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- "I heard you paint houses" : Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and closing the case on Jimmy Hoffa
- 100 days : how four events in 1969 shaped America
- 100 years of women's suffrage : a University of Illinois Press anthology
- 140 days to Hiroshima : the story of Japan's last chance to avert Armageddon
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 1940 : FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler--the election amid the storm
- 1941 : fighting the shadow war : a divided America in a world at war
- 1943 : days of peril, year of victory
- 1957 : the year that launched the American future
- 1967 : the year of fire and ice
- 1968 : the rise and fall of the new American Revolution
- 1971 : a year in the life of color
- 1983 : Reagan, Andropov, and a world on the brink
- 30 days a black man : the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow South
- A Christmas far from home : an epic tale of courage and survival during the Korean War
- A Christmas far from home : an epic tale of courage and survival during the Korean War
- A Cuban refugee's journey to the American dream : the power of education
- A blueprint for war : FDR and the hundred days that mobilized America
- A brief history of the Cold War
- A call to arms : mobilizing America for World War II
- A covert action : Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War struggle in Poland
- A crowded hour : Milwaukee during the Great War, 1917-1918
- A cruel and shocking act : the secret history of the Kennedy assassination
- A death in the islands : the unwritten law and the last trial of Clarence Darrow
- A drop of treason : Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA
- A field of their own : women and American Indian history, 1830-1941
- A first-class catastrophe : the road to Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history
- A force so swift : Mao, Truman, and the birth of modern China, 1949
- A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
- A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
- A good American family
- A good American family : a red scare and my father
- A hero on Mount St. Helens : the life and legacy of David A. Johnston
- A history of private policing in the United States
- A land apart : the Southwest and the Nation in the twentieth century
- A lie too big to fail : the real history of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A matter of honor : Pearl Harbor: betrayal, blame, and a family's quest for justice
- A matter of honor : Pearl Harbor: betrayal, blame, and a family's quest for justice
- A mighty force : Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and her war for public health
- A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses and misuses of civil rights history
- A most wicked conspiracy : the last great swindle of the Gilded Age
- A nation forged by crisis : a new American history
- A nation without borders : the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910
- A nice place to visit : tourism and urban revitalization in the postwar Rustbelt
- A night at the Sweet Gum Head : drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution
- A people's war on poverty : urban politics and grassroots actitivists in Houston
- A rabble of dead money : the great crash and the global depression: 1929-1939
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A second reckoning : race, injustice, and the last hanging in Annapolis
- A spy in Canaan : how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement
- A square meal : a culinary history of the Great Depression
- A story of Jewish experience in Mississippi
- A testament of hope : the essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A third term for FDR : the election of 1940
- A thirsty land : the making of an American water crisis
- A thousand small sanities : the moral adventure of liberalism
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A torch kept lit : great lives of the twentieth century
- A very principled boy : the life of Duncan Lee, Red spy and cold warrior
- Accidental presidents : eight men who changed America
- Across the waves : how the United States and France shaped the international age of radio
- Act of war : Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the capture of the spy ship Pueblo
- Active measures : the secret history of disinformation and political warfare
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- After redlining : the urban reinvestment movement in the era of financial deregulation
- After silence : a history of AIDS through its images
- After the fall : the remarkable comeback of Richard Nixon
- Against their will : the secret history of medical experimentation on children in cold war America
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster, and the German resistance in WWII
- Agents of influence : a British campaign, a Canadian spy, and the secret plot to bring America into World War II
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alger Hiss : framed : a new look at the case that made Nixon famous
- All about the story : news, power, politics, and the Washington post
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All that glitters : Anna Wintour, Tina Brown, and the rivalry inside America's richest media empire
