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Adams, Henry, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
Allen, Frederick Lewis, Only Yesterday
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Band of Brothers
Citizen Soldiers
Arendt, Hannah, Eichmann in Jerusalem
Ball, Edward, Slaves in the Family
Beal, Merrill D., "I Will Fight No More Forever": Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
Begin, Menachem, White Nights
Bernardi, Adria, Houses with Names: The Italian Immigrants of Highwood, Illinois
Bernstein, Carl and Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
Bettmann, Otto L., The Good Old Days: They Were Terrible!
Bishop, Jim, The Day Kennedy Was Shot
Blow, Michael, The History of the Atomic Bomb
Boorstin, Daniel, The Discoverers
Breznitz, Shlomo, Memory Fields
Brokaw, Tom, The Greatest Generation
Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bryson, Bill, Made in America
Burke, James
Connections
Connections II
Cahill, Thomas
How the Irish Saved Civilization
The Gifts of the Jews
Campbell, George V., North Shore Line Memories
Caro, Robert A.
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
Catt, Carrie Chapman, Woman Suffrage and Politics
Catton, Bruce
A Stillness at Appomattox
Terrible Swift Sword
Chang, Jung, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Chesnut, Mary, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
Churchill, Winston
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
The Second World War
Coddington, Edwin B., The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command
Davidowicz, Lucy, The War Against the Jews
Dillon, Martin, God and the Gun
Dobbs, Michael, Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Fall, Bernard, Hell in a Very Small Place
Feifer, Maxine, Tourism in History
Fischer, David, Paul Revere’s Ride
Ford, Daniel, Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group
Franklin, John Hope, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans (and other titles)
Fraser, Antonia
Mary, Queen of Scots
The Wives of Henry VIII
Freeman, Douglas Southall, Lee’s Lieutenants, A Study in Command
Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory
Gage, Nicholas, Eleni
Gibbon, Edward, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, No Ordinary Time
Grant, Mitchell, The Twelve Caesars
Gress, David, From Plato to NATO
Halberstam, David
The Best and the Brightest
The Fifties
Hegel, Georg, The Philosophy of History
Herodotus, The History
Herold, J. Christopher, Bonaparte in Eygpt
Herring, George C.
America’s Longest War
Highland Park News, Highland Park News Centennial Souvenir Ed. 1869-1969
Highwood Centennial Committee, Highwood, Illinois: 100 Years of Progress: 1887-1987
Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European Jews
Hope, Murry, The Sirius Connection
Houston, Jeanne, Farewell to Manzanar
Howarth, David, 1066: The Year of the Conquest
Howe, Irving, World of Our Fathers
Huizinga, Johan, The Waning of the Middle Ages
Jacobs, Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Jefferson, Thomas, Notes on the State of Virginia
Johnson, Paul, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties
Jordan, Zbigniew A., The Evolution of Dialectical Materialism
Karnow, Stanley, Vietnam: A History
Kennedy, Paul
The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Kershaw, Ian, Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris
Ketchum, Richard, Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War
Klemperer, Victor, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941
Levine, Peter, Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience
Loewen, James W., Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lundstrom, John, The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign
Madison, James et al., The Federalist Papers
Mahan, A.T., The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
Makower, Joel, Boom! Talkin’ About Our Generation
Manchester, William R.
The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
McLeod, Kirsty, The Last Summer: May to September 1914
McPherson, James, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Era of the Civil War
Mervin, Sabrina and Carol Prunhuber, Women: Around the World and Through the Ages
Miller, Donald, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
Moody, Anne, Coming of Age in Mississippi
Morris, Edmund, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Novas, Himilce, Everything You Need to Know About Latino History
O’Brien, Tim, If I Die in a Combat Zone
Orwell, George, Homage to Catalonia
Parry, Albert, Garrets and Pretenders
Pearson, Hugh
The Shadow of the Panther
Plutarch
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Randall, John Herman, The Making of the Modern Mind
Remnick, David, Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Robinson, Cyril Edward, Apollo History of Greece
Salisbury, Harrison Evans, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
Shils, Edward, Tradition
Shirer, William
The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Spiegelman, Art
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale II
Stevens, Doris
Jailed for Freedom
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Tuchman, Barbara W.
A Distant Mirror
The Guns of August
The Proud Tower
Ulam, Adam, The Bolsheviks
Virga, Vincent, Eyes of the Nation
Weber, Max, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Weir, Alison
The Princes in the Tower
The Wars of the Roses
Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill (ed.), One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement
White, Theodore H., The Making of the President, 1960
Williams, Juan, Eyes on the Prize
Wills, Garry, Lincoln at Gettysburg
Wittelle, Marvyn
28 Miles North: The Story of Highwood
Pioneer to Commuter: The Story of Highland Park
Wood, Michael
In Search of the Dark Ages
In Search of the Trojan War
Woodham-Smith, Cecil, The Reason Why
Zinn, Howard, A People’s History of the United States
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