| 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 |
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| 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 |