- All the president's men
- All the presidents' bankers : the hidden alliances that drive American power
- All the truth is out : the week politics went tabloid
- All this marvelous potential : Robert Kennedy's 1968 tour of Appalachia
- Allies at odds : America, Europe, and Vietnam, 1961-1968
- Aloha rodeo : three Hawaiian cowboys, the world's greatest rodeo, and a hidden history of the American West
- America and the Great War : a Library of Congress illustrated history
- America for Americans : a history of xenophobia in the United States
- America in the Teens
- America's Sherlock Holmes : the legacy of William Burns
- America's great game : the CIA's secret Arabists and the shaping of the modern Middle East
- America's greatest library : an illustrated history of the Library of Congress
- America's other Muslims : Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic reform, and the making of American Islam
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America's secret history : how the deep state, the Fed, the JFK, MLK, and RFK assassinations, and much more led to Donald Trump's presidency
- American Nietzsche : a history of an icon and his ideas
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Warsaw : the rise, fall, and rebirth of Polish Chicago
- American conspiracies : lies, lies, and more dirty lies that the government tells us
- American detective : behind the scenes of famous criminal investigations
- American endurance : Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the vanishing Wild West
- American exceptionalism and American innocence : a people's history of fake news, from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
- American girls in red Russia : chasing the Soviet dream
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American imperial pastoral : the architecture of US colonialism in the Philippines
- American maelstrom : the 1968 election and the politics of division
- American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race
- American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race
- American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race
- American philosophy : a love story
- American progressivism : a reader
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- American serial killers : the epidemic years 1950-2000
- Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century
- Americans in the treasure house : travel to Porfirian Mexico and the cultural politics of empire
- An American language : the history of Spanish in the United States
- An idea whose time has come : two presidents, two parties, and the battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- An idea whose time has come : two presidents, two parties, and the battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- An unlikely trust : Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the improbable partnership that remade American business
- And the band played on : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic
- Anointed with oil : how Christianity and crude made modern America
- Answering the call : an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America
- Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the Moon
- Apollo : the mission to land a man on the moon
- Appetite for definition : an A-Z guide to rock genres
- April 4, 1968 : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death and how it changed America
- Arab Routes : Pathways to Syrian California
- Arc of justice : a saga of race, civil rights, and murder in the Jazz Age
- Architects of occupation : American experts and the planning for postwar Japan
- Arizona's deadliest gunfight : draft resistance and tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918
- Arkansas in modern America since 1930
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Ashes under water : the SS Eastland and the shipwreck that shook America
- Assassinations, threats, and the American presidency : from Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama
- Astral weeks : a secret history of 1968
- Atlas of World War II : history's greatest conflict revealed through rare wartime maps and new cartography
- Austin to ATX : the hippies, pickers, slackers, & geeks who transformed the capital of Texas
- Bad faith : race and the rise of the religious right
- Bad land : an American romance
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House
- Baking powder wars : the cutthroat food fight that revolutionized cooking
- Ballots and bullets : Black Power politics and urban guerrilla warfare in 1968 Cleveland
- Barrio America : How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
- Baseless : my search for secrets in the ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Battle for the marble palace : Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the forging of the modern Supreme Court
- Battle green Vietnam : the 1971 march on Concord, Lexington, and Boston
- Becoming Ronald Reagan : the rise of a conservative icon
- Before the storm : Barry Goldwater and the unmaking of the American consensus
- Behind barbed wire : searching for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II
- Behold, America : a history of "America first" and "the American dream"
- Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Betrayal : a member of the Kennedy honor guard speaks
- Betrayal at Little Gibraltar : a German fortress, a treacherous American general, and the battle to end World War I
- Betrayal in Dallas : LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the murder of President Kennedy
- Betty Ford : first lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between Mao and McCarthy : Chinese American politics in the Cold War years
- Beyond memory : Italian protestants in Italy and America
- Beyond respectability : the intellectual thought of race women
- Beyond the sunshine : a timeline of Florida's past
- Big Sur : the making of a prized California landscape
- Big apple gangsters : the rise and decline of the mob in New York
- Big bosses : a working girl's memoir of Jazz Age America
- Bill Clinton
- Billy Graham : American pilgrim
- Bio-politicizing Cary Grant : pressing race, class and ethnicity into service in "Amerika"
- Birdmen : the wright brothers, glenn curtiss, and the battle to control the skies
- Black Dahlia, Red Rose : the crime, corruption, and cover-up of America's greatest unsolved murder
- Black Death at the Golden Gate : the race to save America from the bubonic plague
- Black Power 50
- Black bourgeoisie
- Black cowboys in the American West : on the range, on the stage, behind the badge
- Black power in the Bluff City : African American youth and student activism in Memphis, 1965-1975
- Blood at the root : a racial cleansing in America
- Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy
- Blood will tell : Native Americans and assimilation policy
- Bluff City : the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
- Bluffing Texas style : the arsons, forgeries, and high stakes poker capers of rare book dealer Johnny Jenkins
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Boom, bust, exodus : the Rust Belt, the maquilas, and a tale of two cities
- Borderline citizens : the United States, Puerto Rico, and the politics of colonial migration
- Born to serve : a history of Texas Southern University
- Bound by war : how the United States and the Philippines built America's first Pacific century
- Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community
- Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community
- Branch line empires : the Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads
- Branding Hoover's FBI : how the boss's PR men sold the Bureau to America
- Breaking Rockefeller : the incredible story of the ambitious rivals who toppled an oil empire
- Breaking white supremacy : Martin Luther King Jr. and the black social gospel
- Broken glory : the final years of Robert F. Kennedy : a graphic history
- Brooklyn : the once and future city
- Brothers down : Pearl Harbor and the fate of the many brothers aboard the USS Arizona
- Brown in the Windy City : Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago
- Bubble in the sun
- Buffalo Bill Cody, a man of the west
- Building Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright's home of love and loss
- Building the Great Society : inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
- Bulletins from Dallas : reporting the JFK assassination
- Bulwark against the bay : the people of Corpus Christi and their seawall
- Bunk : the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts, and fake news
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an Amercian style legend
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Burden : a preacher, a klansman, and a true story of redemption in the modern south
- Burning down the house : Newt Gingrich, the fall of a speaker, and the rise of the new Republican Party
- Burning the sky : Operation Argus and the untold story of the cold war nuclear tests in outer space
- Burying the lead : the media and the JFK assassination
- Buzz : a stimulating history of the sex toy
- CIA rogues and the killing of the Kennedys : how and why US agents conspired to kill JFK and RFK
- California at war : the state and the people during World War I
- Can't slow down : how 1984 became pop's blockbuster year
- Carlisle Indian Industrial School : indigenous histories, memories, and reclamations
- Carrying the fire : an astronaut's journeys
- Carter G. Woodson : history, the Black press, and public relations
- Carville's cure : leprosy, stigma, and the fight for justice
- Century of the leisured masses : entertainment and the transformation of twentieth-century America
- Chaos : Charles Manson, the CIA, and the secret history of the sixties
- Chasing Phil : the adventures of two undercover agents with the world's most charming con man
- Chicago Renaissance : literature and art in the midwest metropolis
- Chicago on the make : power and inequality in a modern city
- Chicago transformed : World War I and the Windy City
- Chicana movidas : new narratives of activism and feminism in the movement era
- Chief of Staff : Lyndon Johnson and His Presidency
- Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
- Child prisoner in American concentration camps
- Child survivors of the Holocaust : the youngest remnant and the American experience
- Children and youth in adoption, orphanages, and foster care : a historical handbook and guide
- Children of the dream : why school integration works
