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The Making of the U.S. Constitution
Constitution Making: Conflict and Consensus in the Federal Convention of 1787
  by Calvin C. Jillson

Creating the Constitution: The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress
  by Thornton Anderson

The American Founding: Essays on the Formation of the Constitution
  edited by J. Jackson Barlow, Leonard W. Levy, and Ken Masugi

Historical Social Life in England
Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation
  by G. G. Coulton

Social Life in England, 1750-1850
  by F.J. Foakes Jackson

Social Life in the Days of Piers Plowman
  by D. Chadwick

African-American Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War
Black Troops, White Commanders, and Freedmen during the Civil War
  by Howard C. Westwood

On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front
  by Corporal James Henry Gooding, edited by Virginia Matzke Adams

History of Black Americans: From the Compromise of 1850 to the End of the Civil War
  by Philip S. Foner

Abolition of Slavery in the United States
The Crusade against Slavery, 1830-1860
 by Louis Filler

The Neglected Period of Anti-Slavery in America, 1808-1831
 by Alice Dana Adams

Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation
 edited by C. Peter Ripley, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, & Donald Yacovone

The Abolitionists: A Collection of Their Writing
 edited by Louis Ruchames

Mahatma Gandhi and Nonviolent Political Change
Mahatma Gandhi: Peaceful Revolutionary
 by Haridas T. Muzumdar

Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)
 by Mahatma Gandhi

War Without Violence: A Study of Gandhi's Method and Its Accomplishments
 by Krishnalal Shridharani

Gandhi on War and Peace
 by Rashmi-Sudha Puri

Women in the American Old West
Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives
 edited by Lillian Schlissel, Vicki L. Ruiz, & Janice Monk

Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915
 by Sandra L. Myres

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1840-1849
 edited by Kenneth L. Holmes

The End of the Cold War
Why the Cold War Ended: A Range of Interpretations
 edited by Ralph Summy & Michael E. Salla

The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War
  by Raymond L. Garthoff

After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World
 edited by James A. Scott

Treatment of Japanese-Americans During World War II
The Managed Casualty: The Japanese-American Family in World War II
 by Leonard Broom & John I. Kitsuse

Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II
 by Gary Y. Okihiro & Joan Myers

Racism, Dissent, and Asian Americans from 1850 to the Present: A Documentary History
 edited by Philip S. Foner & Daniel Rosenberg

Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple
 by Louis Fiset

History of the U.S. Welfare System
The American Welfare System: Origins, Structure, and Effects
 edited by Howard Gensler

Welfare as We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State
 by Charles Noble

In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America
 by Michael B. Katz

Safety Net: Welfare and Social Security, 1929-1979
 by Blanche D. Coll

The Effect of Propaganda on Attitudes About War
Propaganda for War: The Campaign against American Neutrality, 1914-1917
 by H. C. Peterson

Public Opinion and the Spanish-American War: A Study in War Propaganda
 by Marcus M. Wilkerson

Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
 by Paul Fussell

Origins of World War II
The Outbreak of the Second World War: Design or Blunder?
 edited by John L. Snell

America and the Origins of World War II, 1933-1941
 edited by Arnold A. Offner

Causes and Consequences of World War II
 edited by Robert A. Divine

China's Cultural Revolution
The East Wind Subsides: Chinese Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Cultural Revolution
 by Andrew Hall Wedeman

China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969: Not a Dinner Party
 edited by Michael Schoenhals

Children of the Cultural Revolution: Family Life and Political Behavior in Mao's China
 by Xiaowei Zang

Prisoners of War
We Were Each Other's Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II American and German Prisoners of War
 by Lewis H. Carlson

Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity
 by Richard B. Speed III

Andersonville: The Last Depot
 by William Marvel

Women Survivors of the Holocaust
Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust
 edited by Carol Rittner & John K. Roth

Courage to Remember: Interviews on the Holocaust
 by Kinue Tokudome

Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust
 by Marlene E. Heinemann

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