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Books like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
The best books like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West are Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown is about indigenous history, conquest, american west. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches
S. C. Gwynne · History
Empire of the Summer Moon, published in 2010, follows the rise of the Comanche empire on the southern Great Plains and the long, brutal conflict between the Comanches and the expanding United States.
Shares indigenous history and conquest with Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.
Read the summary → - Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred history read.
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- Long Walk to Freedom
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Nelson Mandela · Memoir
Nelson Mandela's autobiography traces his life from a rural Xhosa childhood in the Transkei to his release from prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years of incarceration, and ends with his election as South Africa's first democratically chosen president in 1994.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson · Memoir
Isabel Wilkerson's second book proposes a reframing of American racial hierarchy: rather than thinking of racism primarily as prejudice, she argues that the United States has operated as a caste society, with Black Americans at the bottom of a rigidly maintained hierarchy similar in its structure — though different in its specific mechanisms — to the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · History
Charles Mann's 1491 sets out to correct a widespread misconception: that the Americas before Columbus were a mostly empty wilderness populated by small, isolated bands of hunter-gatherers living in gentle harmony with an untouched nature.
Both dig into indigenous history.
Read the summary → - All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · History
All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.
Both dig into survival.
Read the summary → - Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert · History
Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton argues that cotton was not just the raw material of the Industrial Revolution but the commodity through which modern capitalism was invented.
Both dig into colonialism.
Read the summary → - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing · History
In 1914, Ernest Shackleton led twenty-seven men into the Weddell Sea on a ship called the Endurance with the goal of crossing Antarctica on foot.
Both dig into survival.
Read the summary → - Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
Hampton Sides · History
Ghost Soldiers tells the story of the January 1945 raid on the Cabanatuan prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines — a mission to rescue 513 American and Allied prisoners, survivors of the Bataan Death March, before the retreating Japanese army could execute them.
Both dig into survival.
Read the summary → - Gulag: A History
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Anne Applebaum · History
Anne Applebaum's Gulag is the first comprehensive English-language history of the Soviet forced labor camp system, drawing on KGB archives opened briefly after 1991, survivor memoirs, and interviews with former prisoners and guards.
Both dig into survival.
Read the summary → - In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Hampton Sides · History
In 1879, the USS Jeannette sailed from San Francisco into the Arctic under the command of Lieutenant George Washington De Long, on a mission to reach the North Pole.
Both dig into survival.
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Books like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West: quick answers
What are the best books like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West?
The best books like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown are Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches by S. C. Gwynne, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, such as indigenous history, conquest, american west.
What should I read after Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West?
A natural next read after Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West is Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches by S. C. Gwynne. Shares indigenous history and conquest with Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. Other strong choices are Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.
What books are similar to Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown?
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West centers on indigenous history, conquest, american west. Books with a similar feel include Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches by S. C. Gwynne, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
