#historicalfiction #histfic #paperback #classic #americanhistory #western #childhoodclassic

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

The Little House on the Prairie

#paperback #americanhistory #wrightbrothers

Alaska

"David McCullough once again tells a dramatic story of people and technology, this time about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright"--Provided by publisher.

The Wright Brothers

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A very brief book about the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath. #history #americanhistory #japanesehistory

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times).

Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.

Hiroshima

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#hardcover #nonfiction #secretservice #polysci #politicalscience #history #americanhistory #bestseller #mustread #politics 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work—the determinative work—in this field. . . . Terrifying.”—Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6—by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius and I Alone Can Fix It Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today—from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by its failure to protect the president on that fateful day in Dallas, this once-sleepy agency was radically transformed into an elite, highly trained unit that would redeem itself several times, most famously in 1981 by thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and excellence would not last forever. By Barack Obama’s presidency, the once-proud Secret Service was running on fumes and beset by mistakes and alarming lapses in judgment: break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing into the windows of the residence while confused agents stood by, and a massive prostitution scandal among agents in Cartagena, to name just a few. With Donald Trump’s arrival, a series of promised reforms were cast aside, as a president disdainful of public service instead abused the Secret Service to rack up political and personal gains. To explore these problems in the ranks, Leonnig interviewed dozens of current and former agents, government officials, and whistleblowers who put their jobs on the line to speak out about a hobbled agency that’s in desperate need of reform. “I will be forever grateful to them for risking their careers,” she writes, “not because they wanted to share tantalizing gossip about presidents and their families, but because they know that the Service is broken and needs fixing. By telling their story, they hope to revive the Service they love.”

Zero Fail

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#history #americanhistory #abrahamlincoln #civilwar #biography 

The High Command of the Army of the Potomac

From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac



"A masterful synthesis . . . A narrative about amazing courage and astonishing gutlessness . . . It explains why Union movements worked and, more often, didn't work in clear-eyed explanatory prose that's vivid and direct." -- Chicago Tribune



The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.

President Lincoln oversaw, argued with, and finally tamed his unruly team of lieutenants as the eastern army was stabilized by an unsung supporting cast of corps, division, and brigade generals. With characteristic style and insight, Stephen Sears brings these courageous, determined officers, who rose through the ranks and led from the front, to life and legend. 

 

"[A] massive, elegant study . . . A staggering work of research by a masterly historian." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Lincoln's Lieutenants

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#paperback #History #Americanrevolution #GeorgeWashington #conspiracy #Americanhistory #Biography

Ohio

The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA.

In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York, William Tryon, and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington himself.

This is the story of the secret plot and how it was revealed. It is a story of leaders, liars, counterfeiters, and jailhouse confessors. It also shows just how hard the battle was for George Washington and how close America was to losing the Revolutionary War.

In this historical page-turner, New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer teams up with American history writer and documentary television producer, Josh Mensch to unravel the shocking true story behind what has previously been a footnote in the pages of history. Drawing on extensive research, Meltzer and Mensch capture in riveting detail how George Washington not only defeated the most powerful military force in the world, but also uncovered the secret plot against him in the tumultuous days leading up to July 4, 1776.

The First Conspiracy

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#usa #history #americanhistory #veteran #paperback 

Oregon

Remembering My Veteran Friends and Guests from Living History Days

Remembrance Volume 2

#hardcover #nonfiction #americanrevolution #johnadams #biography #history #foundingfathers #americanhistory 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the United States.

