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Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M.M. Blume THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the U.S. government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information… Read more about this item

The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath by Garrett Peck The Great War's bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and suppressed in American memory. This timely book is a reexamination of America's first global experience as we commemorate World War I's centennial. The U.S. had steered clear of the European conflagration known as the Great War… Read more about this item

The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union From Ruin by Douglas Smith After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, cooperation between the United States and Russia is difficult to imagine -- and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but… Read more about this item

Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765 - 1776 by Patrick Spero THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. In 1763, the Seven Years' War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing that the British Empire would expand onto their… Read more about this item

A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830 - 1910 by Steven Hahn In this ambitious story of American imperial expansion and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional histories of the nineteenth century and offers a perspective that will be as enduring as it is controversial. In the… Read more about this item

April 1945: The Hinge of History by Craig Shirley The New York Times bestseller December 1941 depicted the startling events that caused the United States to enter the Second World War. Four years later, the country transformed into a true global superpower. In April 1945, historian Craig Shirley delivers his bookend account of the war, rich with on-the-ground insights into the… Read more about this item

Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba by Vicki Huddleston Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird's-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. After the US embassy in Havana was… Read more about this item

Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience by Martyn Whittock Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship. Collectively, these people would become known to history as "the Pilgrims." The story of… Read more about this item

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century by Clay Risen THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. The Crowded Hour is the dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose daring exploits marked the beginning… Read more about this item

The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the U.S. Army uses lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right anti-government patriots. Inside an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun takes aim at the American president stepping in for an… Read more about this item

The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage by John Harris Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave-trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave… Read more about this item

Wilderness At Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent by Ted Morgan From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of FDR, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham, Wilderness At Dawn is the sprawling, roughhouse epic of the unsung heroes, heroines, and rogues who tamed the rugged continent that became our country. Here is a masterpiece of history, research, and storytelling, the panoramic epic… Read more about this item

Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement by Jessie Morgan-Owens THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Famous abolitionists Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry David Thoreau, and John… Read more about this item

War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion by Jeff Guinn The war began in 1916 with Mexican rebel Pancho Villa's bloody raid on a U.S. border town, the latest incident in simmering tensions between the two countries. In response, the U.S. launched what it called the Punitive Expedition -- a military invasion of Mexican territory.… Read more about this item

The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot that Brought Nixon Down by Geoff Shepard "The system worked" -- Carl Bernstein's famous assessment of Watergate -- turns out to be completely wrong. Powerful new evidence reveals that in the prosecution of the most consequential scandal in American history, virtually nothing in the justice system worked as it should. The roles of… Read more about this item

Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia by Thomas Healy THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES. In 1969, with America's cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil rights leader Floyd McKissick announced an audacious plan: he would build a new city in rural North Carolina, open to all but intended primarily… Read more about this item

The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America by Lawrence T. Brown The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, shut down highways and marched on city streets. In The Black Butterfly -- a reference to the fact that Baltimore's majority-Black population… Read more about this item

Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party by Jon Ward The Carter presidency was on life support. The Democrats, desperate to keep power and yearning to resurrect former glory, turned to Kennedy. And so, 1980 became a civil war. It was the last time an American president received a serious reelection challenge from inside his… Read more about this item

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond… Read more about this item

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970,… Read more about this item