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Erika Lee
America for Americans
A History of Xenophobia in the United States
An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impact

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
Barrio America
How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation’s cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight

Tom Holland
Dominion
How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
A historian of antiquity shows how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination

H.W. Brands
Dreams of El Dorado
A History of the American West
From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West

Ted Gioia
Music
A Subversive History
Preeminent music historian and critic Ted Gioia presents a global history of music from the bottom up
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