- Children of the silent majority : young voters and the rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980
- Christmas greetings from the presidents
- Citizen reporters : S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the magazine that rewrote America
- Citizens at last : the woman suffrage movement in Texas
- City girls : the Nisei social world in Los Angeles, 1920-1950
- City of champions
- City of dreams : Dodger Stadium and the birth of modern Los Angeles
- City of nets : a portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
- Clear it with Sid! : Sidney R. Yates and fifty years of presidents, pragmatism, and public service
- Clio among the muses : essays on history and the humanities
- Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
- Cold days in hell : American POWs in Korea
- Collected essays
- Colorado women in World War II
- Columbine
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Competition in the Promised Land : black migrants in northern cities and labor markets
- Confidential Confidential : the inside story of Hollywood's notorious scandal magazine
- Conflict and cooperation : reflections on the new deal in Texas
- Confronting hate : the untold story of the rabbi who stood up for human rights, racial justice, and religious reconciliation
- Contempt : a memoir of the Clinton investigation
- Continental divide : a history of American mountaineering
- Corporate conspiracies : how Wall Street took over Washington
- Countdown 1945 : the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
- Countdown 1945 : the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
- Countdown to Pearl Harbor : the twelve days to the attack
- Country music
- Cowboy presidents : the frontier myth and U.S. politics since 1900
- Crash course : from the good war to the forever war
- Creepy crawling : Charles Manson and the many lives of America's most infamous family
- Crucible : thirteen months that forged our world
- Crusaders, gangsters, and whiskey : prohibition in Memphis
- Crystal Eastman : a revolutionary life
- Cuba libre! : Che, Fidel, and the improbable revolution that changed world history
- Dallas '63 : the first deep state revolt against the White House
- Damaged heritage : the Elaine Race Massacre and a story of reconciliation
- Dangerous grounds : antiwar coffeehouses and military dissent in the Vietnam era
- Dark alliance : the CIA, the Contras, and the crack cocaine explosion
- Dark quadrant : organized crime, big business, and the corruption of American democracy
- Deadly Dallas : a history of unfortunate incidents & grisly fatalities
- Death of a King : the real story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final year
- Deep delta justice : a black teen, his lawyer, and their groundbreaking battle for civil rights in the South
- Deep undercover : my secret life & tangled allegiances as a KGB spy in America
- Defenders of the unborn : the pro-life movement before Roe v. Wade
- Defenseless under the night : the Roosevelt years and the origins of Homeland Security
- Delta epiphany : Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
- Deluxe Jim Crow : civil rights and American health policy, 1935-1954
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Desegregating Dixie : the Catholic church in the South and desegregation, 1945-1992
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny of democracy : the Civil Rights summit at the LBJ Presidential library
- Devil in the grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America
- Dewey defeats Truman : the 1948 election and the battle for America's soul
- Did it! from yippie to yuppie : Jerry Rubin, an American revolutionary
- Dinner in Camelot : the night America's greatest scientists, writers, and scholars partied at the Kennedy White House
- Diplomacy
- Dirty hands and vicious deeds : the US government's complicity in crimes against humanity and genocide
- Dirty tricks : Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA
- Discriminating taste : how class anxiety created the American food revolution
- Disney's land : Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world
- Divided highways : building the interstate highways, transforming American life
- Don't blame us : suburban liberals and the transformation of the Democratic party
- Donovan's Devils : OSS commandos behind enemy lines - Europe, World War II
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Double crossed : the missionaries who spied for the US during the Second World War
- Down to the crossroads : civil rights, Black power, and the Meredith march against fear
- Dragon's jaw : an epic story of courage and tenacity in Vietnam
- Dreamers and deceivers : true stories of the heroes and villains who made America
- Drive! : Henry Ford, George Selden, and the race to invent the auto age
- Driving while black : African American travel and the road to civil rights
- Drug lord : the life and death of a Mexican kingpin : a true story
- Dust bowl girls : the inspiring story of the team that barnstormed its way to basketball glory
- Edward M. Kennedy : an oral history
- Eight days at Yalta : how Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin shaped the post-war world
- Eight years to the moon : the history of the Apollo missions
- Eisenhower : soldier and president
