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James McPherson

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Military American 20TH Century Civil War

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Eric Foner

Eric Foner is a leading American historian specializing in the Reconstruction era and the history of slavery. His work s...

American 20TH Century Political Reconstruction

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Robert Caro

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American 20TH Century Power Political

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Raul Hilberg

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American 20TH Century Holocaust Administrative

9.2 Excellent

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Natalie Zemon Davis

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Bernard Bailyn

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American Intellectual 20TH Century Colonial

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David Brion Davis

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American Intellectual 20TH Century Transatlantic

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Stephen Kotkin

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American Contemporary Biography Soviet

9.1 Excellent

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Richard Hofstadter

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American Intellectual 20TH Century Political

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Edmund Morgan

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Gordon Wood

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American 20TH Century Political Revolutionary

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Ira Berlin

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African American American Social 20TH Century

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Taylor Branch

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Narrative American Contemporary Biography

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Barbara Tuchman

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Military Narrative American 20TH Century

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Nancy Cott

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American 20TH Century Womens History Gender

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Jill Lepore

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Narrative American Contemporary Cultural

8.3 Great

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Samuel Eliot Morison

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Narrative American 20TH Century Colonial

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Kevin Starr

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Narrative American California Cultural

8.1 Great

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

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American 20TH Century Political Presidential

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Daniel Boorstin

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American Intellectual Cultural 20TH Century

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