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The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

by Deborah Blum

Biography & Autobiography: Social Activists Political Science: Public Policy – Agriculture & Food Policy

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

by Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe

Biography & Autobiography: Business (Biography)Biography & Autobiography: Rich & Famous

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The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

by Simon Winchester

Biography & Autobiography: Adventuerers & Explorers History: Social History

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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

by Joanne Freeman

History: United States – Civil War Period (1850 – 1877)Political Science: American Government – Legislative Branch

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Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America’s Favorite Spectator Sport

by Matthew Algeo

Sports & Recreation: History (Sports)Sports & Recreation: Walking

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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

by Abraham Lincoln & Jon Meacham

Biography & Autobiography: Presidents & Head of States Political Science: American Government – Executive Branch

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Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism

by Joel Richard Paul

Biography & Autobiography: Political (Biography)

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This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

by Matthew Karp

History: United States – State & Local – South (AL. AR. FL. GA. KY. LA. MS. NC. SC. TN. VA. WV)

Harriet Tubman Prize

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Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants

by H.W. Brands

Biography & Autobiography: Political (Biography)History: Modern – 19th Century

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Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America

by Jim Rasenberger

History: Military – Weapons

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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States 1783 – 1850

by Alan Taylor

History: Modern – 19th Century History: United States – Revolutionary Period (1775 – 1800)

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Progressives in Navy Blue: Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873 * 1898

by Scott Mobley

History: Military – Naval History: Military – United States

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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President – and Why It Failed

by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch

Biography & Autobiography: Presidents & Head of States History: United States – Civil War Period (1850 – 1877)

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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

by David McCullough

History: United States – Revolutionary Period (1775 – 1800)History: United States – State & Local – Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)

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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

by Danielle Dreilinger

History: United States – 20th Century History: Women (History)

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

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The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840

by Akhil Reed Amar

History: United States – Colonial Period (1600 – 1775)History: United States – Revolutionary Period (1775 – 1800)

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The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

by Bettye Kearse

Biography & Autobiography: Personal Memoirs History: African American (History)

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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

by Candice Millard

Biography & Autobiography: Presidents & Head of States

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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

by Tiya Miles

Biography & Autobiography: Women (Biography)History: African-American

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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

by Rinker Buck

Travel: Essays & Travelogues Travel: United States – West – General

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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

by Amy Sohn

History: United States – State & Local – Middle Atlantic (DC. DE. MD. NJ. NY. PA.)Social Science: Abortion & Birth Control

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Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

by Catherine Kerrison

Biography & Autobiography: Historical Biography & Autobiography: Women (Biography)

George Washington Prize

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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

by Stephen Kinzer

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Light-Horse Harry Lee: The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero – The Tragic Life of Robert E. Lee’s Father

by Ryan Cole

Biography & Autobiography: Military History: United States – Revolutionary Period (1775 – 1800)

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Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

by Tom Clavin

History: United States – State & Local – Southwest (AZ NM OK TX)

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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West

by Tom Clavin

History: United States – State & Local – Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)

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Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation

by Steve Luxenberg

History: African-American Law: Constitutional

Cundill History Prize

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Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery

by Calvin Schermerhorn

History: African American (History)

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Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America’s Heartland

by Peter Cozzens

Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic. & Regional – Native American & Aboriginal History: Native American

George Washington Prize

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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

by Joshua D. Rothman

History: African-American History: United States – State & Local – South (AL. AR. FL. GA. KY. LA. MS. NC. SC. TN. VA. WV)

Harriet Tubman Prize

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“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

by Annette Gordon-Reed & Peter S. Onuf

Biography & Autobiography: Presidents & Head of States History: United States – Revolutionary Period (1775 – 1800)

George Washington Prize

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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

by Heather Cox Richardson

History: United States – 20th Century Social Science: Discrimination & Race Relations

Goodread’s Choice Awards – History & Biography

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John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law

by Beth Lew-Williams

History / Asian American Law / Civil Rights

Cundill History Prize

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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

by Blair LM Kelley

History: African American (History)History: United States – 20th Century

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President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

by C.W. Goodyear

Biography & Autobiography: Historical Biography & Autobiography: Presidents & Head of States

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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

by Rachel L. Swarns

Education: Higher History: African American (History)

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

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The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History

by Laurence Jurdem

Biography & Autobiography: Presidents & Head of States History: United States – 20th Century

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Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America

by Christine Leigh Heyrman

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A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

by Troy Senik

Biography & Autobiography: Political (Biography)Biography & Autobiography: Presidents & Head of States

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Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity

by Michael Meyer

Biography & Autobiography: Historical Business & Economics: Personal Finance – Investing

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Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them

by John Bainbridge Jr

Biography & Autobiography: Historical History: Military – Weapons

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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World

by Scott Reynolds Nelson

Business & Economics: Economic History History: World – General

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Prisoners of the Bashaw: The Nineteen-Month Captivity of American Sailors in Tripoli, 1803–1805

by Frederick Leiner

History: Africa – North History: Maritime History & Piracy

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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America

by Megan Kate Nelson

Biography & Autobiography: Biography – Environmentalist & Naturalist Biography & Autobiography: Personal Memoirs

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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

by Mark Lee Gardner

Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic. & Regional – Native American & Aboriginal History: United States – State & Local – West (AK CA CO HI ID MT NV UT WY)

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The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison

by Nicholas Guyatt

History: Europe – Great Britain – Georgian Era – (1714 – 1837)History: Military – War of 1812

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The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe

by Kevin Gutzman

Biography & Autobiography: Presidents & Head of States

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The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America

by H.W. Brands

History: Military – United States History: Native American

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