- Eisenhower vs. Warren : the battle for civil rights and liberties
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt : in her words : on women, politics, leadership, and lessons from life
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
- Eliot Ness and the mad butcher : hunting America's deadliest unidentified serial killer at the dawn of modern criminology
- Elizabeth and Hazel : two women of Little Rock
- Empire in retreat : the past, present, and future of the United States
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empires of the senses : bodily encounters in imperial India and the Philippines
- Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present : from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century
- Enemies in love : a German POW, a Black nurse, and an unlikely romance
- Enemies of the state : the radical right in America from FDR to Trump
- Enemy of the people : Trump's war on the press, the new McCarthyism, and the threat to American democracy
- Equal means equal : why the time for an equal rights amendment is now
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Everybody had an ocean : music and mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles
- Evidence of being : the black gay cultural renaissance and the politics of violence
- Executing the Rosenbergs : death and diplomacy in a Cold War world
- Expanding the black film canon : race and genre across six decades
- Exploding the truth : the JFK, Jr., assassination
- Exploring women's suffrage through 50 historic treasures
- Eye of the sixties : Richard Bellamy and the transformation of modern art
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fake politics : how corporate and government groups create and maintain a monopoly on truth
- Fall from grace : the truth and tragedy of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
- Fan in chief : Richard Nixon and American sports, 1969-1974
- Fatal vision
- Fate is the hunter
- Father of the Tuskegee airmen : John C. Robinson
- Fault lines : a history of the United States since 1974
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas and other American stories
- Fear city : New York's fiscal crisis and the rise of austerity politics
- Feast of excess : a cultural history of the new sensibility
- Fierce enigmas : a history of the United States in South Asia
- Fifty years of 60 minutes : the inside story of television's most influential news broadcast
- Fight house : rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump
- Fighting words : the bold American journalists who brought the world home between the wars
- Finding magic : a spiritual memoir
- Fireball : Carole Lombard and the mystery of Flight 3
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First in line : presidents, vice presidents, and the pursuit of power
- First ladies and American women : in politics and at home
- Five days in November
- Flashpoint : how a little-known sporting event fueled America's anti-apartheid movement
- Floyd Patterson : the fighting life of boxing's invisible champion
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Footnotes : the Black artists who rewrote the rules of the Great White Way
- Forever prisoners : how the United States made the world's largest immigrant detention system
- Forging a president : how the wild west created Teddy Roosevelt
- Forging the star : the official modern history of the United States Marshals Service
- Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- Fort Worth between the world wars
- Fortress America : how we embraced fear and abandoned democracy
- Fostering on the farm : child placement in the rural Midwest
- Four hours of fury : the untold story of World War II's largest airborne invasion and the final push into Nazi Germany
- Franchise : the golden arches in black America
- Frank + Al : FDR, Al Smith, and the unlikely alliance that created the modern Democratic Party
- Frankie and Johnny : race, gender, and the work of African American folklore in 1930s America
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Freak kingdom : Hunter S. Thompson's manic ten-year crusade against American fascism
- Freedom libraries : the untold story of libraries for African Americans in the South
- Freedom summer : a brief history with documents
- Freedom's daughters : the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970
- Freedom's racial frontier : African Americans in the twentieth-century West
- From America to Norway : Norwegian-American immigrant letters, 1838-1914
- From Warsaw with love : Polish spies, the CIA, and the forging of an unlikely alliance
- From development to dictatorship : Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era
- From preaching to meddling : a white minister in the civil rights movement
- Front porch politics : the forgotten heyday of American activism in the 1970s and 1980s
- Frontiers of boyhood : imagining America, past and future
- GI brides : the wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love
- GI brides : the wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love
- Gambling with Armageddon : Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
- Garveyism as a religious movement : the institutionalization of a Black civil religion
- Gay bar : the fabulous, true story of a daring woman and her boys in the 1950s