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Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth

Mark David Hall

Mark David Hall is the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors...

Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War

Richard M. Ketchum

“This is superbly researched, full-scale narrative history at its best.” ― David McCullough “More than a...

Vimy

Pierre Berton

From the Inside Flap ster dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in...

Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia

Buddy Valastro

From Publishers Weekly Best known on TLC cable as the Cake Boss, Valastro shares recipes and a sometimes treacly tale...

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (Series on Latin American Studies)

Stephen Kinzer

“Schlesinger and Kinzer have done the greatest service to truth and justice by presenting the untold story of the CIA...

American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857

Sally Denton

From Publishers Weekly Like September 11, 2001, another September 11, in 1857, reverberates in American history as a...

The Hunt for History: On the Trail of the World's Lost Treasures—from the Letters of Lincoln, Churchill, and Einstein to the Secret Recordings Onboard JFK's Air Force One

Nathan Raab

“Raab's enthusiasm for the chase [is] palpable in this diverting account of treasure hunting in the fast lane—a...

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup (1808–c.1864-75) was a free-born African American from Saratoga Springs, New York, who was kidnapped...

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

Joseph J. Ellis

The Wall Street Journal “The dissenters—George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison—faced...

The Monk of Mokha

Dave Eggers

“Exquisitely interesting… This is about the human capacity to dream—here, there, everywhere.” —Gabriel...

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

Annie Jacobsen

Cauldron-stirring. [AREA 51] is not science fiction. It is an assertive account, revelatory ... Ms. Jacobsen has put...

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Tony Horwitz

The freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time. This splendid commemoration of the war...

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier

Scott Zesch

From Booklist On New Year's Day, 1870, Adolph Korn, the author's ancestor and son of German immigrants, was captured by...

The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism

John U. Bacon

“The Great Halifax Explosion is absorbing from first page to last. With deep research and evocative writing, John U....

The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

Bruce C. Levine

“This is the Civil War as it is seldom seen . . . and a portrait of a country in transition . . . as vivid as any...

The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today

Thomas E. Ricks

From Booklist When George Marshall headed the U.S. Army in WWII, generals were frequently fired. They haven’t much...

George Washington: The Crossing

Mark R. Levin

About the Author Jack E. Levin (1925–2018) was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Malice Toward None ;...

Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?

Ethan Brown

Ethan Brown's daring and dangerous exposé uncovers a murky inferno of violence and corruption in south Louisiana,...

Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West

Ethan Rarick

His is the first significant book, written, like Stewart's, in a novelistic mode and likely to gain popular readership,...

Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D’Arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia

Tom Robbins

From Booklist On September 21, 1991, Al D’Arco, acting head of the Luchese crime family, placed a phone call to an...

Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code Of Silence And The Biggest Marijuana Bust In American History

James Higdon

“[A] lucidly spun tale…. Think Tarantino on Kentucky bluegrass, scored with Creedence and vigorously reported.”...

River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage through the Amazon

Buddy Levy

Praise for Buddy Levy and River of Darkness “In River of Darkness , Buddy Levy recounts Orellana's headlong dash down...

When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, 2)

Mark Olshaker

A chilling true crime story that feels all too relevant in today's climate, despite the fact that it covers a case from...

Apache Dawn: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

Damien Lewis

“Veteran war correspondent Lewis ( Bloody Heroes ) chronicles the dramatic story of two Apache attack helicopters in...