Over the past couple of years I have been reading a lot of books on US history. It started I guess in the summer of 2017 when I went to St. Louis for the eclipse and saw Cahokia and realized exactly how diverse this area in the middle of the country was in the 1700s (french,spanish, american, and a whole whack of different indian nations) and how moncultural it had become, essentially via ethnic cleansing. And then in 2018 when I went to Atlanta for a TFC match, dropped by Stone Mountain and realized America was way weirder than I had ever realized.
I have read a lot since then, particularly about the South (The Rising Tide, about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, and River of Dark Dreams, about the antebellum south, were two particularly good ones) and about American first nations and the history of contact and colonization (very different from Canada - and yet not, too). But I am always looking for more.
So, good OTF folks: what are your favourite books on American history? What would you recommend? Any period, any region - I'm up for any of it.
I have read a lot since then, particularly about the South (The Rising Tide, about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, and River of Dark Dreams, about the antebellum south, were two particularly good ones) and about American first nations and the history of contact and colonization (very different from Canada - and yet not, too). But I am always looking for more.
So, good OTF folks: what are your favourite books on American history? What would you recommend? Any period, any region - I'm up for any of it.
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