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David Aikman
Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century
Anne Applebaum
Gulag: A History
Joyce Appleby
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans
Karen Armstrong
Islam: A Short History
Hanan Ashrawi
This Side of Peace: A Personal Account
Rick Atkinson
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Bernard Bailyn
To Begin the World Anew
David Haward Bain
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
James Baker
The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989-1992
Jean Baker
The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family
Liva Baker
The Justice from Beacon Hill
George Ball
The Passionate Attachment
Bette Bao Lord
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
Louise Barnett
Touched by Fire
Thomas Barnett
The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
Michael Barone
Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan
John Barry
The Ambition & the Power
Irving Bartlett
John C. Calhoun: A Biography
Derrick Bell
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
J. Bowyer Bell
The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992
Christopher Benson
Death of Innocence
Walter Berns
Making Patriots
Richard Bernstein
The Coming Conflict with China
Michael Beschloss
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963
James Billington
Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope
Daniel Boorstin
The Creators
H.W. Brands
The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s
Clare Brandt
The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold
Alan Brinkley
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
Douglas Brinkley
The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
Richard Brookhiser
The Way of the WASP
Anthony Cave Brown
Treason in the Blood
Ronald Brownstein
The Power and the Glitter
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Grand Failure
James MacGregor Burns
The Crosswinds of Freedom
Andrew Burstein
America's Jubilee
George H. W. Bush
A World Transformed
Sen. Robert Byrd
The Senate: 1789-1989
Lou Cannon
President Reagan: A Role of a Lifetime, Part 2
Liz Carpenter
Unplanned Parenthood
Andrew Carroll
Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters
William Chafe
Never Stop Running
Iris Chang
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Robert Christopher
Crashing the Gates
Winston Churchill
The Great Republic: A History of America
Clark Clifford
Counsel to the President: A Memoir
President Bill Clinton
Between Hope & History
Andrew Cockburn
Dangerous Liaisons
Richard Cohen
Rostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics
Nadine Cohodas
Strom Thurmond & the Politics of Southern Change
Gail Collins
America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines
Ward Connerly
Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences
Robert Conquest
Reflections on a Ravaged Century
William Cooper
Jefferson Davis, American
Michael Cottman
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie
Barbara Crossette
The Great Hill Stations of Asia
Robert Dallek
Lone Star Rising
Robert Darnton
George Washington’s False Teeth
Pete Davies
American Road
Marshall DeBruhl
Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston
Michael Dobbs
Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America
Robert Dole
Historical Almanac of the United States Senate
Frederick Downs
No Longer Enemies; Not Yet Friends
Alex Dragnich
Serbs & Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia
Brian Duffy
The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation
Alan Ebenstein
Friedrich Hayek: A Biography
John S.D. Eisenhower
Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott
Michael Elliott
The Day Before Yesterday
Joseph Ellis
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
Bill Emmott
Japanophobia
Harold Evans
The American Century
Drew Gilpin Faust
Mothers of Invention
David Hackett Fischer
Paul Revere's Ride
Marc Fisher
After the Wall: Germany, The Germans, and the Burdens of History
Gilbert Fite
Richard B. Russell, Jr.: Senator from Georgia
Marlin Fitzwater
Call the Briefing!
Eric Foner
The Story of American Freedom
Gregory Fossedal
The Democratic Imperative: Exporting the American Revolution
Glenn Frankel
Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New Israel
George Friedman
The Coming War with Japan
Thomas Friedman
From Beirut to Jerusalem
David Fromkin
In The Time of Americans
Francis Fukuyama
The End of History and the Last Man
John Lewis Gaddis
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
Martin Goldsmith
The Inextinguishable Symphony
Mikhail Gorbachev
Memoirs
John Steele Gordon
The Business of America
Sarah Gordon
Passage to Union
Annette Gordon-Reed
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
Philip Gourevitch
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
F. Carolyn Graglia
Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism
Winston Groom
A Storm in Flanders
Alma Guillermoprieto
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
Joy Hakim
Freedom: A History of US
David Halberstam
The Fifties
David Halevy
Inside the PLO
Charles Hamilton
Adam Clayton Powell Jr: A Political Dilemma
Blaine Harden
Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent
Jeffrey Hart
Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe
Peter Hennessy
Whitehall
Joseph Hernon
Profiles in Character
Peter Hitchens
The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana
Peter Charles Hoffer
Past Imperfect
Paul Hollander
Anti-Americanism
Harold Holzer
The Lincoln Douglas Debates
Michael Howard
The First World War
Harry Jaffe
Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
Peter Jennings
The Century
Haynes Johnson
Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years
Paul Johnson
A History of the American People
Jill Jonnes
Empires of Light
Robert Kagan
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order
Stanley Karnow
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
Michael Kaufman
Mad Dreams, Saving Graces Poland
Michael Kelly
Martyr's Day: Chronicle of a Small War
Frederick Kempe
Divorcing the Dictator
Thomas Keneally
The Great Shame, Part 1
Thomas Keneally
The Great Shame, Part 2
Caroline Kennedy
In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action
David Kennedy
Freedom from Fear
Paul Kennedy
Preparing for the 21st Century
Roger Kennedy
Orders From France
Stephen Kinzer
Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
Marvin Kitman
The Making of the President 1789
Michael Klare
Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws
Gina Kolata
Flu: The Great Influenza Pandemic
Lloyd Kramer
Lafayette in Two Worlds
Peter Krass
Carnegie
Nicholas Kristof
China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
Jon Kukla
A Wilderness So Immense
Robert Kuttner
The End of Laissez-Faire
Nguyen Cao Ky
Buddha’s Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam
Lewis Lapham
The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bay
Walter Laqueur
The Long Road to Freedom: Russia & Glasnost
John Laurence
The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story
Dorie McCullough Lawson
Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children
Nicholas Lemann
The Promised Land
Stephan Lesher
George Wallace: American Populist
Phyllis Lee Levin
Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House
Anthony Lewis
Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
Bernard Lewis
What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
John Lewis
Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
James Loewen
Lies My Teacher Told Me
John Lukacs
The Hitler of History
Pauline Maier
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
Michael Mandelbaum
The Ideas That Conquered the World
Jim Mann
Beijing Jeep: American Business in China
Harvey Mansfield
Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Jon Margolis
The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964
Fred Maroon
The Nixon Years, 1969-1974, White House to Watergate
John Marszalek
The Petticoat Affair
Martin Marty
Martin Luther
Robert Massie
Dreadnought
Jack Matlock, Jr.
Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
Martin Mayer
The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery
Forrest McDonald
The American Presidency: An Intellectual History
Walter McDougall
Promised Land, Crusader State
Porter McKeever
Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy
Diane McWhorter
Carry Me Home
Jon Meacham
Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Charles Mee
Playing God
Allan Metcalf
America In So Many Words
Judith Miller
One, By One, By One: Facing the Holocaust
Irvin Molotsky
The Flag, The Poet and The Song
Edmund Morris
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
John Morris
Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism
Roger Mudd
Great Minds of History
Melissa Muller
Anne Frank: The Biography
Andrew Nagorski
The Birth of Freedom
John Niven
Salmon P. Chase: A Biography
Richard Nixon
Seize the Moment, Part 1
Peggy Noonan
What I Saw at the Revolution
Conor Cruise O'Brien
The Long Affair
Stephen Oates
The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861
Don Oberdorfer
The Turn: From the Cold War to a New Era
Bruce Oudes
From: The President
Nell Irvin Painter
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
Pavel Palazchenko
My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze
Michael Parenti
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome
Mark Pendergrast
Uncommon Grounds
James Perry
A Bohemian Brigade
Nathaniel Philbrick
Sea of Glory
Matthew Pinsker
Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home
Richard Pipes
Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger
Richard Posner
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline
Colin Powell
My American Journey
Diana Preston
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
Jack Rakove
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Eleanor Randolph
Waking the Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New Russia
Eric Rauchway
Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America
William Rehnquist
Grand Inquests
Robert Remini
Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union
David Remnick
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Andrew Roberts
Napoleon & Wellington
Arnold Rogow
A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Tina Rosenberg
Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America
Gretchen Rubin
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
Alan Ryan
Introduction Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Morley Safer
Flashbacks On Returning to Vietnam
Edward Said
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
Kirkpatrick Sale
The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream
Pierre Salinger
P.S., A Memoir
Harrison Salisbury
Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June
Michael Sandel
Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy
David Savage
Turning Right
Simon Schama
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Bob Schieffer
The Acting President
Alan Schom
Napoleon Bonaparte
Reese Schonfeld
Me and Ted Against the World
Daniel Schorr
Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism
Stephen Schwartz
The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa’ud from Tradition to Terror
Robert Scigliano
The Federalist Papers
Elaine Sciolino
The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis
Michael Shapiro
In the Shadow of the Sun: A Korean Year of Love & Sorrow
Deborah Shapley
Promise and Power
Gen. Ariel Sharon
Warrior: An Autobiography
Neil Sheehan
A Bright Shining Lie (Part 5)
Neil Sheehan
A Bright Shining Lie (Part 4)
Neil Sheehan
A Bright Shining Lie (Part 1)
Neil Sheehan
A Bright Shining Lie (Part 2)
Neil Sheehan
A Bright Shining Lie (Part 3)
Judy Shelton
The Coming Soviet Crash
Richard Shenkman
Presidential Ambition
Lynn Sherr
Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
Robert Shogan
The Riddle of Power
George Shultz
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State
Gary Sick
October Surprise
Hampton Sides
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
Sen. Paul Simon
Advice and Consent
Charles Slack
Noble Obsession
Robert Slayton
Empire Statesman: The Rise & Redemption of Al Smith
Richard Norton Smith
Patriarch
Allister Sparks
The Mind of South Africa
Edward Steers Jr.
Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
James Stewart
Den of Thieves
William Strauss
Generations: The History of America's Future
Tad Szulc
Then and Now: How the World Has Changed Since WW 2
Sam Tanenhaus
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography Part 1
Sam Tanenhaus
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography Part 2
William Taubman
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Part 1)
William Taubman
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Part 2)
Lester Thurow
Head to Head
John Toland
Captured By History
Shen Tong
Almost a Revolution
Patrick Tyler
A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China, An Investigative History
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
The Conservative Crack-Up
Loung Ung
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Sanford Ungar
Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants
David Von Drehle
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
Donald Warren
Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio
Ben Wattenberg
The First Universal Nation
Allen Weinstein
The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America The Stalin Era
Stanley Weintraub
Disraeli: A Biography
Thomas West
Vindicating the Founders
Francis Wheen
Karl Marx: A Life
Roger Wilkins
Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism
Frank Williams
Judging Lincoln
Brenda Wineapple
Hawthorne: A Life
Jay Winik
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Gordon Wood
The American Revolution: A History
Christopher Wren
The End of the Line
Robin Wright
In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade
Tinsley Yarbrough
John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter of the Warren Court
Ted Yeatman
Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend
Daniel Yergin
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Alfred Young
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory & the American Revolution
Warren Zimmermann
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
Howard Zinn
A People's History of the United States