political Science
Red Summer
The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
History
American History
Race
