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- A History of the American People, Paul Johnson
- These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue
- A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
- The American Experiment, James Burns
- The Americans by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations (Volumes Two, Three and Four)
- Ways of War: American Military History from the Colonial Era to the Twenty-First Century by Matthew S. Muehlbauer and David J. Ulbrich
- Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States by Michael Lind
- An Economic History of the United States: From 1607 to the Present by Ronald Seavoy
- From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 by George C. Herring
- Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life by Roger Daniels
- A People’s History of the United States (Eight Volumes) by Page Smith
- Liberty Equality Power: A History of the United States (Two volumes) edited by various
- A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
- From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States by Priscilla Murolo, A. B. Chitty and Joe Sacco
- There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America by Philip Dray
- Labor in America: A History by Melvyn Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles
- Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement by Clayton Sinyai
- The American Supreme Court by Robert G. McCloskey and Sanford Levinson
- From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition: A History of Social Welfare in America by Walter I. Trattner
- American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIONS
- A Documentary History of the United States by Richard D. Heffner and Alexander Heffner
- American Labor: A Documentary Collection by Melvyn Dubofsky and Joseph A. McCartin
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PERIOD HISTORIES
- The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era By Douglas R. Egerton
- After Lincoln by A.J. Langguth
- The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
- By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 by Michael F. Holt
- Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884 by Mark Wahlgren Summers
- The Indian Frontier by Robert Utley
- The Last Indian War by Elliott West
- Mile-High Fever: Silver Mines, Boom Towns, and High Living on the Comstock Lode by Dennis Drabelle
- The Tycoons by Charles Morris
- The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America by Lawrence Goodwyn
- Populist Revolt: A History of the Farmers’ Alliance and the People’s Party by John D. Hicks
- The Search for Order, 1877-1920 by Robert H. Wiebe
- The Spanish War: An American Epic 1898 by G. J. A. O’Toole
- At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee
- Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson
- The Shaping of Modern America: 1877 – 1920 by Vincent P. De Santis
- The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
- Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs by David R. Roediger
- The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom by James Green
- American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow by Jerrold M. Packard
- The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 by Alan M. Kraut
- Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States by Eleanor Flexner and Ellen Fitzpatrick
- The Money Men by H.W. Brands
- American Colossus by H.W. Brands
- Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
- The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr
- The War Lovers by Evan Thomas
- 1920 by David Pietrusza
- Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen
- Since Yesterday: The 1930’s in America by Frederick L. Allen
- Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America’s Entry into World War I by Justus D. Doenecke
- The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
- Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz
- Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 by Joanne Meyerowitz
- Last Call by Daniel Okrent
- Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster
- Dancing In The Dark by Morris Dickstein
- My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 by Becky M. Nicolaides
- The New Deal by Michael Hiltzik
- No Ordinary Time by Doris Kerns Goodwin
- The Glory and the Dream by William Manchester
- Freedom’s Forge – by Arthur Herman
- Freedom From Fear by David Kennedy
- A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II – by Maury Klein
- The Rising Sun by John Toland
- Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II by Roger Daniels
- The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King – The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea by Walter Borneman
- American Empire by Joshua Freeman
- The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
- The Coldest Winter by David halberstam
- The Fifties by David Halberstam
- The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
- One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
- Vietnam by Stanley Karnow
- Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam by James Stuart Olson and Randy W. Roberts
- A Bright and Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement by Matthew Garcia
- The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s by David Farber
- An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Todd S. Purdum
- Stonewall: The Riots by by David Carter
- Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz
- The Seventies by Bruce Schulman
BIOGRAPHIES
- Mark Twain by Ron Powers
- The Forgotten Conservative: Rediscovering Grover Cleveland by John Pafford
- Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse
- Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America by Mr. Lyle W. Dorsett
- The Life and Ministry of William Booth: Founder of The Salvation Army by Roger J. Green
- Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
- The Dark Genius of Wall Street by Edward Renehan
- The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World by Randall E. Stross
- Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention by Charlotte Gray
- Titan by Ron Chernow
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
- Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- Woodrow Wilson by John Cooper
- FDR by Jean Edward Smith
- Eleanor: The Years Alone by Joseph P. Lash
- Truman by David McCullough
- Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Smith
- General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman – by Ed Cray
- George F. Kennan: An American Life By John Lewis Gaddis
- Walt Disney by Neal Gabler
- Becoming King by Troy Jackson
- The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel
- Nixon (3 volumes) by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Gerald R. Ford:An Honorable Life by James Cannon