The American WestDee Brown★★★★★4.5(271)Michael Kammen Pulitzer Prize Winner, New York Newsday A galloping, anecdotal narrative of the trans-Mississippi West...
Don't Know Much About the Civil WarKenneth C. Davis★★★★★4.5(266)By the vastly amusing author of Don't Know Much About History and Don't Know Much About Geography, this fresh look at...
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its SoulClara Bingham★★★★★4.5(236)“In her excellent oral history of the tumultuous events of 1969 and 1970, . . . [Clara Bingham] does a fine job...
Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Dover Books on Americana)Elinore Pruitt Stewart★★★★★4.5(225)Review Warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative. ― The Wall Street Journal
U.S. History For DummiesSteve Wiegand★★★★★4.5(215)From the Back Cover Learn: To appreciate the people, events, and places that shaped our nation To appreciate the...
Robert E. Lee: A BiographyEmory M. Thomas★★★★★4.5(215)From Publishers Weekly Thomas, a distinguished historian of the Civil War (The Confederacy as a Revolutionary...
Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.Marion Barry★★★★★4.5(210)About the Author Marion Barry, Jr., a four-term mayor of Washington, D.C., has dedicated forty years of his life to...
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party BrideDaniel James Brown★★★★★4.4(6.2K)From Booklist The story of the ill-fated Donner party, a group of nineteenth-century settlers en route to California...
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlTimothy Egan★★★★★4.4(5.7K)A vivid and gritty piece of forgotten history." ---USA Today Timothy Egan is a national enterprise reporter for the New...
Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled AmericaSam Giancana★★★★★4.4(2.5K)Review “ Amazing and shocking disclosures. ” ( New York Daily News )“ Now the young Sam Giancana tells all . . ....
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West (Frontier Lawmen)Tom Clavin★★★★★4.4(2.5K)Absorbing. . . . Fun and revealing all the way through. . . . Mr. Clavin gives Earp his due, but one of the virtues of...
Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Women of the West)Elinore Pruitt Stewart★★★★★4.4(2.5K)From Publishers Weekly George provides biographical insight into the author of the 1914 pioneer classic Letters of a...
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of HollywoodSam Wasson★★★★★4.4(1.5K)A New York Times bestseller "The wondrous thing about Sam Wasson’s new book is that it feels both necessary and...
Black Dahlia Avenger: The True StorySteve Hodel★★★★★4.4(1.4K)...Steve Hodel has come to put the Black Dahlia painfully to rest. Hodel's investigation is thoroughly and completely...
Mosby's Memoirs (Southern Classics Series)John Singleton Mosby★★★★★4.4(1.1K)Colonel John S. Mosby was one of the Confederacy's most effective and colorful cavalry leaders. Operating in Northern...
Janesville: An American StoryAmy Goldstein★★★★★4.4(1K)“The most illuminating business book of the year.... If you really want to understand what’s going on in today’s...
Toms River: A Story of Science and SalvationDan Fagin★★★★★4.4(979)Deftly combines investigative reporting and historical research to probe a New Jersey seashore town's cluster of...
Point ManKevin Dockery★★★★★4.4(959)About the Author Kevin Dockery is the military historian and field curator for the UDT/SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce,...
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit NumbersBridgett M. Davis★★★★★4.4(673)New York Times Editor's Choice Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year Parade Best Book of 2019 Kirkus Best Memoirs of the Year...
Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil WarSteve Inskeep★★★★★4.4(633)“In the hands of National Public Radio journalist Steve Inskeep, the Frémonts become a vehicle to explore media, the...
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age AmericaCraig Childs★★★★★4.4(585)“It’s a clever, smartly written and altogether enthusiastic effort to breathe feeling and life into the human...
Where I Was FromJoan Didion★★★★★4.4(526)“Compelling. . . . A love song to the place where her family has lived for generations, but a love song full of...
Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of FootballRich Cohen★★★★★4.4(525)“Every year brings a Super Bowl, World Series, NBA, and Stanley Cup champion. All are duly noted and celebrated. But...
Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten HistoryAndrew Carroll★★★★★4.4(504)Readers should fasten their seatbelts ...Carroll's explorations are strangely compelling—I started wondering what...