U.S. History

The Ghosts of Langley
Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness

John Prados

Shortfall
Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking

Alice Echols

The Hamlet Fire
A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives

Bryant Simon

Reclaiming Gotham
Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America’s Tale of Two Cities

Juan González

Right Out of California
The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism

Kathryn S. Olmsted

Black Power 50

Sylviane A. Diouf, Komozi Woodard

A People’s History of the American Revolution
How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

Ray Raphael

Down for the Count
Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America

Andrew Gumbel

The War on Leakers
National Security and American Democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden

Lloyd C. Gardner

Hold Tight Gently
Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS

Martin Duberman

A People’s Art History of the United States
250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements

Nicolas Lampert

The Spirit of 74
How the American Revolution Began

Ray Raphael, Marie Raphael

Constitutional Myths
What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right

Ray Raphael

Democracy in the Dark
The Seduction of Government Secrecy

Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.

Sherman’s Ghosts
Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War

Matthew Carr

Madison’s Music
On Reading the First Amendment

Burt Neuborne

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