American History Sale — New American History Paperbacks

A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg

Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater

A. Wilson Greene, Gary W. Gallagher

Stretching the Heavens

The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism

Terryl L. Givens

Remaking the American Patient

How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers

Nancy Tomes

The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys

North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics

Rob Christensen

To Address You as My Friend

African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln

Jonathan W. White, Edna Greene Medford

Choctaw Confederates

The American Civil War in Indian Country

Fay A. Yarbrough

Citizen Spectator

Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America

Wendy Bellion

Dismal Freedom

A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp

J. Brent Morris

Cold Harbor to the Crater

The End of the Overland Campaign

Gary W. Gallagher, Caroline E. Janney

France and the American Civil War

A Diplomatic History

Stève Sainlaude, Jessica Edwards, Don H. Doyle

Latin America and the Global Cold War

Thomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp, Vanni Pettinà

Men Is Cheap

Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America

Brian P. Luskey

Warring for America

Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812

Nicole Eustace, Fredrika J. Teute

Radical Sacrifice

The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter

William Marvel

Between Two Worlds

Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust

Robin Judd

Living the Dream

The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Daniel T. Fleming

Arise Africa, Roar China

Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

Yunxiang Gao

Arguing until Doomsday

Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy

Michael E. Woods

Writing Kit Carson

Fallen Heroes in a Changing West

Susan Lee Johnson

The Birth Certificate

An American History

Susan J. Pearson

Co-conspirator for Justice

The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman

Susan M. Reverby

Inventing Disaster

The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood

Cynthia A. Kierner

The Punitive Turn in American Life

How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War

Michael S. Sherry

Beatriz Allende

A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America

Tanya Harmer

Divided by Terror

American Patriotism after 9/11

John Bodnar

Step It Up and Go

The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk

David Menconi

Ends of War

The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox

Caroline E. Janney

Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain

Migration and the Making of the United States

Samantha Seeley

The Three Graces of Val-Kill

Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own

Emily Herring Wilson

The Women's Fight

The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

Thavolia Glymph

The Occupation of Havana

War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World

Elena A. Schneider

American Lucifers

The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865

Jeremy Zallen

A Contest of Civilizations

Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era

Andrew F. Lang

Freedom Roots

Histories from the Caribbean

Laurent Dubois, Richard Lee Turits

Raising the White Flag

How Surrender Defined the American Civil War

David Silkenat

The First Reconstruction

Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War

Van Gosse

The Young Lords

A Radical History

Johanna Fernández

We Are Not Slaves

State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America

Robert T. Chase

Game of Privilege

An African American History of Golf

Lane Demas

Searching for Black Confederates

The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth

Kevin M. Levin

From Asylum to Prison

Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945

Anne E. Parsons

Father Luis Olivares, a Biography

Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles

Mario T. García

Ghosts of Sheridan Circle

How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice

Alan McPherson

Julius Chambers

A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights

Richard A. Rosen, Joseph Mosnier

Fatal Revolutions

Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature

Christopher P. Iannini

Every Nation Has Its Dish

Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America

Jennifer Jensen Wallach

The Historian's Eye

Photography, History, and the American Present

Matthew Frye Jacobson

Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table

Contemporary Christianities in the American South

James Hudnut-Beumler

Stone Free

Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966–June 1967

Jas Obrecht

May We Forever Stand

A History of the Black National Anthem

Imani Perry

Voices of the Enslaved

Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana

Sophie White

Gone Home

Race and Roots through Appalachia

Karida L. Brown

Recasting the Vote

How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement

Cathleen D. Cahill

A Saint of Our Own

How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American

Kathleen Sprows Cummings

A Union Indivisible

Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South

Michael D. Robinson

Colors of Confinement

Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II

Eric L. Muller, Bill Manbo

The Wilmington Ten

Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s

Kenneth Robert Janken

Imperial Metropolis

Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941

Jessica M. Kim

The Men and the Moment

The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America

Aram Goudsouzian

The Last Battleground

The Civil War Comes to North Carolina

Philip Gerard

American Baroque

Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700

Molly A. Warsh

Apostle of Union

A Political Biography of Edward Everett

Matthew Mason

The Lumbee Indians

An American Struggle

Malinda Maynor Lowery

Revolutionaries for the Right

Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War

Kyle Burke

Race for Profit

How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers

How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life

Tamara Plakins Thornton

Braxton Bragg

The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy

Earl J. Hess

Freedom Farmers

Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

Monica M. White, LaDonna Redmond

Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution

Caroline Cox, Robert L. Middlekauff

The Ordeal of the Reunion

A New History of Reconstruction

Mark Wahlgren Summers

Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery

The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union

Daniel W. Crofts

Cool Town

How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

Grace Elizabeth Hale

The War for the Common Soldier

How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies

Peter S. Carmichael

Color and Character

West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality

Pamela Grundy

A Thousand Thirsty Beaches

Smuggling Alcohol from Cuba to the South during Prohibition

Lisa Lindquist Dorr

City of a Million Dreams

A History of New Orleans at Year 300

Jason Berry

Putinomics

Power and Money in Resurgent Russia

Chris Miller

Colored Travelers

Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

The Men of Mobtown

Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation

Adam Malka

Embattled Freedom

Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps

Amy Murrell Taylor

Feminism for the Americas

The Making of an International Human Rights Movement

Katherine M. Marino

Blue Texas

The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era

Max Krochmal

Shelter in a Time of Storm

How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism

Jelani M. Favors

Illusions of Emancipation

The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery

Joseph P. Reidy

St. Francis of America

How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America's Most Popular Saint

Patricia Appelbaum

Fighting for Atlanta

Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War

Earl J. Hess

The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy

Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR

Chris Miller

Louis Austin and the Carolina Times

A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle

Jerry Gershenhorn

This War Ain't Over

Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America

Nina Silber

A Different Shade of Justice

Asian American Civil Rights in the South

Stephanie Hinnershitz

Goat Castle

A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South

Karen L. Cox

Religious Freedom

The Contested History of an American Ideal

Tisa Wenger

The Battle of Peach Tree Creek

Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta

Earl J. Hess

Dangerous Grounds

Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era

David L. Parsons

American Honor

The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era

Craig Bruce Smith

Labor Under Fire

A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979

Timothy J. Minchin

The Trouble with Minna

A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North

Hendrik Hartog

Black Firefighters and the FDNY

The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City

David Goldberg