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hey /lit/

what's a good book about american history? I'm not an amerifag but I'm pretty interested in its history.

any recommendations? thanks a lot

>> No.1238323
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1238323

>america
>history

>> No.1238322

non fiction or fiction?

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1238327

>american history

>> No.1238333

>>1238323
>>1238327
>>1238317
samefag

>> No.1238338

>>1238322

non-fiction

>> No.1238339

>>1238333

i'm OP and i can assure I'm not so stupid. my only other post was this one:
>>1238333

now that i think about it, i don't even know why i'm answering this

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1238340

1776

>> No.1238342

>>1238317
A Voyage Long and Strange, it covers all the explorations and first settlements of the Americas.

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
1776 by David G. McCullough
Undaunted Courage
Blood And Thunder: An Epic of the American West
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts


Avoid Howard Zinn, he is a man with an agenda and puts historicity second.

>> No.1238349

>>1238327
>>1238323
>Small colony winning independence from a large empire and being founded on Enlightenment principles and eventually becoming one of the most, if not the most, powerful nations is not interesting. Sure.

>> No.1238354

a people's history of the united states of amerikka by howard zinn

>> No.1238358

founding brothers
the right stuff

>> No.1238360

>>1238354
Avoid this one.

>> No.1238364

>>1238360

don't listen to this person. it's a great book.

>> No.1238368

>>1238339
you answered it because you knew it looked suspicious.

>> No.1238375

>>1238364
If you hate history and like speculation, than yes.

>> No.1238376

>>1238342
>Avoid Howard Zinn, he is a man with an agenda and puts historicity second.

This is a load of crap. Every historian incubates bias and Zinn is entirely forthcoming about his own. Speaking directly of A People's History, it's a supplementary text, and that's all it aims to be - a telling of the stories avoided by traditional histories. It's certainly worth reading.

>> No.1238378

>>1238375

this man is a republican. he distrusts "academic elites"

>> No.1238381

>>1238342

thanks for that list, I'm checking out some of them in amazon.
i find these books to be pretty specific; they all cover a very short time range and deal with the topics at that given time thoroughly.

what i'd love would be a book that encompasses 1776-2000. I feel like I first need to know a little bit of everything and then, once I'm comfortable with the amount of knowledge i have, embark on a book like the ones you put in that list.

>> No.1238386

>>1238378
I hate republicans and people who don't ever use capitalization.

>> No.1238397

get a high school american history text book. preferably an AP approved one. that will give you a basic introduction and cover the whole time span

>> No.1238404

>>1238386

bLoW mE

>> No.1238405

Anything published before 1970 will be okay. After that American History texts become increasingly politicized, to the extent that current "literature" about American History is exclusively about the ostensible suffering of some worthless niggers and how they "construct narratives of personal identity" or some bullshit like that.

>> No.1238407

>>1238397
This.

America Past and Present, Volume 1 & 2 should do you well.

>> No.1238413

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

>> No.1238536

The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck

>> No.1238562

The American Pageant is a solid option.

>> No.1238574

>>1238562
Had to read that in my AP US History class 3 years ago. It's good, but so boring .