Rambles: history

history

U.S. history		Native American
Colonial, Revolutionary & the Birth of a Nation: 1492-1800	19th Century, Antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction & the Wild West: 1801-1900
Early 20th Century, World War I, Roaring '20s, Great Depression & World War II: 1901-1945		Late 20th Century, the Cold War Era to present: 1946-2024
Places in history		Africa
Canada	England	France
Germany	India	Ireland
Mediterranean	Middle East	Scotland
Spain	Wales
Periods in history		Middle Ages
Renaissance	Age of Sail	World War II
General World History
Discovering & Re-enacting History		Biography & Autobiography


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North American history: Native American

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North American history: U.S. 1492-1800
Colonial, Revolutionary & the Birth of a Nation

Norman L. Baker
• Braddock's Road: Mapping the British Expedition from Alexandria to the Monongahela

John Braginton-Smith & Duncan Oliver
• Cape Cod Shore Whaling: America's First Whalemen

T.H. Breen
• Puritans & Adventurers

Jack Brubaker
• Remembering Lancaster County: Stories from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Robert Ellis Cahill
• New England's Naughty Navy

Ron Chepesiuk
• The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America

Jeremy D'Entremont
• Great Shipwrecks of the Maine Coast

Eric Jay Dolin
• Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
• Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

Joseph J. Ellis
• The Cause: The American Revolution & Its Discontents, 1773-1783

George Franklin Feldman
• Cannibalism, Headhunting & Human Sacrifice in North America

Arthur D. Graeff
• Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania Peacemaker

Frances Hill
• A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials

Katherine Howe, editor
• The Penguin Book of Witches

Carl Japikse, editor
• Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

Clay S. Jenkinson
• Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-inventing the American Republic in the 21st Century

Frank Joseph
• The Lost Treasure of King Juba: The Evidence of Africans in America before Columbus

Douglas Edward Leach
• Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces & Colonial Americans, 1677-1763

Toby Mac & Michael Tait
• Under God

Bill Mauldin
• Mud & Guts

Matthew P. Mayo
• Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England

Alice McGill
• Molly Bannaky, illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet

Donna Merwick
• Death of a Notary

Edmund S. Morgan
• The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89

James L. Nelson
• Benedict Arnold's Navy

Nick Offerman
• Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers

Kenneth Roberts
• The Battle of Cowpens

Stacy Schiff
• The Witches: Salem, 1692

Kent Thompson
• The Man Who Said No: Reading Jacob Bailey, Loyalist

Cathy Travis
• Constitution Translated for Kids

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• Good Wives: Image & Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

Barry Vann
• Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage

Gore Vidal
• Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

John Hardy Wright
• Sorcery in Salem

Richard Zacks
• The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd

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North American history: U.S. 1801-1900
19th Century, Antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction & the West

Frederick Allen
• A Decent Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes

Steve Babson
• Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy

Larry D. Ball
• Tom Horn: In Life & Legend

Deanne Blanton & Lauren M. Cook
• They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War

John Boessenecker
• When Law was in the Holster

Walter R. Borneman
• 1812: The War that Forged a Nation

William Riley Brooksher
• Bloody Hill: The Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek

Arnold R. Brown
• Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter

Dee Brown
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Jack Brubaker
• Remembering Lancaster County: Stories from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Karen Elizabeth Chaney
• New England Remembers: Lizzie Borden

Stephen A. Channing
• Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina

Owen Chase
• The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

Larry S. Chowning
• Soldiers at the Doorstep

Gregory A. Coco
• On the Bloodstained Field
• On the Bloodstained Field II

Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
• Vanderbilt: The Rise & Fall of an American Dynasty

William J. Cooper
• The South & the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856

John W. Davis
• The Trial of Tom Horn

Jeremy D'Entremont
• Great Shipwrecks of the Maine Coast

Chris Dickon
• The Enduring Journey of the USS Chesapeake

Eric Jay Dolin
• Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, & Survival at the Edge of the World

Mark P. Donnelly & Daniel Diehl
• Pirates of New Jersey

Stephen Fox
• Wolf of the Deep

David Frew
• Shipwrecks of Lake Erie: Tragedy in the Quadrangle

Rick Geary
• The Borden Tragedy

Jerome A. Greene
• Nez Perce Summer 1877: The U.S. Army & the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis

Mark Grimsley
• And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864

Aubrey L. Haines
• An Elusive Victory: The Battle of the Big Hole

Samuel W. Hankins
• Simple Story of a Soldier: Life & Service in the 2d Mississippi Infantry

William C. Harris
• North Carolina & the Coming of the Civil War

Brian Hicks
• Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste & Her Missing Crew

Mitch Horowitz
• Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation

Paul Andrew Hutton, editor
• The Custer Reader

Michael P. Johnson
• Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia

Marc W. Kruman
• Parties & Politics in North Carolina, 1836-1865

Walter LaFeber
• The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898

Erik Larson
• Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, & the Deadliest Hurricane in History

John R. Lindermuth
• Digging Dusky Diamonds: A History of the Pennsylvania Coal Region

Steven E. Maffeo
• The Perfect Wreck: Old Ironsides & HMS Java

Matthew P. Mayo
• Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England

William McCarter
• My Life in the Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of Private William McCarter, 116th Pennsylvania Infantry, edited by Kevin E. O'Brien

David G. McCullough
• The Wright Brothers

Scott L. Mingus Sr.
• Beyond the Burning Bridge: Wrightsville, Pa., in the Civil War
• Marauders & Murderers: Civil War Mysteries of York County, Pa.

James L. Nelson
• Reign of Iron

David Nevin
• 1812

Ben Nussbaum & Gretchen Bacon, editors
• Gettysburg: Three Days That Saved the United States: Remembering the Civil War's Most Decisive Battle

Mary Barmeyer O'Brien
• Heart of the Trail: Stories of Covered Wagon Women

Wes Oleszewski
• Ghost Ships, Gales & Forgotten Tales

Geoffrey Perret
• Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief

Nathaniel Philbrick
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

David Rehak
• Did Lizzie Borden Axe for It?

Cara Robertson
• The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Frances Diane Robotti & James Vescovi
• The USS Essex & the Birth of the American Navy

Daniel N. Rolph
• My Brother's Keeper: Union & Confederate Soldiers' Acts of Mercy during the Civil War

Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee, Elders Cultural Advisory Council, & the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes
• The Salish People & the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Lee Sandlin
• Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild

Ruth Hoover Seitz
• Pennsylvania's Historic Places

Shekhar Shimpi
• Gold Mine! The California Gold Rush Story

Donald G. Shomette
• The Othello Affair

Hampton Sides
• Blood & Thunder

Daniel Stashower
• The Beautiful Cigar Girl