Books like To America by Stephen E. Ambrose

A compelling overview of American history through the eyes and experiences of its women, workers, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working poor.

Explores the experiences of the 101st Airborne Division from their D-Day drop in Normandy through key battles in Europe to the end of World War II.

Stephen E. Ambrose chronicles the ordinary U.S. soldiers of the European Theater from the day after D‑Day to the final Allied victory, drawing on extensive interviews to present a vivid account of the war’s brutal campaigns.

Tom Brokaw chronicles the lives of American veterans who shaped the modern United States, from the Great Depression through World War II and beyond, offering intimate portraits of duty, courage, and the enduring impact of the Greatest Generation.

"Woodrow Wilson, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of America's founding identity: it was a land of the free and a home of the brave. But not the braves. Or the slaves. Or the disenfranchised women. So the history of Wilson's generation omitted a significant proportion of the population in favor of a perspective that was predominantly white, male, and Protestant." "That flaw would become a fissure and eventually a schism. A new history arose which, written in part by radicals and liberals, had little use for the noble and the heroic, and rankled many who wanted a celebratory rather than a critical history. To this combustible mixture of elements was added the flame of public debate. History in the 1990s was a minefield of competing passions, political views, and prejudices. It was dangerous ground, and, at the end of the decade, four of the nation's most respected and popular historians were almost destroyed on it: Michael Bellesiles, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose, and Joseph Ellis." "This is their story, set against the wider narrative of America's history. It may be, as Flaubert put it, that "Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times." To which he could have added: falsify, plagiarize, and politicize, because that's the other story of America's history."--BOOK JACKET.

In this new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century, historian Wills showcases Henry Adams's little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this day. Adams drew on his own southern fixation, extensive foreign travel, political service in Lincoln's White House, and much more to invent the study of history as we know it. His chronicle established new standards for employing archival sources, firsthand reportage, eyewitness accounts, and other techniques that have become the essence of modern history. Adams's innovations went beyond the technical; he posited an ironic view of the legacy of Jefferson and Madison: they strove to shield the young country from "foreign entanglements," a standing army, a central bank, and a federal bureaucracy, among other hallmarks of "big government"--yet by the end of their tenures they had permanently entrenched all of these things in American society. This is the "American paradox" that defines us today.--From publisher description.

"In this newly revised and updated edition, Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley bring together a collection of eyewitness accounts and illustrations that chronicles the American experience from the perspectives of those who participated in its making."--BOOK JACKET. "Originally edited in 1939 by Henry Steele Commager and Allan Nevins, Witness to America includes more than 150 works drawn from more than two hundred years of American history, from the first shots of the Revolutionary War to the closing of the Twentieth Century."--BOOK JACKET.

A scholarly examination of Adolf Hitler through the lens of his many biographers, analyzing how historians’ biases shape the portrayal of the Führer and the historiography of National Socialism.