History

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877

Eric Foner

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Frances FitzGerald

Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920

George F. Kennan

Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps

Anne Applebaum

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Garry Wills

Unworthy Republic: The dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian Territory

Claudio Saunt

William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

Alan Taylor

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Ned Blackhawk

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Ira Berlin

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

Leon F. Litwack

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White

Joseph Lelyveld

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham

The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

Gary J. Bass

Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution,

Tania Branigan

The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

Thomas W. Laqueur

Cuba: An American History

Ada Ferrer

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism In Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild

Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

David Remnick

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

William Cronon

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848

Daniel Walker Howe

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion, and Catastrophic Miscalculation

Scott Anderson

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

Louis Menand

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

Adam Hochschild

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History

Norman Mailer

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Eric Foner

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823

David Brion Davis

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Kelly Lytle Hernández

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald

Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

Richard Kluger

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956

Anne Applebaum

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Alex Ross

Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City

Bench Ansfield

A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution

Orlando Figes

Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

James F. Brooks

Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War

Margaret MacMillan

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-1968

Taylor Branch

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

Nicole Eustace

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

Fredrik Logevall