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Donald L. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History Emeritus at Lafayette College. Kirk Saduski is an award-winning producer. Order Masters of the Air at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission...
Bruce Henderson - "Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II"
Bruce Henderson is an American journalist and author of more than thirty nonfiction books, including a #1 New York Times bestseller. Order The Bridge to the Sun at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from...
Sarah Parry Myers - "Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition"
Sarah Parry Myers is an assistant professor of history at Messiah University. Order Earning Their Wings at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for...
America's Role in the World: World War I to World War II
Between World War I and World War II the United States emerged on the world stage as a superpower. This ascendancy had military, economic, humanitarian, and cultural dimensions. Some Americans expressed discomfort with this unwelcome...
Daniel Greene and Edward Phillips - "Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader"
Daniel Greene, formerly the president and librarian at the Newberry Library, is an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University. Edward J. Phillips joined the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 and directed...
Jia Lynn Yang - "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924-1965
Jia Lynn Yang is national editor at the New York Times . Order One Mighty and Irresistible Tide at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for...
Catherine Ceniza Choy - "Asian American Histories of the United States"
Catherine Ceniza Choy is a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Order Asian American Histories at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link...
Jane Hong - "Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion"
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Ada Ferrer - "Cuba: An American History"
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Matthew F. Delmont - "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad"
Matthew F. Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Order Half American at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided...
Craig L. Symonds - "Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay"
Craig L. Symonds is a professor emeritus at the US Naval Academy. Order Nimitz at War at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our...
Chloe Melas - "The Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe"
Chloe Melas, the author of a new introduction for this edition of her grandfather’s work, is a journalist with CNN. Order Luck of the Draw at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through...
Beverly Gage - "G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century"
Beverly Gage is a professor of twentieth-century American history at Yale and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Order G-Man at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided....
Derek LeeBaert - "Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made"
Derek LeeBaert is the Truman Book Award winner and co-founder of the National Museum of the United States Army. Order Unlikely Heroes at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the...
Ken Burns - "Our America: A Photographic History"
Ken Burns, the producer and director of numerous film series, including The Roosevelts: An Intimate History and Country Music , founded his own documentary film company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His landmark film, The Civil War ,...
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham - "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans"
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Order From Slavery to Freedom at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate...
Fredrik Logevall - "JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956"
Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a professor of history at Harvard University. Order JFK at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an...
Buzz Bissinger - "The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II"
Buzz Bissinger is a journalist who has won a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Order The Mosquito Bowl at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank...
Steven A. Steinbach and Maeva Marcus - "With Liberty and Justice for All? The Constitution in the Classroom"
Steven A. Steinbach teaches US history and government at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington DC and Maeva Marcus is a professor of law at George Washington University. Order With Liberty and Justice for All? at the Gilder...
Michael Mandelbaum - "The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower"
Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Order The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop...
Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, and Lisa McGirr - "Give Me Liberty! An American History"
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lisa McGirr is a Charles Warren Professor of American...
Jeff Nussbaum - "Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History"
Jeff Nussbaum is a speechwriter and adjunct professor of public communications at American University. Order Undelivered at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided...
The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Across the long arc of American history, three moments in particular have disproportionately determined the course of the Republic’s development. Each respectively distilled the experience and defined the historical legacy of a...
Eric Rauchway - "Why the New Deal Matters"
Eric Rauchway is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis. Order Why the New Deal Matters at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank...
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross - "A Black Women's History of the United States"
Daina Ramey Berry is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kali Nicole Gross is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of African American Studies at Emory...
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