American History

Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2005

How Abraham Lincoln brought his former political rivals into his cabinet and led a divided nation through civil war.

Charles C. Mann · 2005

The Americas before Columbus were far more populous and sophisticated than most of us were taught. Charles C. Mann explains why.

David McCullough · 2005

David McCullough follows Washington's ragged army through the single year that nearly lost, then saved, the American Revolution.

James M. McPherson · 1988

The classic one-volume history of the American Civil War era, from the road to secession through the end of the war.

S. C. Gwynne · 2010

The rise and fall of the Comanche, the most powerful tribe on the southern Plains, and of their last great leader, Quanah Parker.

David Grann · 2017

In 1920s Oklahoma, members of the oil-rich Osage Nation were being murdered. David Grann uncovers who killed them, and why.

Erik Larson · 2003

The 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the architect who built it and the murderer who used it as his hunting ground.

David McCullough · 1977

David McCullough's epic account of the decades-long struggle to cut a canal through Panama, from French failure to American triumph.

Isabel Wilkerson · 2010

Three lives tell the story of the millions of Black Americans who left the South for northern and western cities in the twentieth century.

David McCullough · 2015

Two bicycle makers from Dayton, Ohio, teach themselves to fly and change the world.

Stephen E. Ambrose · 1996

Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the expedition across the continent, told as a great American adventure.