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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
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
L
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
N
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
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