| What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 | Daniel Walker Howe | Oxford University Press | 2007 | Early American History |
| 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed | Eric H. Cline | Princeton University Press | 2015 | Ancient History |
| 1775: A Good Year for Revolution | Kevin Phillips | Penguin Books | 2012 | War for Independence |
| 1861: The Civil War Awakening | Adam Goodheart | Vintage | 2011 | Civil War |
| 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire | Giusto Traina | Princeton University Press | 2011 | Roman Empire |
| A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America | James Horn | Basic Books | 2008 | Jamestown |
| A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence | Ray Raphael | The New Press | 2012 | American Revolution, Common People, War for Independence |
| A People's History of the United States | Howard Zinn | Harper Perennial | 2010 | U.S. Constitution, Government, American History, Tyranny |
| A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium | Chris Harman | Verso | 2008 | World History |
| A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868 | Anne Sarah Rubin | The University of North Carolina Press | 2005 | Civil War, Confederate Nationalism, Confederate State |
| A.D. 381: Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State | Charles Freeman | The Overlook Press | 2010 | Roman Empire, Christian History |
| After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War | Gregory P. Downs | Harvard University Press | 2015 | Civil War, Reconstruction |
| After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 | John Darwin | Bloomsbury Press | 2010 | Empire Building, Empires, Global Economic Powers |
| Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America | David Hackett Fischer | Oxford University Press, USA | 1989 | American Cultures, British Folkways |
| America's Hidden History | Kenneth C. Davis | HarperCollins | 2009 | |
| America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation | Kenneth C. Davis | HarperCollins | 2009 | American History, Hidden History |
| American Colonial History: Clashing Cultures and Faiths | Thomas S. Kidd | Yale University Press | 2016 | Colonial History, Religion and Conflict |
| American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World | David E. Stannard | Oxford University Press | 1993 | Native Americans, Genocide |
| American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America | Colin Woodard | Penguin Books | 2011 | Borderlanders, Deep South, Puritans, Regional Cultures |
| American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 | Alan Taylor | W. W. Norton & Company | 2016 | War for Independence |
| American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence | Pauline Maier | Vintage | 2012 | Declaration of Independence, Common Sense, Second Continental Congress |
| American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson | Joseph J. Ellis | Vintage | 1998 | Thomas Jefferson |
| An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | Beacon Press | 2014 | Genocide, Displacement, Settlement |
| An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America | Michael Witgen | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2011 | Indigenous Peoples |
| Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War | Charles B. Dew | University of Virginia Press | 2002 | Secession Commissioners, White Supremacy |
| Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father | Michael Signer | PublicAffairs | 2015 | James Madison |
| Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War | David Williams | The New Press | 2010 | Myth of a United Confederacy, Draft Resisters, Southern Unionists, Fugitive Slaves, Anti-Confederates |
| Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It | Larrie D. Ferreiro | Knopf | 2016 | War for Independence, Spain, France |
| Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution | Nathaniel Philbrick | Penguin Books | 2013 | Battle of Bunker Hill, Siege of Boston |
| Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character | Roger G. Kennedy | Oxford University Press | 2000 | Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Duel |
| Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and National Socialism | Derek Hastings | Oxford University Press | 2009 | Catholicism, Nazism, National Socialism, Beerhall Putsch |
| Champlain's Dream | David Hackett Fischer | Simon & Schuste | 2008 | Samuel de Champlain, Canada |
| Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War | Bruce Levine | Oxford University Press | 2005 | Emancipation of Slaves, Patrick Cleburne, Confederacy, Civil War |
| Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South | Stephanie McCurry | Harvard University Press | 2012 | Civil War, Confederacy |
| Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right | Ray Raphael | The New Press | 2013 | Bad History, Cultural Myths, U.S. Constitution |
| Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 | Fred Anderson | Vintage | 2007 | Seven Years' War, Empires |
| Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga | Jane C. Beck | University of Illinois Press | 2015 | Family History, Slavery, African-Americans |
