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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Rebecca Nagle - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century...
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Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic

Lindsay M. Chervinsky - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic.. The United States of 1797 faced enormous challenges, provoked by enemies...
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America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

H. W. Brands - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis,...
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Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II

Abbott Kahler - Crown
Format: Hardcover

An incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galápagos - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park. At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists...
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A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II

Shannon Monaghan - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of four special operations officers who fought together behind enemy lines across multiple theaters of World War II, and then continued to serve, officially and unofficially, for decades after in the hottest parts of the Cold War. There have always been special warriors;...
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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

Sharon McMahon - Thesis
Format: Hardcover

From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't...
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find...
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The Northwomen: Untold Stories From the Other Half of the Viking World

Heather Pringle - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

For fans of provocative history and "Game of Thrones" alike, this revisionist narrative reveals how the little-known women of the Viking era shaped their world.. Until Scandinavia converted to Christianity and came under the rule of powerful kings, the Vikings were a dominant...
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Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

Jack Carr - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.. 1983:...
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Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

Jason Stanley - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

"I've never read a book that is as timely, urgent and essential as this one. A battle plan for keeping this nation from falling into fascism." - Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation...
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