These history books were all gifts from family and friends for Christmas this past year. All of them were on our Amazon.com gift list, which I love to use for gift-giving (and gift-getting!).

One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement – Edited by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler

The Scotch Irish: A Social History by James G. Leyburn

Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto

The Year of Decision: 1846 by Bernard DeVoto

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry