>>25310301
i dare you to read douglas southall freeman's unabridged biography of washington

>>25310310

>books total over 3600 pages
>audiobooks split into 7 different books each at least over 15 hours

holy shit lol

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>>25310301
Mayflower by Philbrick seems like an obvious choice.
I second the Foote choice.
Go straight to the source and read Rights of Man, some of the Federalist Papers? Or maybe a selection of Jefferson (pictured)?
I'd add some fiction actually, try Gore Vidal's Burr and Lincoln.

>>25310317
yeah. i've read the first one and it's very good, only i skipped the second half of the first chapter, which bearly mentioned george beyond the date of his birth.

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>>25310301
>Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence by John Ferling

>Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828 by Walter McDougall

>The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik

>Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction by Allen Guelzo

>Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 by Brenda Wineapple

>>25310317
This dude put more thought into Washington’s life than Washington did

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Paul Revere And The World He Lived In

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>>25310301

Trilogy of the West by Bernard DeVoto

https://www.goodreads.com/series/110484-trilogy-of-the-west

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This Vast Enterprise

Albion's Seed

>>25315047
overrated and full of errors

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>>25316176
Is picrel better?

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1812: The Navy's War

>>25310301
The Glory and the Dream

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>>25310301

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>>25310301

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This is from the book America Before 1787 by Jon Elster, who Nassim Taleb said was erudite/not-BSer.

>>25317868
Seconded. It's a very nostalgic and entertaining read about America from the 30s through the 70s.

>>25316486
never read it

>>25321236
Shucks...

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>>25310301
Much better than the awful musical.

Every American history book focuses on the pilgrims and the development of New England. Is there any title primarily about the settling of the south and the creation of the southern colonies?

>>25322489
Albion's Seed follows four settler populations, the Pilgrims, the Quakers, the Scots-Irish, and the Cavaliers who were like English Catholic nobility in the South.

>>25322501
Downloaded, thanks

>>25310301
> Shelby Foote >

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>The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War by David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1265639.The_Boisterous_Sea_of_Liberty

>>25316781
American maritime history is a pretty underrated topic. Nowadays we're overwhelming seen as a wide country of endless plains, but we started off as a lean coastal nation where pretty much everyone lived within walking distance of the sea.

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>>25310301
Skip Nathaniel Philbrick and read Rick Atkinson instead.

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>>25310301
>Drawing heavily from diaries, letters, and memoirs from American Plains settlers, historian Thomas Goodrich weaves a spellbinding tale of life and death on the prairie, told in the timeless words of the participants themselves.

Books about French and Spanish North America?

Are there any good history books on early america known for great prose? Like Carlyle.

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>>25324528
>American maritime history is a pretty underrated topic
Agreed.

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>>25326399
Francis Parkman and Henry Adams’s History of the United States.

>>25324528
in "in the eye of the hurricane", philbrick says that the americans used a map of costal currents made by an americam fisherman, which was publiclly available to the brits as well, though they never adopted it – he posists because they were too stuck up.
>>25325657
sounds kino. can you post an excerpt? during the french and indian war, washington stated (per douglas southall freeman) that only indians could beat indians could beat indians.
>>25312686
he also has one of robert e. lee, only four volumes. personally, that one doesn't interest me.

>>25310334
>Mayflower by Philbrick
It any good? Ive had it sitting on my shelf for a couple years

Howard zinn but unironically

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