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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

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The Demon of Unrest

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Collision of Power

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Black in Blues

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The Wide Wide Sea

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The Longest Day

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The Nine

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The Gales of November

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Medieval Horizons

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The Illegals

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A People's History of the United States

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The Undiscovered Country

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The Radium Girls

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By Hands Now Known

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The Black History Book

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Patton's Prayer

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Roots

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The Devil in the White City

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Freedom's Forge

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The British Are Coming

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Stamped from the Beginning

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The Fate of the Generals

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New York Times: Disunion

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1776

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Sword and Scimitar

Raymond Ibrahim & Victor Davis Hanson

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Area 51

Annie Jacobsen

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Damien Lewis

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Black AF History

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Blind Man's Bluff

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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

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Targeted: Beirut

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Delta Force

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Hitler and the Habsburgs

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Yeager: An Autobiography

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Astoria

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The Splendid and the Vile

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D-Day

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Challenger

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One Nation Under Blackmail - Vol. 1

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East West Street

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American Gun

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Empress of the Nile

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Nuclear War

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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

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Island at the Edge of the World

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The Greek Revolution

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The River of Doubt

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Race of Aces

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A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition

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American MiG Pilot

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The Lives of the Caesars

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On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

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Firestorm

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The Fatal Shore

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Dead Wake

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In the Garden of Beasts

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The Bomber Mafia

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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

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The Upswing

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Endurance

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River of the Gods

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Mother Emanuel

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Red Dawn Over China

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The War Within a War

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Nexus

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Strongmen

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Masters of the Air

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Shadow Divers

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No Ordinary Time

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Killing the SS

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Confronting the Presidents

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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World History
Native Nations

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Empire of Things

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Papillon

Henri Charrière

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If You Survive

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The Boys in the Light

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Confronting Evil

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Dominion

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Lone Survivor

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The Sleepwalkers

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Great Decisions 2026

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The Accidental President

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Code Name: Lise

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Beyond the Tracks

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History
The Course of Human Events

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History
On War

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Guadalcanal's Longest Fight

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King of Kings

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The Mighty Continent

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The Sea Captain's Wife

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Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition

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The 1619 Project

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SPQR

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Five Years to Freedom

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Caroline Fraser

U.S. History

Pamela D. Toler

World History

Ada Ferrer

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Roger Moorhouse

European History

Frederick Taylor

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Erik Larson

U.S. History

Martin Baron

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Jack Sacco

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Imani Perry

History

Hampton Sides

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Cornelius Ryan

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Gwen Strauss

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John U. Bacon

U.S. History

Ian Mortimer

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Shaun Walker

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Howard Zinn

U.S. History

Paul Andrew Hutton

U.S. History

Kate Moore

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Margaret A. Burnham

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DK

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Alex Kershaw

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Alex Haley

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Erik Larson

U.S. History

Arthur Herman

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Rick Atkinson

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Ibram X. Kendi

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Jonathan Horn

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The New York Times, Clay Risen, George Kalogerakis & Ted Widmer

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David McCullough

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Raymond Ibrahim & Victor Davis Hanson

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Annie Jacobsen

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Damien Lewis

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Michael Harriot

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Walter Isaacson

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