Amazon Editor's Best History Books of 2023

by Amazon
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20 books
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King: A Life

Jonathan Eig, 2023

Flee North

A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
Scott Shane, 2023

You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live

Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
Paul Kix, 2023

Fire Weather

A True Story from a Hotter World
John Vaillant, 2023

When Crack Was King

A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
Donovan X. Ramsey, 2023

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Mary Beard, 2023

How Far to the Promised Land

One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
Esau McCaulley, 2023

The Sisterhood

The Secret History of Women at the CIA
Liza Mundy, 2023

Black AF History

The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Michael Harriot, 2022

Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, 2023

The Rediscovery of America

Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk, 2023

I Saw Death Coming

A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction
Kidada E. Williams, 2023

Dinner with the President

Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
Alex Prud'homme, 2023

Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

Blair LM Kelley, 2023

Democracy Awakening

Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, 2023

The Six

The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
Loren Grush, 2023

Blood Memory

The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, 2023

A Fever in the Heartland

The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan, 2023

White House by the Sea

A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port
Kate Storey, 2023