American History: the Index

Across the Bering:  Native America

• Twilight of the Mammoths,  Paul Martin
• The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America, James Wilson
• Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade: Peopling the Americas, Brian Fagan
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann

The Age of Discovery and Colonization

• American Colonies,  Alan Taylor
• The Americans: the Colonial Experience, Daniel Boorstin
• Tobacco:  A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant TSeduced Civilization, Iain Gately
• Everyday Life in Early America, David Freeman Hawke

The American Revolution

• The Birth of the United States, Isaac Asimov
• The Cost of Liberty: the Life of John Dickinson, William Murchinson
• Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation, Joseph Ellis
• Chainbreaker's War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution, Jeanne Adler
• 1776, David McCullough
• A People's History of the American Revolution,  Ray Ralphael
• American Cicero: the Life of Charles Carroll, Brad Birzer
• His Excellency: George Washington, Joseph Ellis
• John Adams, David McCullough
• American Sphinx: the Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Ellis

Early American Republic

• The First Congress: How a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government, Marcus Bordewich
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies, Joseph Ellis
• Founding Rivals: Madison vs Monroe, Chris DeRose
• Alexander Hamilton, Rob Chernow
• The Artificial River: the Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, Carol Sheriff

Sectional Division and Civil War

• Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation, John Hope Franklin
• Look Away!  A History of the Confederate States of America, William C. Davis
• Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War, David Williams
• A People's History of the Civil War, David Williams
• The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama,  Kenneth Noe
• The Most Glorious Fourth, Duane Schultz
• The South Since the War,  Sidney Andrews

Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

• The Golden Door, Isaac Asimov
• Stagecoach: Wells-Fargo and the American West, Phillip Fradkin
• Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America, Ann Norton
• The Great Railroad Revolution, Christian Wolmar
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow, C.Van Woodward
• The Spanish-American War, Albert Marrin
• The Gangs of New York, Herbert Ashbury

Early Modern

• Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition in America, Daniel Okrent
• Disaster 1906: The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Edward. F. Dolan

American Zenith

• A Man on the Moon, Neil Chakin

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Constitutional History

• Securing Democracy: Why We Have an Electoral College, Gary Gregg II
• The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, Joseph Ellis
• The Cult of the Presidency, Gene Healy
• Nullification: Resisting Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, Tom Woods

Ethnographies

• The Scotch-Irish: A Social History, James Leyburn
• Dixie's Forgotten People: the South's Poor Whites, Wayne Flynt
• The Redneck Manifesto, Jim Goad
• Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites, Wayne Flynt

Intellectual and Social Movements

• Ain't My America: the Long and Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism, Bill Kauffman
• Selma 1965: The March that Changed America, Chuck Fager

Social History

• More Work for Mother: The Ironies of American Housework, Ruth Cowan
• A Consumer's Republic, Lizbeth Cohen
• Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Kenneth Jackson
• Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market, Susan Strasser
• Never Done: A Social History of American Housework, Susan Strasser
• Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America, Laura Shapiro
• The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler

Surveys

• A Renegade History of the United States, Thaddaeus Russell
• A People' History of American Empire, Howard Zinn