EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
Colonial; Native American
Colin Gordon Calloway. The American Revolution in Indian Country.
David D. Hall. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment.
Robert V. Remini. Andrew Jackson and his Indian Wars.
Richard White. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region.
Revolution
John Ferling. A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic.
Robert A. Gross. The Minutemen and Their World.
Francis Jennings. The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire.
Jill Lepore. A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States.
David McCullough. John Adams.
Jack N. Rakove. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.
Ray Raphael. A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence.
Gordon S. Wood. The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
Alfred F. Young. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution.
Gender
Patricia Cline Cohen. The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard.
Foreign Affairs, The West
Robert J. Allison. The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World.
Robert W. Johannsen and Miguel A. González Quiroga, in Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.–Mexican War.
Susan Lee Johnson. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush.
Robert E. May. Manifest Destiny’s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America.
Anders Stephanson. Manifest Destiny.
Slavery, Reconstruction, Race
Eugene D. Genovese. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.
Stephen Kantrowitz. Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy.
Louis P. Masur. 1831, Year of Eclipse.
Edmund Sears Morgan. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia.
James Sidbury. Ploughshares Into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel’s Virginia, 1730–1810.
John Stauffer. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race.
Civil War
Iver Bernstein. The New York City Draft Riots.
R.J.M. Blackett. Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War.
Catherine Clinton. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars.
David Herbert Donald. Lincoln.
Wayne K. Durrill. War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion.
Michael Fellman. Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War.
Joseph T. Glatthaar. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers.
James M. McPherson. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.
James M. McPherson. What They Fought For, 1861–1865.
Mark E. Neely Jr. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America.
Charles Royster. The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans.
Atlantic World
Thomas Bender. Rethinking American History in a Global Age.
W. Jeffrey Bolster. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail.
Adam Hochschild. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
Paul Gilroy. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness.
C.L.R. James. The Black Jacobins: Touissaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.
Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra.
C. Vann Woodward. The Comparative Approach to American History.
Politics, the Media, Public Opinion
Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin. Rude Republic: Americans and their Politics in the Nineteenth Century.
Dale T. Knobel. Paddy and the Republic: Ethnicity and Nationality in Antebellum America.
Timothy Messer-Kruse. The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848–1876.
Jeffrey L. Pasley. “The Tyranny of Printers”: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic.
Paul Starr. The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications.