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Year
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Book
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2004
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
by Steven Hahn
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2003
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
by Rick Atkinson
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2002
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Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand
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2001
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J. Ellis
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2000
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
by David M. Kennedy
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1999
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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
by Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
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1998
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
by Edward J. Larson
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1997
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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
by Jack N. Rakove
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1996
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William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
by Alan Taylor, Peter Dimock (Editor)
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1995
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt The Homefront in World War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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1993
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
by Gordon S. Wood
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1992
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The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
by Mark E. Neely
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1991
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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1990
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In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
by Stanley Karnow
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1989
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
by Taylor Branch
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1989
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
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1988
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The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876
by Robert V. Bruce
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1987
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Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
by Bernard Bailyn
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1986
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
by Walter A. McDougall
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1985
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Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis and Alfred E. Kahn
by Thomas McCraw
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1983
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The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
by Rhys L. Isaac
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1982
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
by C.V. Woodward (Editor)
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1981
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American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
by Lawrence Arthur Cremin
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1980
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
by Leon F. Litwack
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