📚 United States History

From Colonial America through the modern era

Colonial Period to 1820

Affairs of Honor--National Politics in the New Republic Joanne Freeman
Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow
A. Lincoln Ronald C. White, Jr.
American Creation Joseph Ellis
American Emperor--Aaron Burr's Challenge to America David O. Stewart
American Republics--A Continental History of the US, 1783-1850 Alan Taylor
American Sphinx--The Character of Thomas Jefferson Joseph J. Ellis
Benjamin Franklin Walter Isaacson
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham
The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 Gordon S. Wood
Empire of Liberty--A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 Gordon S. Wood
The First American--The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin H.W. Brands
Founding Brothers--The Revolutionary Generation Joseph Ellis
His Excellency George Washington Joseph Ellis
The Failure of the Founding Fathers--Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy Bruce Ackerman
A Great Improvisation--Franklin, France and the Birth of America Stacy Schiff
The Hemingses of Monticello--An American Family Annette Gordon-Reed
The Island at the Center of the World--The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotton Colony that Shaped America Russell Shorto
James Madison Richard Brookhiser
Jefferson and Hamilton--The Rivalry that Forged a Nation John Ferling
John Adams David McCullough
Mayflower Nathaniel Philbrick
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams Joseph J. Ellis
Patriotic Treason-- John Brown and and the Soul of America Evan Carton
Patriots--The Men Who Started the American Revolution A.J. Langguth
The Quartet--Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 Joseph J. Ellis
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America Harvey Kaye
Thomas Jefferson--The Art of Power Jon Meacham
Union 1812--The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence A. J. Langguth
Washington's Crossing David Fischer
Young Patriots--The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan and the Revolution that Created the Const. Charles Cerami
Wedding of the Waters--The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation Peter L. Bernstein
1776 David McCullough

1820 Through WWII

Against All Odds--A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival In World War II Alex Kershaw
America's Great Debate--Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas and the Compromise That Preserved the Union Fergus M. Bordewich
American Lion--Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham
American Midnight--The Great War, A Violent Peac, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis Adam Hochschild
American Prometheus--The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
And There Was Light--Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle Jon Meacham
April 1865--The Month that Saved America Jay Winik
Battle Cry of Freedom--The Civil War Era James McPherson
The Big Burn--Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America Timothy Egan
The Bomber Mafia Malcolm Gladwell
The Bully Pulpit--Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism Doris Kearns Goodwin
Carnegie Peter Krass
A Country of Vast Design--James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent Robert W. Merry
A Crack in the Edge of the World--The Great California Earthquake of 1906 Simon Winchester
The Dawn of Innovation--The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. Morris
Dead Wake--The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Erik Larson
Destiny of the Repubic--A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President Candice Millard
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson
FDR-- The First Hundred Days Anthony J. Badger
Fire In the Sky--The Air War in the South Pacific Eric. M. Bergerud
Freedom's Forge Arthur Herman
The Glass Universe--How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars David Sobel
Grant Ron Chernow
Grant's Final Victory--Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year Charles Bracelen Flood
The Great Bridge--The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge David McCullough
The Great Dissent--How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind And Changed the History of Free Speech in America Thomas Healy
Henry Clay--Statesman for the Union Robert V. Remini
In the Kingdom of Ice--The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette Hampton Sides
The Johnstown Flood--The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating Disasters America Has Ever Known David McCullough
Lincoln's Melancholy Joshua Wolf Shenk
Lincoln, President-Elect--Abraham Lincoln and the Great Seccession Winter 1860-1861 Harold Holzer
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes
This Mighty Scourge--Perspectives on the Civil War James McPherson
Mornings on Horseback--The Story of an Extraordinary Family, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt David McCullough
Nature's Metropolis--Chicago and the Great West William Cronon
The Path Between the Seas The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 David McCullough
Reading the Man--A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Elizabeth Brown Pryor
The Rise of American Democracy--Jefferson to Lincoln Sean Wilentz
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris
Rise to Greatness--Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year David von Drehle
Team of Rivals--The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin
Theodore Rex Edmund Morris
Throes of Democracy--The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 Walter A. McDougall
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernow
To End All Wars--A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 Adam Hochschild
What Hath God Wrought-The Transformation of America, 1815-48 Daniel Walker Howe
Woodrow Wilson--A Biography John Milton Cooper, Jr.
The Worst Hard Time--Those Who Survived the Great American Dustbowl Timothy Egan
The Wright Brothers David McCullough
1961--The Civil War Awakening Adam Goodheart
1912 Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs--The Election That Changed the Country James Chace
1944 FDR and the Year that Changed History Jay Winik

