U.S. History

Democracy in the Dark The Seduction of Government Secrecy Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.	Sherman’s Ghosts Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War Matthew Carr	Madison’s Music On Reading the First Amendment Burt Neuborne	Social Security Works! Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All Nancy J. Altman, Eric R. Kingson
Equal Means Equal Why the Time for an Equal Rights Amendment Is Now Jessica Neuwirth	The First Lady of Radio Eleanor Roosevelt’s Historic Broadcasts Stephen Drury Smith	Remembering Jim Crow African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad	Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus What Your History Books Got Wrong James W. Loewen
Founding Myths Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past Ray Raphael	A New Leaf The End of Cannabis Prohibition Alyson Martin, Nushin Rashidian	Killing Machine The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare Lloyd C. Gardner	The Cultural Cold War The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters Frances Stonor Saunders
Howard Zinn A Life on the Left Martin Duberman	A People’s History of the U.S. Military Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on Their Experience of War, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan Michael A. Bellesiles	Wrong Turn America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency Colonel Gian Gentile	Lessons from the Heartland A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City Barbara J. Miner