John Adams

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#hardcover #nonfiction #signed #jonmeacham #history #americanhistory #politics #pulitzer #
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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oklahoma

The Battle for Our Better Angels

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women’s rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson’s crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in our national life have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear—a struggle that continues even now. While the American story has not always—or even often—been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, “The good news is that we have come through such darkness before”—as, time and again, Lincoln’s better angels have found a way to prevail. Praise for The Soul of America “Brilliant, fascinating, timely . . . With compelling narratives of past eras of strife and disenchantment, Meacham offers wisdom for our own time.”—Walter Isaacson “Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.”—Newsday “Meacham gives readers a long-term perspective on American history and a reason to believe the soul of America is ultimately one of kindness and caring, not rancor and paranoia.”—USA Today

*SIGNED* The Soul of America

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#americanhistory #ronaldreagan #presidents #USA #politics #hardcover #biography #bio #nonfiction 

New York

An American Journey

"More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, ... [this is a] chronicle of the full arc of Ronald Reagan's epic life--giving full weight to the Hollywood years, his transition to politics and rocky but ultimately successful run as California governor, and ultimately, of course, his ... presidency, filled with storm and stress but climaxing with his peace talks with the Soviet Union"--

Reagan

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#hardcover #fiction #nonfiction #history #pilgrims #historicalfiction #ya #goodhistory #americanhistory #rushrevere #series #bundle


Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Virginia

Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans

Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to experience American history as it happens aboard the Mayflower and on Plymouth Plantation.

Rush Revere Series (first 4)

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#hardcover #AndrewJackson #Americanpresident #Americanhistory #Biographies

Recounts Jackson's senatorial career, presidential campaigns, and efforts, during his first administration, to restore morality to government

Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821

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#hardcover #fiction #americanhistory #history #americanindian

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Florida

Indian History of the American West

For the first time: a full-color illustrated edition of Dee Brown’s classic history of the American West!

Eloquent, heartbreaking, and meticulously documented, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee follows the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century. Upon its publication in 1970, the book was universally lauded and became a cultural phenomenon that proved instrumental in transforming public perceptions of manifest destiny and the “winning” of the West.

Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown’s work highlighted the voices of those American Indians who actually experienced the battles, massacres, and broken treaties. Here is their view of the events that ultimately left them demoralized and defeated, including: the Battle of Sand Creek; Red Cloud’s War; the Battle of the Little Bighorn; and, of course, the Wounded Knee Massacre. Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Spotted Tail—the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Cheyenne, and other tribes—come to life through their own words and formal portraits.

Now, hundreds of illustrations—including maps, photographs, sketches, and paintings—enhance Brown’s masterpiece, making it even more vivid and personal. In addition to the incredible images, this edition also features relevant excerpts from such highly acclaimed Native-American themed books as Where White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means, Mystic Chords of Memory by Michael Kammen, and Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog, as well as all-new essays by contemporary historians and Native American leaders like Elliott West and Joseph Marshall III.

 

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

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#history #ushistoey #americanhistory #nonfiction

Washington

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has turned history on its head for an entire generation of readers, telling the nation's story from the viewpoints of ordinary people--the slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans who made their own history but whose voices are typically omitted from the historical record.

The New Press's Abridged Teaching Edition of A People's History of the United States has made Zinn's original text available specifically for classroom use, with a wide range of tools for students to begin a critical inquiry into the American past. The teaching edition includes exercises and teaching materials to accompany each chapter.



A People's History of the United States

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#educational #highschool #paperback #americanhistory #history #earlyamerica

History

A Documentary History

Voices of Freedom

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#americanhistory #paperback #Pulitzerprize

#jfk #johnfkennedy #history #americanhistory #normanmailer #photography #americanpresident #hardcover 

Massachusetts

On the centennial of John F. Kennedy's birth, discover Norman Mailer's extraordinary profile of the president-to-be. This complete reprint of "Superman Comes to the Supermarket" is accompanied with more than 300 photographs of Kennedy on his path to the White House from such photojournalistic greats as Cornell Capa, Paul Schutzer, and Garry...

