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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
Jack E. Davis
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson
Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T. J. Stiles
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
Elizabeth A. Fenn
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Alan Taylor
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
Fredrik Logevall
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Eric Foner
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Liaquat Ahamed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed
What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848
Daniel Walker Howe
The Race Beat
Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
Polio: An American Story
David Oshinsky
Washington’s Crossing
David Hackett Fischer
A Nation Under Our Feet
Steven Hahn
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943
Rick Atkinson
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Louis Menand
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945
David M. Kennedy
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
Edward J. Larson
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Jack N. Rakove
William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
Alan Taylor
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Mark E. Neely, Jr.
A Midwife’s Tale
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines
Stanley Karnow
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson
The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876
Robert V. Bruce
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Bernard Bailyn
…The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
Walter A. McDougall
Prophets of Regulation
Thomas K. McCraw
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790
Rhys L. Isaac
Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
C. Vann Woodward
American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876
Lawrence A. Cremin
Been in the Storm So Long
Leon F. Litwack
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
Don E. Fehrenbacher
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861
David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)
Lamy of Santa Fe
Paul Horgan
Jefferson and His Time
Dumas Malone
The Americans: The Democratic Experience
Daniel J. Boorstin
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
Michael Kammen
Neither Black nor White
Carl N. Degler
Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
James MacGregor Burns
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Dean Acheson
Origins of the Fifth Amendment
Leonard W. Levy
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Bernard Bailyn
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
William H. Goetzmann
The Life of the Mind in America
Perry Miller
The Greenback Era
Irwin Unger
Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
Sumner Chilton Powell
Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878
Constance McLaughlin Green
The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766
Lawrence H. Gipson
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
Herbert Feis
In the Days of McKinley
Margaret Leech
The Republican Era: 1869–1901
Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
Banks and Politics in America
Bray Hammond
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920
George F. Kennan
The Age of Reform
Richard Hofstadter
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
Paul Horgan
A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton
The Era of Good Feelings
George Dangerfield
The Uprooted
Oscar Handlin
The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840
R. Carlyle Buley
Art and Life in America
Oliver W. Larkin
The Disruption of American Democracy
Roy Franklin Nichols
Across the Wide Missouri
Bernard DeVoto
Scientists Against Time
James Phinney Baxter III
The Age of Jackson
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Unfinished Business
Stephen Bonsal
The Growth of American Thought
Merle Curti
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
Esther Forbes
Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865
Margaret Leech
The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860
Marcus Lee Hansen
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
Carl Sandburg
A History of American Magazines
Frank Luther Mott
The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900
Paul Herman Buck
The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865
Van Wyck Brooks
A Constitutional History of the United States
Andrew C. McLaughlin
The Colonial Period of American History
Charles McLean Andrews
The People’s Choice
Herbert Agar
The Significance of Sections in American History
Frederick J. Turner
My Experiences in the World War
John J. Pershing
The Coming of the War, 1914
Bernadotte E. Schmitt
The War of Independence
Claude H. Van Tyne
The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865
Fred Albert Shannon
Main Currents in American Thought
Vernon Louis Parrington
Pinckney’s Treaty
Samuel Flagg Bemis
A History of the United States
Edward Channing
History of the American Frontier
Frederic L. Paxson
The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
Charles Howard McIlwain
The Supreme Court in United States History
Charles Warren
The Founding of New England
James Truslow Adams
The Victory at Sea
William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick
The War with Mexico
Justin H. Smith
A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
James Ford Rhodes
With Americans of Past and Present Days
Jean Jules Jusserand