45 Best

American History Books

1

When We Left Cuba

2

Park Avenue Summer

3

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

4

Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror

5

Charged: Overzealous Prosecutors, the Quest for Mercy, and the Fight to Transform Criminal Justice in America

6

Courting Mr. Lincoln

7

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

8

The Mueller Report

9

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

10

Carter Reads the Newspaper

11

The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality

12

The Last Year of the War

13

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

14

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

15

The Beantown Girls

16

Trouble the Water

17

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

18

The Saturday Evening Girls Club

19

The Mueller Report

20

The Last Year of the War

21

Carnegie's Maid

22

American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt

23

Varina

24

American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt

25

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

26

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

27

The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

28

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

29

Sister of Mine

30

1776

31

John Adams

32

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

33

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

34

Alexander Hamilton

35

A People's History of the United States

36

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

37

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

38

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

39

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

40

Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

41

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

42

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

43

Battle Cry of Freedom

44

Washington: A Life