| United States History |
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Difficulty |
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs - the Election That Changed the Country
by James Chace |
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Average |
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
by Ronald Takaki |
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Average |
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow |
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Average |
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham |
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Average |
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
by Jay Winick |
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Average |
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James McPherson |
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Average |
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
by Mike Royko |
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Average |
Chester Alan Arthur
by Zachary Karabell |
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Average |
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville |
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Challenging |
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
by Jon Meacham |
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Average |
Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882
by Roger Daniels |
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Average |
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
by Studs Terkel |
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Average |
Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
by David O. Stewart |
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Average |
In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal
by Richard M. Nixon |
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Average |
John Adams
by David McCullough |
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Average |
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Average |
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
by Iris Chang |
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Average |
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by John M. Barry |
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Average |
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
by Gordon Wood |
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Average |
The Roots of Democracy: American Thought and Culture, 1760-1800
by Robert Shalhope |
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Average |
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
by Laton McCartney |
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Average |
The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt
by John Milton Cooper, Jr. |
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Average |
Thomas Jefferson
by R.B. Bernstein |
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Average |
War is a Racket
by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler |
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Average |
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
by Daniel Walker Howe |
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Average |
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| North American History |
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Difficulty |
Conquistador: Hernan Cortez, King Montezuma and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
by Buddy Levy |
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Average |
Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940
by Mary A. Renda |
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Average |
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| European History |
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Rating |
Difficulty |
A History of Russia
by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky |
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Average |
A History of the English Speaking Peoples (4 volumes)
by Winston Spencer Churchill |
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Challenging |
A History of the Vikings
by Gwyn Jones |
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Average |
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
by Eric Metaxas |
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Average |
Britain and the Spanish Civil War
by Tom Buchanan |
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Average |
Catherine the Great: Life and Legend
by John T. Alexander |
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Average |
Hope and Glory: Britain, 1900-1990
by Peter Clarke |
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Average |
Let Us Be Finns: Essays on History
by Matti Klinge |
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Average |
Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland
by Tim Pat Coogan |
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Average |
Neutrality: The Finnish Position
by Dr. Urho Kekkonen |
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Average |
Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War and the Origins of Soviet-American Rivalry
by Andre Gerolymatos |
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Average |
Summer Meditations
by Vaclav Havel |
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Average |
The 12-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
by Richard Grunberger |
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Average |
The First World War
by John Keegan |
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Average |
The IRA
by Tim Pat Coogan |
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Average |
The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939
by Martin Pugh |
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Average |
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
by Lynne Olson |
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Average |
We Die Alone: A WW II Epic of Escape and Endurance
by David Armine Howarth |
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Average |
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| Middle Eastern History |
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Rating |
Difficulty |
A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time
by Howard Morley Sachar |
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Average |
A History of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani |
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Average |
Revolt in the Desert
by T.E. Lawrence |
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Average |
The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation
by Sandra Mackey |
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Average |
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire
by Lord Kinross |
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Average |
The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged
by Flavius Josephus |
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Challenging |
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| South Asian History |
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Rating |
Difficulty |
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by Mohandas K. Gandhi |
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Challenging |
India: A Concise History
by Francis Watson |
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Average |
The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India and Pakistan
by Robert J. McMahon |
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Average |
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| Southeast Asian History |
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Rating |
Difficulty |
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
by Stanley Karnow |
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Average |
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| East Asian History |
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Rating |
Difficulty |
Across the Pacific: An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations
by Akira Iriye |
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Average |
China Market: America's Quest for Informal Empire, 1893-1901
by Thomas J. McCormick |
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Average |
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford |
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert P. Bix |
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Average |
Japan: A Concise History
by Milton W. Meyer |
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Average |
Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times
by Morris Rossabi |
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Average |
The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900
by Diana Preston |
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Average |
The Secret History of the Mongols
by Francis Woodman Cleaves, translator |
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Challenging |
The United States and China
by John King Fairbank |
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Average |
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| Oceania History |
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Difficulty |
The United States and the Pacific: History of a Frontier (Les Etats-Unis et le Pacifique: Histoire d'une frontière)
by Jean Heffer |
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Average |
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