Norman Mailer. JFK. Superman Comes to the Supermarket

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#paperback #nonfiction #history #fiction #salem #americanhistory #pultizer #salemvillage 

Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem

Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials. The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly, confounding the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, husbands accused wives, parents and children one another. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. Speaking loudly and emphatically, adolescent girls stood at the center of the crisis. Along with suffrage and Prohibition, the Salem witch trials represent one of the few moments when women played the central role in American history. Drawing masterfully on the archives, Stacy Schiff introduces us to the strains on a Puritan adolescent's life and to the authorities whose delicate agendas were at risk. She illuminates the demands of a rigorous faith, the vulnerability of settlements adrift from the mother country, perched-at a politically tumultuous time-on the edge of what a visitor termed a "remote, rocky, barren, bushy, wild-woody wilderness." With devastating clarity, the textures and tensions of colonial life emerge; hidden patterns subtly, startlingly detach themselves from the darkness. Schiff brings early American anxieties to the fore to align them brilliantly with our own. In an era of religious provocations, crowdsourcing, and invisible enemies, this enthralling story makes more sense than ever. The Witches is Schiff 's riveting account of a seminal episode, a primal American mystery unveiled-in crackling detail and lyrical prose-by one of our most acclaimed historians.

The Witches

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A brief but necessary look at one of the US’s most infamous court cases. This book not only discusses the case but also analyzes the connection between the First Red Scare and xenophobia, detailing a wariness of far-left politics that led to the probable wrongful conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti. #immigrant #americanhistory #anarchism

A Brief History with Documents

In 1920 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and devout anarchists, were accused of robbery and murder. Their subsequent trial and execution captivated the world and exposed many of the cultural and political tensions of 1920s America. Sacco and Vanzetti’s supporters claimed the two anarchists had been persecuted for their beliefs and not their actions, while their detractors saw proof of the country’s ability to protect itself from dangerous foreign elements. Michael Topp’s unique collection of documents examines both sides and provides a clear presentation of the trial while emphasizing the broad historical context in which it was conducted. An interpretive introductory essay, document headnotes, a chronology, and questions for consideration provide further pedagogical support. A bibliographic essay and a brief discussion of artistic productions based on the trial are also included.

The Sacco and Vanzetti Case

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Missouri

A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Provides an account of the hurricane which struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900 and killed ten thousand people.

Isaac's Storm

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#educational #paperback #history bc #americanhistory 

Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination (2016 Edition)

United States History

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#hardcover #america #nationalmuseum #americanhistory #history #smithsonian

Minnesota

The National Museum of American History

#nonfiction #biography #hardcover #americanhistory #slavery 

Indiana

The Remarkable Story of Two Families who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black

A companion to the prize-winning documentary by the same name traces the stories of two families, one black and one white, who descended from the same Texas slave plantation where the author's ancestor was a forefront National Football League running back. TV tie-in. 75,000 first printing.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Little House on the Prairie

David McCullough

The Wright Brothers

John Hersey

Hiroshima

Carol Leonnig

Zero Fail

Stephen W. Sears

Lincoln's Lieutenants

Brad Meltzer; Josh Mensch

The First Conspiracy

Ken Buckles, Benjamin Blair

Remembrance Volume 2

David McCullough

John Adams

Jon Meacham

*SIGNED* The Soul of America

Bob Spitz

Reagan

Rush Limbaugh

Rush Revere Series (first 4)

Robert V. Remini

Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821

Dee Alexander Brown; Hampton Sides (Foreword by)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Howard Zinn; Kathy Emery; Ellen Reeves

A People's History of the United States

Eric Fonder

Voices of Freedom

David McCullough

The Wright Brothers

Norman Mailer; J. Michael Lennon

Norman Mailer. JFK. Superman Comes to the Supermarket

Stacy Schiff

The Witches

Michael M. Topp

The Sacco and Vanzetti Case

Erik Larson

Isaac's Storm

Erik Larson

Isaac's Storm

John J. Newman; John M. Schmalbach

United States History

Smithsonian museum

The National Museum of American History

Chris Tomlinson

Tomlinson Hill

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