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TheLoopweaver's "Books on American History"

A group of books on American history, or on various aspects thereon. Either I’ve found them interesting or I’m looking forward to reading them.
1. America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
by Gail Collins
  
2. 1776
by David McCullough
  
3. Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
by Bruce Watson
  
4. The Battle for New York : The City at the Heart of the American Revolution
by Barnet Schecter
  
5. Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by David Hackett Fischer
  
6. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick
  
7. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
by Erik Larson
  
8. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
by Carol F. Karlsen
  
9. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
by David von Drehle
  
10. Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
by Lynn Sherr
  
11. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
by Russell Shorto
  
12. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
  
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 American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
by Joseph J. Ellis
  
14. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen Ambrose
  
15. John Adams
by David McCullough
  
16. Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  
17. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J. Ellis
  
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Created by TheLoopweaver on May 14, 2008.