Post WWII

The Age o Eisenhower--America and the World in the 1950 William I. Hitchcock
The Age of Reagan--A History 1974-2008 Sean Wilentz
American Cold War Strategy--Interpreting NSC 68 Ernest R. May
American Theocracy--The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century Kevin Phillips
At Canaan's Edge Taylor Branch
At the Center of the Storm--My Years at the CIA George Tenet
The Battle For History John Keegan
The Bay of Pigs Howard Jones
Berlin 1961--Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth Frederick Kempe
The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam
Beyond Repair--The Decline and Fall of the CIA Charles S. Faddis
Bobby Kennedy--The Making of a Liberal Icon Larry Tye
Bobby Kennedy--A Raging Spirit Chris Matthews
The Bomb--Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War Fred Kaplan
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and their Secret World War Stephen Kinzer
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years David Talbot
The Cold War John Lewis Gaddis
Colossus Niall Ferguson
Cronkite Douglas Brinkley
Dawn of the Code War--America's Battle Against Russia, China and the Rising Global Cyber Threat John P. Carlin
The Dead Hand--The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy David E. Hoffman
Dereliction of Duty--Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joints Chief of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam H.R. McMaster
Devil in the Grove--Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America Gilbert King
The Devil's Highway Luis Alberto Arrea
Eisenhower--The White House Years Jim Newton
An End to Evil--How to Win the War on Terror David Frum/Richard Perle
FDR's Funeral Train--A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance Robert Klara
The Fifties David Halberstam
Fighting Back--The War on Terrorism from Inside the the Bush White House Bill Sammon
The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy Jussi Hanhimaki
Flying Blind--The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing Peter Robison
For The Soul of Mankind: The US, The Soviet Union and the Cold War Melvyn P. Leffler
The General vs. The President--MacArthur and Truman on the Brink of Nuclear War H. W. Brands
The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw
The Hawk and the Dove--Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War Nicholas Thompson
Hidden Figures--The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Margot Lee Shetterly
Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance
How the World Ran Out of Nearly Everything Peter S. Goodman
The Imperial Presidency Arthur Schlesinger
In Retrospect--The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam Robert McNamara
Kissinger Walter Isaacson
Kissinger and Cyprus--A Study in Lawlessness Gene Rossides
LBJ Architect of American Ambition Randall B. Woods
Legacy of Ashes--The History of the CIA Tim Weiner
Lessons In Disaster--McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam Gordon M. Goldstein
The Long Gray Line Rick Atkinson
The Lost Peace--Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953 Robert Dallek
The Main Enemy--The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown With the KGB Milt Beardon/James Risen
They Marched Into Sunlight--War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 David Maraniss
Nixon and Kissinger Robert Dallek
Nixon and Mao Margaret Macmillan
One Minute to Midnight--Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro On the Brink of War Michael Dobbs
One Summer--America, 1927 Bill Bryson
The Politics of Truth Joseph Wilson
The Premonition--A Pandemic Story Michael Lewis
President Nixon Richard Reeves
Preventable--The Inside Story… Andy Slavitt
A Promised Land Barack Obama
Robert Kennedy and His Times Arthur Schlesinger
Ronald Reagan--The Triumph of Imagination Richard Reeves
Second Chance--Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower Zbigniew Brzezinski
Statecraft 2.0 Dennis Ross
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
Tear Down This Myth--How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future Will Bunch
Ten Days to D-Day David Stafford
Truman David McCullough
Vietnam--An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 Max Hastings
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 Robert Dallek
War in a Time of Peace--Bush, Clinton and the Generals David Haberstram
Wiseguys and the White House Eric Dezenhall
While America Aged Roger Lowenstein
The Years of Lyndon Johnson--Master of the Senate Robert A. Caro
The Years of Lyndon Johnson--The Passage of Power Robert A. Caro
9/11 Commission Report 9/11 Commission

Other

American Sketches--Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers and Heroes of a Hurricane Walter Isaacson
The Big Oyster--History on the Half Shell Mark Kurlansky
The Boys in the Boat--Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Daniel James Brown
Brave Companions--Portraits in History David McCullough
Caste--The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson
Churchill, Roosevelt & Company--Studies in Character and Startecraft Lewis E. Lehrman
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Martin Wolf
Einstein Walter Isaacson
Electrifying America--Social Meanings of a New Technology David E. Nye
The Escape Artist--The Man Who Broke out of Auschwitz Jonathan Freedland
How to Hide an Empire Daniel Immerwahr
The Innovators--How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Walter Isaacson
John von Neumann--The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More Norman Macrae
Just Mercy--A Story of Redemption and Mercy Bryan Stevenson
Leadership In Turbulent Times Doris K. Goodwin
Living Downtown--The History of Hotels in the United States Paul Groth
Ours Was the Shining Future David Leonhardt
Overthrow--America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq Stephen Kinzer
A People's History of the US Howard Zinn
Personal History Katharine Graham
A Reporter's Life Walter Cronkite
The Rise and Fall of American Productivity--The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War Robert J. Gordon
The Soul of America--The Battle for Our Better Angels Jon Meacham
The Supreme Court Jeffrey Rosen
These Truths--A History of the United States Jill Lepore
The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson
Why Lincoln Matters Mario Cuomo