| Dark and Bloody Ground: The American Revolution Along the Southern Frontier | Richard D. Blackmon | Westholme Publishing | 2012 | War for Independence, Cherokee, Shawnee, Southern Frontier |
| Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America | Garrett Epps | Henry Holt and Company | 2013 | 14th Amendment, U.S. Constitution, Civil Rights |
| Dunmore's New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America | James Corbett David | University of Virginia Press | 2013 | Lord Dunmore, Colonial Virginia, Dunmore’s War |
| Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 | Gordon S. Wood | Oxford University Press | 2009 | American Republic, War of 1812 |
| Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson | Joshua D. Rothman | University of Georgia Press | 2012 | Southern Expansionism, Southern Frontier |
| For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War | James M. McPherson | Oxford University Press | 1997 | Civil War |
| Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation | Joseph J. Ellis | Vintage | 2003 | U.S. Constitution, Making the Constitution |
| Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past | Ray Raphael | The New Press | 2014 | Cultural Myths, Bad History |
| Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913 | Gaines M. Foster | Oxford University Press | 1987 | Civil War, Reconstruction |
| God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution | Thomas S. Kidd | Basic Books | 2010 | American Revolution, Religion, War for Independence |
| Igniting the American Revolution: 1773-1775 | Derek W. Beck | Sourcebooks | 2015 | War for Independence |
| In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 | Mary Beth Norton | Vintage | 2007 | Salem Witch Trials, Witchcraft in New England |
| Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution | Kathleen DuVal | Random House | 2015 | Revolutionary Era, Marginalized Voices |
| Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution | Thomas P. Slaughter | Hill and Wang | 2014 | War for Independence, American Revolution |
| Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab | Steve Inskeep | Penguin Books | 2015 | Andrew Jackson, John Ross, Cherokee |
| Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation | Julie M. Fenster | Random House LLC | 2016 | Thomas Jefferson, Louisiana Purchase, Exploration, Mapping the Frontier |
| Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War | David C. Keehn | LSU Press | 2013 | Knights of the Golden Circle, Order of the Lone Star, Militarization, Secession, Southern Expansionism |
| Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States | Michael Lind | Harper | 2012 | Economics |
| Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong | James W. Loewen | Touchstone | 2007 | Bad History |
| Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Rev. Edition) | James W. Loewen | New Press | 2008 | Distorted History, Education, Lies, White Supremacy, Culture War |
| Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union | Daniel W. Crofts | The University of North Carolina Press | 2016 | Slavery, Emancipation |
| Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America | Garry Wills | Simon & Schuster | 2012 | Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln |
| Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present | John McKee Barr | LSU Press | 2014 | Abraham Lincoln, Hate |
| Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment | Burt Neuborne | The New Press | 2015 | Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution, First Amendment |
| Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War | Tony Horwitz | Henry Holt and Company | 2011 | John Brown, Harpers Ferry, Civil War |
| Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana | George Edward Milne | University of Georgia Press | 2015 | Lower Mississippi Valley, Natchez |
| Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic | Matthew Stewart | W.W. Norton & Company | 2014 | Nature's God |
| New World Faiths: Religion in Colonial America | Jon Butler | Oxford University Press | 2007 | Colonial Religion |
| No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States | Stephen Chambers | Verso | 2015 | Slavery, Illegal Slavery |
| Northern Men with Southern Loyalties: The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis | Michael Todd Landis | Cornell University Press | 2014 | Northern Democrats, Civil War, Slave Power |
| One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History | Peter Manseau | Little, Brown and Company | 2015 | Religion in America, Christian America |
| Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between The Vatican, The CIA, and The Mafia | Paul L. Williams | Prometheus Books | 2015 | CIA, Mafia, Vatican, Fight against Communism |
| Paul Revere's Ride | David Hackett Fischer | Oxford University Press | 1995 | Paul Revere, Minuemen, Colonial Militias, Concord, Lexington |
| Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment | Kevin Kenny | Oxford University Press | 2008 | Peaceable Kingdom, Pennsylvania, Paxton Boys, Conestoga Indians |
| Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 | Pauline Maier | Simon & Schuster | 2011 | Constitutional Convention, Ratification |
| Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 | Eric Foner | Harper | 2011 | Reconstruction, Slavery, Jim Crow |
| Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation | Alfred F. Young, Ray Raphael, Gary Nash (Editors) | Vintage | 2011 | Radical Thinkers, Revolutionary Ideals, Founding Fathers, Liberty |
| Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 | Nathaniel Philbrick | Penguin Books | 2004 | U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842 |
| Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification | David Waldstreicher | Hill and Wang | 2010 | Slavery, U.S. Constitution |
| Taming Democracy: "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution | Terry Bouton | Oxford University Press, USA | 2007 | American Revolution, U.S. Constitution, Democracy, Pennsylvania, War for Independence |
| Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History | James W. Loewen | Teachers College Press | 2009 | Cultural Myths, Bad History |
| The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction | Dan Sisson with Thom Hartmann | Berrett-Koehler Publishers | 2014 | Nature of Revolution, Stewardship of Power, Liberty, Danger of Factions, Tyranny |
| The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America | Bernard Bailyn | Vintage | 2012 | Settlement, MIgration, Colonization |
| The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War | Don H. Doyle | Basic Books | 2014 | International Affairs, Civil War |
| The Civil War as a Theological Crisis | Mark A. Noll | The University of North Carolina Press | 2006 | Civil War, Religion |
| The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies | Alan Taylor | Vintage | 2010 | War of 1812, Invasion of Canada, Loyalists, Patriots |
| The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution | Robert G. Parkinson | The University of North Carolina Press | 2016 | Race, Colonial Prejudices, Stereotypes, Popular Rights |
| The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause" | James W. Loewen | University Press of Mississippi | 2010 | Neo-Confederates, Slavery, Source Documents, State's Rights, The Lost Cause |
| The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America | Gerald Horne | NYU Press | 2014 | War for Independence |
| The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina | Manisha Sinha | The University of North Carolina Press | 2003 | South Carolina, Southern Separatism, White Liberty, Nullification, Secession, African Slave Trade, Civil War |
| The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-America | Kevin Phillips | Basic Books | 2008 | Anglo-America, English Civil War, American Revolution, Civil War |
| The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 | Gordon S. Wood | The University of North Carolina Press | 2011 | Revolutionary Era, Making the Constitution |
| The Debate on the Constitution Part One: Federalist and Antifederalists Speeches, Articles, & Letters During the Struggle over Ratification, September 1787 to February 1788 | Bernard Bailyn | The Library of America | 2012 | U.S. Constitution, Federalists, Ratification, Antifederalists |
| The Debate on the Constitution Part Two: Federalist and Antifederalists Speeches, Articles, & Letters During the Struggle over Ratification, January to August 1788 | Bernard Bailyn | The Library of America | 2012 | Antifederalists, U.S. Constitution, Federalists, Ratification |
| The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia | Ethan A. Schmidt | University Press of Colorad | 2015 | Bacon's Rebellion, Colonial Virginia, Indian Policy |
| The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy | Bruce Ackerman | Belknap Press | 2007 | Political Parties, Two Party System, Republicans, Federalists, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, Electoral College |
| The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South | Bruce Levine | Random House | 2013 | Civil War, Second American Revolution |
| The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord | Ray Raphael | The New Press | 2011 | Grassroots Activism, Revolution, War for Independence |
| The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government | Fergus M. Bordewich | Simon & Schuster | 2016 | U.S. Constitution, Constitutional Convention, Making the Constitution |
| The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America | Scott Weidensaul | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2012 | Frontier |
| The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America: A History in Documents | Matthew Harris, Thomas Kidd (Editors) | Oxford University Press | 2011 | Founding Fathers, Christian Nation |
| The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution | Michael J. Klarman | Oxford University Press | 2016 | U.S. Constitution, Constitutional Convention, Making the Constitution |
| The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi's Longest Civil War | Victoria E. Bynum | The University of North Carolina Press | 2016 | Free State of Jones, Civil War, Jones County MS, Dissenters |