APPRECIATION: Jill Lepore's Remarkably Timely New American History Textbook
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Well-Suited to Our Age, it Is Meant to Double as a Civics Lesson
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Q&A: A Legendary Reporter On His Book on the 1960s, Filled with Heroes and Villains
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Surveying a Turbulent Decade from the Beatles to Andy Warhol to Robert Kennedy
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: The Arson That Wasn't, Dating Men When You Hate Men, and More
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And a Valuable New History of America Since 1974
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Being Broke in America, the Prison Business, and More
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And Jill Lepore’s Fine History of the United States, from Columbus to Trump
Read MoreREAD THIS: A Haunting Collection of Eyewitness Accounts of American Slavery
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First-Hand Recollections of the Middle Passage, Enslavement, Rebellion, and Escape
Read MoreREVIEW: The Remarkable True-Life Story of the Original Siamese Twins
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Chang and Eng Gained Fame in America -- and Were Called a "Freak of Nature"
Read MoreREVIEW: Trumpian Fantasies Have a Long History -- and Perhaps a Dire Future
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Kurt Andersen Says America Has Always Believed in Hokum -- but It's Looking Darker These Days
Read MoreREVIEW: Reexamining a Lost Era in American History: the Post-Civil War Years
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An Illuminating Survey of 1865-1896, Critical Years for the American Republic
Read MoreREVIEW: An Incisive New History of the Bloody 1971 Attica Prison Riot
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A Deeply Researched Study that is Not Afraid to Assign Blame for Needless Fatalities
Read MoreREVIEW: A Road Trip Through America's Utopias (Which Were Not All that Perfect)
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A Drive that Spans from Shakers in Kentucky to Thoreau's Pond in Massachusetts
Read MoreREVIEW: Obama Is One of America's Great Presidents -- Whether the Right Wing Admits It Or Not
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And There's Still Room for Him on Mt. Rushmore
Read MoreREVIEW: Fed Up With Politicians? A Leading Historian Explains Why They're America's True Heroes
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Leaders Like FDR and Lyndon Johnson Had a Knack for Getting Important Things Done
Read MoreReview: A History of a Smallpox Epidemic in 1721 Boston that Puts Colonial New England Under the Microscope
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It's a story that fans of medical history will find hard to resist
Read MoreReview: Sarah Vowell is Great -- But a Little Goes a Long Way
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"I’m all for the six or seven minute Vowell, which seems to be the right length for a yawp."
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