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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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Travels with Charley

By John Steinbeck ,

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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

By Richard Hofstadter ,

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The Johnstown Flood
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The Johnstown Flood

By David McCullough ,

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Goodbye to a River: A Narrative
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Goodbye to a River

By John Graves ,

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black

By Lorraine Hansberry ,

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Division Street: America
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Division Street

By Studs Terkel ,

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Great Issues in American History, Vol. I: From Settlement to Revolution, 1584-1776
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Great Issues in American History, Vol. I

By Richard Hofstadter , Clarence L. Ver Steeg ,

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Prelude to Civil War
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Prelude to Civil War

By William W. Freehling ,

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The Burden of Southern History
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The Burden of Southern History

By C. Vann Woodward ,

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Etchings of a Whaling Cruise
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Etchings of a Whaling Cruise

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Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman
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Mothers of the South

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A Museum of Early American Tools
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A Museum of Early American Tools

By Eric Sloane ,

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6000 Miles of Fence
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6000 Miles of Fence

By Cordia Sloan Duke , Joe B. Frantz ,

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Huey Long
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Huey Long

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The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington
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The Progressive Historians

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Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850's
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Prelude to Greatness

By Don E. Fehrenbacher ,

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The Appalachians
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The Appalachians

By Maurice Brooks ,

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Anson Jones: The Last President of Texas
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Anson Jones

By Herbert Gambrell ,

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Black Like Me
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Black Like Me

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The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849 and 1866
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The Cholera Years

By Charles E. Rosenberg ,

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The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalence
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The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly

By Ellis W. Hawley ,

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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
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Where Do We Go from Here

By Martin Luther King, Jr. ,

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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Thirteen Days

By Robert F. Kennedy ,

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The Armies of the Night
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The Armies of the Night

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