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Reading List Titles Beginning with the Letters "B", "C", and "D"

Band of giants : the amateur soldiers who won America's independence 
Barbecue : the history of an American institution 
Before and after Jamestown : Virginia's Powhatans and their predecessors 
Before and after Jamestown : Virginia's Powhatans and their predecessors 
Before the Revolution : America's ancient pasts 
Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father 
Between two worlds : how the English became Americans 
Beyond the Revolution : a history of American thought from Paine to pragmatism 
Black Indians : a hidden heritage 
Black soldiers in blue : African American troops in the Civil War era 
Bond of union : building the Erie Canal and the American empire 
Born fighting : how the Scots-Irish shaped America 
Bound to the fire : how Virginia's enslaved cooks helped invent American cuisine 
Boundaries : how the Mason-Dixon line settled a family feud & divided a nation 
But there was no peace : the role of violence in the politics of reconstruction 
Cahokia : ancient America's great city on the Mississippi 
Capital dames : the Civil War and the women of Washington, 1848-1868 
Capitol men : the epic story of Reconstruction through the lives of the first Black congressmen 
Captain John Smith : Jamestown and the birth of the American dream 
Captains contentious : the dysfunctional sons of the brine 
Captives & cousins : slavery, kinship, and community in the Southwest borderlands 
Carpetbaggers, cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan : exposing the invisible empire during Reconstruction 
Causes won, lost, and forgotten : how Hollywood & popular art shape what we know about the Civil War 
City of sedition : the history of New York City during the Civil War 
Civil War & revolution on the Rio Grande frontier : a narrative and photographic history 
Clash of extremes : the economic origins of the Civil War 
Climbing up to glory : a short history of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction 
Closer to freedom : enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South 
Clouds of glory : the life and legend of Robert E. Lee 
Colonial America from settlement to the Revolution 
Colonial horrors : Sleepy Hollow and beyond 
Congress and the emergence of sectionalism : from the Missouri Compromise to the age of Jackson 
Contesting slavery : the politics of bondage and freedom in the new American nation 
Copperheads : the rise and fall of Lincoln's opponents in the North 
Creole : the history and legacy of Louisiana's free people of color 
Crisis in the Southwest : the United States, Mexico, and the struggle over Texas
David Crockett : the Lion of the West 
David Ruggles : a radical Black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City 
Death or liberty : African Americans and revolutionary America 
Defiant brides : the untold story of two revolutionary-era women and the radical men they married 
Deliver us from evil : the slavery question in the old South 
Denmark Vesey's garden : slavery and memory in the cradle of the Confederacy
Desperate sons : Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the secret band of radicals who led the colonies to war 
Devil's gate : Brigham Young and the great Mormon handcart tragedy 
Disunion! : the coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 
Dred Scott and the politics of slavery 
Dred Scott v. Sandford : slavery and freedom before the American civil war 
Duel with the devil : the true story of how Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr teamed up to take on America's first sensational murder mystery