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When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
Heather Hendershot
London Review of Books -- June 1, 2023
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
Margaret A. Burnham
New York Review of Books -- April 6, 2023
Half American: the Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War Two at Home and Abroad
Matthew F. Delmont
An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
Beth Bailey
London Review of Books -- March 2, 2023
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Adam Hochschild
The Nation -- February 20/27, 2023
C. Vann Woodward: America's Historian
James Cobb
London Review of Books -- October 20, 2022
Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ideal and the Forging of Our National Identity
Donald Yacovone
New York Review of Books -- September 22, 2022
What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
Michael Kazin
London Review of Books -- May 12, 2022
Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
Woody Holton
The Nation -- April 18/25, 2022
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
Roger Lowenstein
New York Times -- March 20, 2022
Freedom to Disciminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America
Gene Slater
Los Angeles Review of Books -- September 26, 2021
The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice
Scott Ellsworth
London Review of Books -- September 9, 2021
The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
Jon Grinspan
The Nation -- June 14/21, 2021
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
David S. Reynolds
The Zealot and the Emancipator: Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and the Struggle for American Freedom
H. W. Brands
London Review of Books --December 17, 2020
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Times Literary Supplement -- December 4, 2020
His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
Jon Meacham
New York Times -- September 27, 2020
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Brenda Wineapple
London Review of Books -- September 24, 2020
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century
Fredrik Logevall
Times Literary Supplement -- September 11, 2020
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Alexander Keyssar
Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
Jesse Wegman
London Review of Books --May 21, 2020
When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War
LeeAnna Keith
The Nation -- May 18-25, 2020
"The Only Avoidable Subject of Regret": George Washington, Slavery and the Enslaved Community at Mount Verson
Mary Thompson
London Review of Books -- December 19, 2019
Equality: An American Dilemma 1866-1896
Charles Postel
The Nation -- October 7, 2019
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
Steve Luxenberg
Washington Post -- February 10, 2019
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Joanne B. Freeman
London Review of Books -- November 22, 2018
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David Blight
The Nation -- November 19-26, 2018
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
Anne C. Bailey.
London Review of Books -- March 22, 2018
Grant
Ron Chernow
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age 1865-1896
Richard White
Times Literary Supplement -- January 26, 2018
Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical
Jacqueline Jones
New York Review of Books -- December 21, 2017
The Burr Conspiracy
James E. Lewis, Jr.
London Review of Books -- December 14, 2017
A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland
Sidney Nathans
London Review of Books -- June 29, 2017
Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War
Fred Kaplan
New York Times Book Review -- June 26, 2017
Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age
Noam Maggor
The Nation -- June 19, 2017
The Book that Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
Randall Fuller
New York Times Book Review -- January 22, 2017
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor
London Review of Books -- October 6, 2016
Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Nicholas Guyatt
New York Times Book Review -- May 1, 2016
Give Us the Ballot
Ari Berman
The Nation -- December 21/28, 2015
The Half Has Never Been Told
Edward Baptist
New York Times Book Review -- October 5, 2014
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
Michael Korda
Washington Post -- May 30, 2014
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis
The Nation -- February 17, 2014
The Wars of Reconstruction
Douglas R. Egerton
New York Times Book Review -- February 2, 2014
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
H. W. Brands
Washington Post -- November 2, 2012
More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
Stephen Kantrowitz
The Nation -- July 30-August 6, 2012
Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians
Robert W. Merry
Washington Post -- July 13, 2012
The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
Robin Blackburn
The Nation -- August 29, 2011
The Union War
Gary W. Gallagher
New York Times Book Review -- May 1, 2011
The History of White People
Nell Irvin Painter
Harper's -- September, 2010
The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies
Victoria Bynum
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Stephanie McCurry
The Nation -- August 4, 2010
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
Philip Dray
The Nation -- November 3, 2008
The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed
New York Times Book Review -- October 5, 2008
The Slave Ship: A Human History
Marcus Rediker
The London Review of Books -- July 31, 2008
The Day Freedom Died
Charles Lane
The Colfax Massacre
LeeAnna Keith
Washington Post Book World -- March 23, 2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Faust
The Nation -- January 28, 2008
The Road to Reunion. Volume Two. Secessionists Triumphant: 1854-1861
William W. Freehling
The New York Times Book Review -- April 8, 2007
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery
James Oakes
The Nation -- February 5, 2007
The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty
Lawrence Otis Graham
Washington Post Book World -- July 2, 2006
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Raymond Arsenault
The New York Times Book Review -- March 19, 2006
How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier
Stuart Banner
The London Review of Books -- February 9, 2006
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Sean Wilentz
The Nation -- October 31, 2005
John
Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War,
and Seeded Civil Rights
David S. Reynolds
The Los Angeles Times Book Review -- May 1, 2005
The
Presidential Recordings: Lyndon Johnson
Ed. Max Holland et al.
The New York Times Book Review -- May 8, 2005
The
Dominion of War: Empire and Conflict in North America 1500-2000
Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton
The London Review of Books -- May 19, 2005
In
Perilous Times
Geoffrey
R. Stone
The Nation -- December 6, 2004
Israel
on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom From the 1790s
Through the Civil War
Melvin Patrick
Ely
The Los Angeles Times Book Review -- September 12, 2004
Freedom
Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828
Walter A. McDougall
The Los Angeles Times Book Review -- May 23, 2004
Centennial
Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876
William H. Rehnquist
The Nation -- March 29, 2004
Lincoln
and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington Daniel Mark Epstein Washington Post Book World
-- February 15, 2004
Lincoln
/ Lincoln's Constitution
Richard Carwardine / Daniel
Farber
The London Review of Books -- October 23, 2003
Reporting
Civil Rights
Ed., Clayborne Carson, David
J. Garrow, Bill Kovach, and Carol Polsgrove
Los Angeles Times Book Review -- March 9, 2003
Jesse
James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
T.J. Stiles
Los Angeles Times Book Review -- September 22, 2002
The
Strange Death of American Liberalism
H.W. Brands
The London Review of Books -- June 27, 2002
Lincoln's
Virtues: An Ethical Biography
William Lee Miller
The New York Times Book Review -- February 10, 2002
Founding
Brothers
Joseph Ellis
Los Angeles Times Book Review -- April 29, 2001
Race
and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
David W. Blight
The New York Times Book Review -- March 4, 2001
Forced
Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Los Angeles Times Book Review -- April 9, 2000
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