# Looking for American History book

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-american-history-book/563153>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 6, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-american-history-book/563153 "2010-12-06T15:36:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-american-history-book/563153/41 "2010-12-08T22:59:45Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Perhaps we could table the discussions of Loewen or at least move them to another thread.

I don’t apologize for suggesting the book, but I do for continuing the debate on it. Hence I’ve stopped. 🙂

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**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-american-history-book/563153/42 "2013-04-28T05:28:39Z")

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Daniel Richter’s \<Facing East From Indian Country\> offers a narrative of eastern North America from contact to Indian Removal in the 1830s, framed from an Indigenous point of view.

Pekka Hamalainen’s \<Comanche Empire\> is an engaging and scholarly book that displays the complexity of European-Indian contact.

if you are interested in St. Augustine, the Spanish southeast and southwest,., the works of David J. Weber are a good introduction (\<The Spanish Frontier in North America\> balances the traditional focus we have on English colonization and settlement).

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**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-american-history-book/563153/43 "2013-04-28T05:38:47Z")

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I strongly recommend the books that make up the [Oxford History of the United States](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_History_of_the_United_States). I’ve read three of them and they’re well-written and well-researched.

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**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-american-history-book/563153/44 "2013-04-28T05:40:17Z")

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I didn’t realize the thread was two years old 😕 But …its about early American history…so it shouldn’t bother anyone!

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