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[[File:Custer's_Trials.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px|<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307475948/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307475948&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=6eccf2096dd4cf86ddbb7879b2b7f0e1 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of American]</i>]]

<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307475948/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307475948&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=6eccf2096dd4cf86ddbb7879b2b7f0e1 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of American]</i> by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)

Custer is one of the most debated and controversial 19th century American military leaders. Stiles attempts to better understand a complicated man and shatter the mythology that has surrounded him. Stiles book shows that Custer helped shaped an era that he often struggled to adapt to. <i>Custer's Trials</i> was the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for history.The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner (W.W. Norton & Company)

A well-orchestrated examination of Lincoln's changing views of slavery, bringing unforeseeable twists and a fresh sense of improbability to a familiar story.

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0190628995/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0190628995&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=f1214f50c842fff902106dbc94eb6348 Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive] by Camilla Townsend (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016)

"Annals of Native America brings alive, in ways both exacting and exhilarating, the social and linguistic worlds inhabited by the authors of Nahuatl-language yearly accounts in colonial Mexico. By following their trajectory from their inception as documents in Roman script to their manifold transformations in a 'golden age' of native historical writing, Townsend provides a fresh and compelling perspective on the most vibrant set of historical narratives by indigenous scholars in the colonial Americas." ---Historian David Tazarez

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300234570/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300234570&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=3d1511896254f7aa4f36c298f20f6eef The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright] by Ann M. Little (Yale Univ. Press, 2016)

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/029930664X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=029930664X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=3cb419d4d8652c7090bd050513b730ff Understanding and Teaching American Slavery] edited by Bethany Jay and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2016)

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022634133X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=022634133X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=decf6a13dd9648365bc164a93b2e8cf5 Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans] by Julia Guarneri (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2017)

"As social history, Newsprint Metropolis offers a deeply sourced and engaging account of the complicated relationship between newspapers and cities, and the ways in which the two intersected. . .One of the strengths of Newsprint Metropolis is Guarneri's holistic approach with primary sources. She dives beyond front pages and intro newspaper folds, examining Sunday sections, comics, advice columns, theater sections, and business directories. And while large metropolitan dailies are covered, she does not forget the role weekly, African-American, and foreign language newspapers played in the lives of city dwellers." --''American Journalism''

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143120328/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143120328&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=be5dc30c6fcd4643019846b24446948d Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention], by Manning Marable (Viking)

An exploration of the legendary life and provocative views of one of the most significant African-Americans in U.S. history, a work that separates fact from fiction and blends the heroic and tragic.

"Manning Marable is the exemplary black scholar of radical democracy and black freedom in our time. His long-awaited magisterial book on Malcolm X is the definitive treatment of the greatest black radical voice and figure of the mid-twentieth century. Glory Hallelujah!" --Professor Cornel West

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674045718/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674045718&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=cad0359787f1b1cdf5991df146049661 Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century] by Tera W. Hunter (Belknap Press, 2017)

Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Uncovering the experiences of African American spouses in plantation records, legal and court documents, and pension files, Tera W. Hunter reveals the myriad ways couples adopted, adapted, revised, and rejected white Christian ideas of marriage. Setting their own standards for conjugal relationships, enslaved husbands and wives were creative and, of necessity, practical in starting and supporting families under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LXZFFW9/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B01LXZFFW9&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=bbcf87b26b1b476fdc8bd49ca148fa0a Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics], by Kim Phillips-Fein (Metropolitan Books)

When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country’s largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable. The city had to slash services, freeze wages, and fire thousands of workers, they insisted, or financial apocalypse would ensue. In this vivid account, historian Kim Phillips-Fein tells the remarkable story of the crisis that engulfed the city.

No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city's Jews and to sabotage the nation's military installations: plans existed for hanging twenty prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast.

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101875240/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1101875240&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=8a89f487e4b7e72f76c5d4fb19569445 Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It] by Larrie D. Ferreiro (Alfred A. Knopf)

"This book will revive in an enlightened way an old controversy among Americans—both historians and educated laymen—concerning the American Revolution: Could it have been won without French and Spanish help? Professor Ferreiro’s answer is clearly given in the subtitle and throughout his book. The book is excellent—based on solid research and wide reading, argued with much spirit and insight. It is an illuminating and suggestive study deserving of a wide readership in and out of universities and colleges." -- Historian Robert L. Middlekauff

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631491466/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1631491466&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e81d1d69c5b2bd91f85443a85e998ad3 Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War], by Brian Matthew Jordan (Liveright/Norton)

In the model of twenty-first-century histories like Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering or Maya Jasanoff ’s Liberty’s Exiles that illuminate the plight of the common man, Marching Home makes almost unbearably personal the rage and regret of Union veterans. Their untold stories are critically relevant today.

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393352277/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393352277&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=9a3fb8f64ed4048080bcd5fb45964ca2 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor], by James M. Scott (W.W. Norton & Company)

On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations.

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