Books like That's Not in My American History Book by Thomas Ayres

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

James W. Loewen critiques the portrayal of American history in leading textbooks, covering topics from pre‑Columbian peoples to Reconstruction, Helen Keller, Thanksgiving, and the Maimonides massacre, arguing for more accurate, inclusive teaching.

A chilling memoir detailing Solomon Northup's harrowing experience as a captive on a Louisiana plantation for twelve years, from 1841 to 1853.

Over the course of our history, freedom has been a living truth for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. In Eric Foner's stirring history, freedom's story is not the simple unfolding of a timeless truth, but an open-ended history of accomplishment and failure. Its impetus lies in the aspirations and sacrifice of millions of Americans, celebrated and anonymous, who have sought freedom's blessings. Its meaning is shaped not only in congressional debates and political treatises, but on plantations and picket lines, in parlors and bedrooms. Its cast of characters ranges from Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan, from former slaves seeking to breathe real meaning into emancipation to the union organizers, freedom riders, and women's rights advocates of our time. - Jacket flap.

Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.

The first of these works contains both factual and mythical material about George Washington; the second is an early reader combining moral lessons with reading and spelling.

Encyclopedia of the United States from the origins of its native people to the 1990s. Covers political, economic, cultural, and social history.