Settlement and Colonization

William M. Fowler          Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763

Mary Beth Norton           In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

David A. Price                Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

Eric B. Schultz              King Philip’s War: The History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict

Era of the American Revolution (1764-1783)

H.W. Brands                 The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

Joseph J. Ellis               American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Joseph J. Ellis               Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Joseph J. Ellis               His Excellency: George Washington

Joseph J. Ellis               Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

Thomas Fleming            Washington’s Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge

Walter Isaacson             Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Richard M. Ketchum      Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the Revolution

A. J. Langguth               Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution

David McCullough          1776

David McCullough          John Adams

Mary Beth Norton           Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800

Richard Norton Smith     Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation

Henry Wiencek              An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

Emerging New Nation, Jacksonian Democracy, Antebellum (1783-1860)

Stephen Ambrose          Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Walter R. Borneman       1812: The War that Forged a Nation

H.W. Brands                 The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

H.W. Brands                 Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times

Charles A. Cerami          Jefferson’s Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchase

Eric Foner                     Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War

Thomas Fleming            Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America

John Harper                   American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy

Paul C. Nagel                John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life

John Niven                     John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union

Merrill D. Peterson         The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun

Robert V. Remini           Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time

Robert V. Remini           Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union

Robert V. Remini           The Life of Andrew Jackson

David S. Reynolds          John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)

William J. Cooper           Jefferson Davis, American

Thomas DiLorenzo         The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

David Herbert Donald      Lincoln

Eric Foner                     Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

Shelby Foote                 Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863

Doris Kearns Goodwin    Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant           Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

James McPherson         Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg

Stephen B. Oates          With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

Geoffrey Perret              Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President

John J. Pullen                Joshua Chamberlain: A Hero’s Life and Legacy

James I. Robertson        Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend

Gene Smith                   Lee and Grant

Jeff Shaara                    Gods and Generals

Jeff Shaara                    The Last Full Measure

Michael Shaara              The Killer Angels

Emory M. Thomas         Robert E. Lee

Alice Rains Trulock        In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War

Jeffrey D. Wert               General Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial General

Garry Willis                   Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America

Gilded Age, Western Expansion, Becoming a World Power (1877-1914)

Kenneth D. Ackerman    Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of James A. Garfield

Stephen Ambrose          Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

Stephen Ambrose          Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869

Louise Barnett               Touched By Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer

H.W. Brands                 T.R.: The Last Romantic

Walter LaFeber              Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America

Walter LaFeber              The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective

Eric Larson                    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

David McCullough          The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

David McCullough          Mornings on Horseback: Theodore Roosevelt

David McCullough          The Johnstown Flood

David McCullough          The Path Between the Seas, The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

Edmund Morris              The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris              Theodore Rex

Nancy Grey Osterud      Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth Century New York

Lee Standiford               Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America

World War I, Progressive Era (1900-1919)

Lloyd Ambrosius            Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations

Lloyd Ambrosius            Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective

Eliot Asinof                    Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series

Thomas A. Bailey          The Lusitania Disaster: An Episode in Modern Warfare and Diplomacy

Gene Carney                 Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded

Edward Coffman The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I

John Milton Cooper        The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt

Richard Hofstadter         The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR

David M. Kennedy          Over Here: The First World War and American Society

Michael McGerr             A Fierce Discontent : The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

Joseph Persico              Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and Its Violent Climax

Gene Smith                   Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing

Twenties (1920-1929)

Frederick Lewis Allen     Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s

Edward Behr                  Prohibition: Thirteen Years that Changed America

Neil Baldwin                  Henry Ford and the Jews: Mass Production of Hate

Lynn Dumenil                The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s

John Kenneth Galbraith  The Great Crash 1929

John Kobler                   Arden Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Michael E. Parrish         Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression 1920-1941

Arthur M. Schlesinger     The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919-1933, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume I

Robert Sobel                 Coolidge: An American Enigma

Steven Watts                 The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century

Great Depression (1929-1941)

Conrad Black                 Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

Alan Brinkley                 Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression

David M. Kennedy          Freedom from Fear : The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

Robert S. McElvaine       The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941

Arthur M. Schlesinger     The Coming of the New Deal: 1933-1935, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume II

Arthur M. Schlesinger     The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume III

World War II Era (1941-1945)

Stephen Ambrose          Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen Ambrose          Citizen soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen Ambrose          D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II

Stephen Ambrose          The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Stephen Ambrose          The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II

Stephen Ambrose          The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-52s Over Germany, 1944-1945

Rick Atkinson                An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943

Thomas A. Bailey          Hitler Versus Roosevelt: The Undeclared Naval War

Michael Berenbaum       The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined

Omar Bradley                A Soldier’s Story

Tom Brokaw                  The Greatest Generation

Carlo D’Este                  Patton: A Genius for War

Dwight D. Eisenhower    Crusade in Europe

Peter Eisner                  The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen From the Nazis During World War II

Herbert Feis                  Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin: The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought

Martin Gilbert                 Churchill: A Life

Martin Gilbert                 The Holocaust : A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War

Martin Gilbert                 Auschwitz and the Allies: A Devastating Account of How the Allies Responded to the News of Hitler's Mass Murder

Daniel J. Goldhagen       Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

Doris Kearns Goodwin    No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

Peter Irons                    Justice at War: The Story of Japanese-American Internment Cases

Ian Kershaw                  Hitler: 1889-1936, Hubris

Ian Kershaw                  Hitler: 1936-1945, Nemesis

William Manchester       American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964

William Manchester       The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill Visions of Glory

David McCullough          Truman

Jean Medawar               Hitler’s Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled by the Nazi Regime

Christopher Moore          Fighting for America: Black Soldiers – The Unsung Heroes of World War II

Geoffrey Perrett             Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph

Geoffrey Perrett             Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur

Joseph Persico              Edward R. Murrow: An American Original

Joseph Persico              Nuremburg: Infamy on Trial

Joseph Persico              Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage

Max Wallace                 The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of the Third Reich