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American History

1. The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817

   Myron Magnet

   Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success.More

2. Trees in Paradise: A California History

   Jared Farmer

   Readers of John McPhee will enjoy this brilliant landscape history of California from the Gold Rush to the present.More

3. The Hunted Whale

   James P. McGuane

   The lethal industry that lit the world, explained and illustrated by precise photographs of its weapons and equipment.More

4. Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

   Vincent Bugliosi

   For fifty years the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. This book releases us from a crippling distortion of American history.More

5. The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

   Alan Taylor

   This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war.More

6. Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC

   Kenneth J. Winkle

   The stirring history of a president and a capital city on the front lines of war and freedom.More

7. For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England

   Allegra di Bonaventura

   “A work of astonishing ingenuity, intellectual and emotional depth, and (most of all) brilliant writing.”—John Demos, author of The Unredeemed CaptiveMore

8. The Norton Mix: American History

   Karen Dunn-Haley, Stephen K. Davis, Matthew Schoenbachler, Et Al.

   Norton History, your way.More

9. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

   Ira Katznelson

   “Fear Itself deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions.”—David Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from FearMore

10. For the Record: A Documentary History of America: From First Contact through Reconstruction

    David E. Shi, Holly A. Mayer

    Fifth Edition / Volume(s): 1

    The most accessible collection of primary sources available.More

11. For the Record: A Documentary History of America: From Reconstruction through Contemporary Times

    David E. Shi, Holly A. Mayer

    Fifth Edition / Volume(s): 2

    The most accessible collection of primary sources available.More

12. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865

    James Oakes

    A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery.More

13. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942

    Ian W. Toll

    “Both a serious work of history . . . and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative.”—San Francisco ChronicleMore

14. America: A Narrative History

    George Brown Tindall, David E. Shi

    Brief Ninth Edition / Volume(s): One-Volume

    A book students love, in a more concise format.More

15. America: A Narrative History

    George Brown Tindall, David E. Shi

    Ninth Edition / Volume(s): One-Volume

    A book students love, now more streamlined and accessible.More