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A Big Western Life: The Challenging Biography of Granville Stuart

A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi

A Country without Illusions: Wallace Stegner in His Time and Ours

A Family in Flight: Self-censorship in Personal Letters

Andrew Carnegie: Making Millions and Giving It Away

B

Beat Prose and the Journey Home: Jack Kerouac's Struggle with the Road

Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

Brother Doc: An Unlikely Twentieth-Century American Revolutionary

C

Civil Rights in the Era of Jesse Jackson, 1966-1990

Clothes along the Mohawk: William Johnson and the Iroquois

D

Dean Acheson: Architect of the American Century

Drinking Yourself to Death in the Grand Age of Temperance: Edgar Allan Poe and the Art of Self-Destruction

Dynasty and Dissent: John Wooden, UCLA, and the Politics of College Basketball

E

Editing Andrew Jackson

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Mortal Enemy of Capitalism

Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: Celebrity and Aristocracy in the Early American Republic

F

Faulkner and Southern History

Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical

Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War

From Celebrated Hero to Dangerous Outcast: Thomas Paine's Journey and the Course of Early American Democracy

G

George Washington's Bad Decisions

Gertrude Stein, Race, and the New Woman

H

Harriet Jacobs’s 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl': Slave Narratives and the Antislavery Struggle

Helen Hamilton Gardener’s Audacious Pursuit of Equality and the Vote

I

Indian Captive, Indian King: The Hard Fate and Curious Career of Peter Williamson

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Learning from Lincoln

Like Mother, Like Daughter? Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Horry, Plantation Mistresses, 1739–1830

M

Mark Twain's Autobiography Reconsidered: The Late Years

Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Presidents, Politics, and Gender in the Early American Republic

Muhammad Ali: Man of Many Voices

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Nathan Hale: Sociability and Patriotism in the American Revolution

Nearer My Subject to Thee: Reflections of a Biographer, Historian, and Documentary Editor

P

Philip Vickers Fithian: Coming of Age in the American Enlightenment

Prophet of Freedom

R

Radical Preacher-Activist: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner of the A.M.E. Church

Recording Robert Johnson: The Birth of a Blues Legend

Recovering Ordinary Lives in American History

Rosa Parks, the Radical

S

Shirley Chisholm: An Unbought and Unbossed Catalyst for Change

Shirley Chisholm: Urban Liberalism, Feminism, and Black Liberation

T

"The Importance of Being Chisholm": Race, Gender, and Politics in the Life of Shirley Chisholm

Tales from the Crypt: Historiography and the Many Myths of Henry Ford

The Amazing, Awe-Inspiring (and Possibly Salacious) Life of Abraham Lincoln

The Biographer's Craft: One Historian's Perspective

The Braided Lives of Lucy and Scipio Pernam, African New Englanders

The Burning of Papers and the Biographers' Craft

The Challenge of Feminist Biography

The Course of a Life: The Curriculum Vitae, Who We Are, and the Boundaries of Knowledge

The Four Lives of Margaret Naumburg

The Imagined America of William McKendree Gwin: Expansion, Secession, and the Unstable Borders of Nineteenth-Century North America

The Inner Life and Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Life and Work of Claude McKay

The Life and Work of John Brown Russwurm

The Making of the American Nietzsche

The Many Lives of Mary Lincoln

The Method in Her Madness: Recovering the True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in Confederate Richmond

The Natural: The Rise of Mickey Mantle

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

Thomas Paine: America's Other Founding Father

U

Ulysses S. Grant: Hero in War, Hero in Peace, and Hero in Civil Rights

Understanding and Interpreting a Life: Helen Gurley Brown

W

Was Mom Chung a "Sister Lesbian"? Asian American Gender Experimentation and Interracial Homoeroticism

With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Activist’s Life

Woman of Two Worlds: Anna Chennault, Informal Diplomacy, and U.S.-Asian Relations

Writing My Life in History and in Practice