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38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End

10 best books like 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End (Scott W. Berg): Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, The Trial of Lizzie Borden, The Things She's Seen, Whale Talk, Rated, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
AuthorGretchen McCulloch
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.

Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
AuthorRick Atkinson
ISBN1627790438
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
AuthorTony Horwitz
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again...
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
AuthorCara Robertson
ISBN1501168371
When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August of 1892, the arrest of the couple’s daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known...
The Things She's Seen
AuthorAmbelin Kwaymullina
Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died.

Her dad is drowning in grief. He's also the only one who has been able to see and hear her since the accident. But now she's got a mystery to solve, a mystery that will hopefully remind her detective father that he is still alive, that...
Whale Talk
AuthorChris Crutcher
ISBN0440229383
There's bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don't have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. A group of misfits brought together by T. J. Jones (the J is redundant), the Cutter All Night Mermen struggle to find their places in a school...
Rated
AuthorMelissa Grey
Societies thrive on order, and the Rating System is the ultimate symbol of organized social mobility.

The higher it soars, the more valued you are. The lower it plummets, the harder you must work to improve yourself. For the students at the prestigious Maplethorpe Academy, every single thing...
Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
AuthorGraham Hancock
ISBN1932857400
Less than 50,000 years ago humans had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic change, described by scientists as 'the greatest riddle in human history', all the skills & qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully...
Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
AuthorGraham Hancock
ISBN1250045924
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled...
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
AuthorGraham Hancock
Listening Length: 17 hours and 16 minutes

The concluding volume of the Fingerprints of the Gods trilogy.

Could shattering secrets about the deep past of humanity await discovery in North America?

Until very recently there was almost universal agreement amongst scientists...
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West
AuthorJames Donovan
ISBN0316155780
In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public uproar, and those in positions of power promptly...
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