1776
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Author: David Pietrusza
Publisher: Basic Books (Pbk.)
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A Little History of the World
Author: E.H. Gombrich
Publisher: Yale University Press (Pbk.)
A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness – and a Trove of Letters – Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
Author: Ted Gup
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and other Adventurers in Early America
Author: Tony Horwitz
Publisher: Picador, Henry Holt and Co.
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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory
Author: Michael Korda
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Author: Jay Winik
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and The Books They Wrote
Author: Craig Fehrman
Publisher: Avid Reader Press, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, LLC (Pbk.)
Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler
Author: Mark Riebling
Publisher: Basic Books
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
Author: Michael Capuzzo
Publisher: Broadway Books (Pbk.)
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Author: Tony Horwitz
Publisher: Vintage Departures, Vintage Books, Division of Random House, Inc.
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Crown Publishers
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Deep, Dark, Down: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle that Set them Free
Author: Hector Tobar
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Dinner in Camelot: The Night America’s Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House
Author: Joseph A. Esposito
Publisher: ForeEdge, an Imprint of University Press of New England
Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the “Forgotten Man”
Author: Robert S. McElvaine (ed.)
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Author: Joseph Ellis
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of its Survivors
Author: Doug Stanton
Publisher: MJF Books
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
Author: Rachel Slade
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (Pbk.)
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Villard (Pbk.)
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc.
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom-and Revenge
Author: Edward Kritzler
Publisher: Anchor Books, A Division of Random House, Inc.
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John Adams
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Author: Dava Sobel
Publisher: Walker & Company
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Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories that History Forgot
Author: Martin W. Sandler
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (Pbk.)
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Author: Julian Sancton
Publisher: Crown Trade Paperback Edition, Crown, an Imprint of Random House
My War: A Love Story in Letters and Drawings
Author: Tracy Sugarman
Publisher: Random House
Napoleon’s buttons: 17 Molecules that Changed History
Author: Penny Le Couteur & Jay Burreson
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
Author: Witold Rybczynski
Publisher: Scribner
Presidential Doodles: Two Centuries of Scribbles, Scratches, Squiggles, and Scrawls from the Oval Office
Author: Sasha Archibald
Publisher: Basic Books
Salt: A World History
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Penguin Books (Pbk.)
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Publisher: Random House
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
Author: Bruce Henderson
Publisher: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (Pbk.)
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
Author: Winston Groom
Publisher: National Geographic
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians
Author: David M. Rubenstein; Foreword by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
The Americans: The Colonial Experience
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday (Pbk.)
The Americans: The Democratic Experience
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher: Random House
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Author: Daniel James Brown
Publisher: Penguin Books
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Pbk.)
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest To Build the World’s Greatest Library
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher: Vintage (Pbk.)
The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher: Vintage (Pbk.)
The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue
Author: Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Author: Amity Shlaes
Publisher: HarperCollins
the Immortals: The World War II Story of Five Fearless Heroes, the Sinking of the Dorchester, and an Awe-Inspiring Rescue
Author: Steven T. Collis
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family’s Quest to Bring Him Home
Author: Sally Mott Freeman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
Author: Robert Whitaker
Publisher: Basic Books
The Mindset Lists of American History: From Typewriters to Text Messages, What Ten Generations of Americans Think is Normal
Author: Tom McBride and Ron Nief
Publisher: Wiley
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
Author: Henry Petroski
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (Pbk.)
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Author: Sebastian Junger
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Author: Simon Winchester
Publisher: HarperCollins
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The Railway Man: A True Story of War, Remembrance, and Forgiveness
Author: Eric Lomax
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (Pbk.)
The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest to Understand His World
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher: Random House
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Crown, an Imprint of Random House, a Division of Penguin Random House, LLC
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The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
Author: Peter Maas
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher: Random House
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The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History
Author: Jenny Volvolvski, Julia Rothman, Matt Lamothe, and Kurt Andersen
Publisher: Chronicle Books
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Author: Timothy Egan
Publisher: A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Company (Pbk.)
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These Truths: a History of the United States
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Thunderstruck
Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Crown Publishing
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Publisher: Random House
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Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
Author: Wil S. Hylton
Publisher: Riverhead Books (Pbk.)
When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win WWII
Author: Molly Guptil Manning
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
Author: Alexis Coe
Publisher: Penguin Books (Pbk.)
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Zarafa: A Giraffe’s True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris
Author: Michael Allin
Publisher: A Delta Book (Pbk.)