Category: History (Sorted by Author's last name)
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American
West (1996) - Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-) (Grade:A-)
 Gulag: A History (2003) - Anne Applebaum (-) (Grade:A+)
The Peopling of British North America : An Introduction (1986) - Bernard Bailyn (09/09/1922
-08/07/2020) (Grade:B-)
Arming America : The Origins of a National Gun Culture (2000) - Michael A. Bellesiles (
-) (Grade:F)
Taking Charge : The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 (1997) - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-) (Grade:B+)
Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair (1986) - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-) (Grade:A)
Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s (1998) - Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley (-) (Grade:C)
Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War (1999) - Mark Bowden (1951-) (Grade:A+)
Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards (2001) - Tyler Bridges (-) (Grade:B-)
The Greatest Generation (1999) - Tom Brokaw (-) (Grade:D+)
Almost History : Close Calls, Plan B's, and Twists of Fate in America's Past (2000) - Roger Bruns (-) (Grade:A)
One Summer: America, 1927 (2013) - Bill Bryson (12/08/1951-) (Grade:A)
Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning (2008) - Kathleen Burk (-) (Grade:A-)
The Third Reich : A New History (2000) - Michael Burleigh (-) (Grade:A)
Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism (2006) - Eric Burns (1947-) (Grade:A)
The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) - Herbert Butterfield (10/07/1900
-7/20/1979) (Grade:A)
Constantine's Sword :The Church and the Jews: A History (2000) - James Carroll (1943-) (Grade:F)
Flushed : How the Plumber Saved Civilization (2006) - W. Hodding Carter (1966-) (Grade:A)
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1998) - Iris Chang (-) (Grade:A)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples () - Winston S. Churchill (-) (Grade:A+)
Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution (2007) - David A. Clary (-) (Grade:A)
Silent Coup: The Removal of a President (1991) - Len Colodny (-) (Grade:C+)
Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life (2002) - Carlo D'Este (1936-) (Grade:A)
The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935) - George Dangerfield (10/28/1904
-12/27/1986) (Grade:A-)
TulipoMania: The Story Of The World's Most Coveted Flower & The Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (2000) - Mike Dash (-) (Grade:B)
Europe : A History (1996) - Norman Davies (06/08/1939
-) (Grade:A)
Mr. Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power, and Theatre on the Bounty (1992) - Greg Dening (-) (Grade:A-)
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1996) - Joseph J. Ellis (-) (Grade:A-)
Pox Americana : The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (2001) - Elizabeth A. Fenn (1959-) (Grade:A-)
The Pity of War : Explaining World War I (1998) - Niall Ferguson (-) (Grade:A+)
Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) (2004) - David Hackett Fischer (1935
-) (Grade:A+)
The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity (1997) - Richard Fletcher (03/28/1944-02/28/2005) (Grade:A+)
Who Owns History? : Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (2002) - Eric Foner (2/07/1943
-) (Grade:F)
Civil War () - Shelby Foote (11/17/1916
-6/27/2005) (Grade:A+)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) - Edward Gibbon (04/27/1737
-1794) (Grade:B)
Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1996) - Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (-) (Grade:A)
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (2009) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969
-) (Grade:A)
The Punic Wars (2000) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969
-) (Grade:A)
A Little History of the World (1936) - Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (03/30/1909
-11/03/2001) (Grade:A-)
No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front in World War II (1994) - Doris Kearns Goodwin (1/04/1943
-) (Grade:C+)
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine (2023) - S. C. Gwynne (1953-) (Grade:A)
The Bridge at No Gun Ri : A Hidden Chapter from the Korean War (2001) - Charles J. Hanley (-) (Grade:D)
The Soul of Battle : From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny (1999) - Victor Davis Hanson (-) (Grade:A+)
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States) (2008) - George C. Herring (-) (Grade:B+)
Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey (6/17/1914
-3/24/1993) (Grade:B)
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates () - Harry V. Jaffa (10/07/1918
-01/10/2015) (Grade:A)
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America (1994) - Paul E. Johnson (1942
-) (Grade:C)
Modern Times () - Paul Johnson (11/02/1928
-1/12/2023) (Grade:A+)
Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty (2016) - Dan Jones (07/27/1981
-) (Grade:A+)
Redefining Sovereignty (March 2006) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-) (Grade:A+)
The First World War (1998) - John Keegan (-) (Grade:B+)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987) - Paul Kennedy (6/17/1945
-) (Grade:C+)
Freedom from Fear : The United States, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States, Vol 9) (1999) - David M. Kennedy (-) (Grade:A)
Metropolis () - Philip Kerr (1956-) (Grade:A)
Who Really Won the Battle of Marathon?: A bold re-appraisal of one of history’s most famous battles (2020) - Constantinos Lagos (-) (Grade:A)
Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution (1988) - AJ Langguth (-) (Grade:B)
The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, A Life (2009) - David Lawday (1938-) (Grade:A-)
My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy (2001) - Wen Ho Lee (-) (Grade:F)
Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy (2002) - Andro Linklater (-) (Grade:A-)
Victory in Tripoli : How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation (2005) - Joshua E. London (-) (Grade:A)
Day of Infamy (1957) - Walter Lord (1917-) (Grade:A)
Five Days in London, May 1940 (1999) - John Lukacs (01/31/1924
-) (Grade:B)
June 1941: Hitler and Stalin (2006) - John Lukacs (01/31/1924
-) (Grade:B-)
Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (1841) - Charles MacKay (1814-1889) (Grade:A)
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997) - Pauline Maier (-) (Grade:B+)
One Drop of Blood : The American Misadventure of Race (2000) - Scott L. Malcomson (-) (Grade:B-)
Strange Victory : Hitler's Conquest of France (2000) - Ernest May (-) (Grade:B+)
The Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972) - David McCullough (7/07/1933
-8/07/2022) (Grade:A+)
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 (1997) - Walter McDougall (12/03/1946
-) (Grade:A)
The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism (2007) - George McKenna (-) (Grade:A+)
Big Chief Elizabeth : The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America (2000) - Giles Milton (1/15/1966
-) (Grade:A)
Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (2003) - James A. Morone (-) (Grade:C-)
Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (2006) - Mark Moyar (5/12/1971
-) (Grade:A+)
The City in History (1961) - Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) (Grade:D)
The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain (1995) - Benzion Netanyahu (3/25/1910
-4/30/2012) (Grade:A+)
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk (2000) - Jennifer Niven (-) (Grade:A)
The Oregon Trail (1847) - Francis Parkman (9/16/1823
-11/08/1893) (Grade:A)
Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon (1991) - Jim Paul (-) (Grade:B)
The Russian Revolution () - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-) (Grade:A+)
Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998) - Gerald Posner (-) (Grade:B)
The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory (1999) - Robert V. Remini (1921-) (Grade:B+)
Lenin's Tomb : The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (1993) - David Remnick (1958-) (Grade:A+)
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Bampton Lectures in America) (2008) - Jonathan Riley-Smith (06/27/1938-) (Grade:A+)
The Scalpel and the Butterfly : The War Between Animal Research and Animal Protection (2000) - Deborah Rudacille (-) (Grade:C+)
The Train to Crystal City : : FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II (2015) - Jan Jarboe Russell (-) (Grade:B+)
How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (1976) - Francis August Schaeffer (01/30/1912-1984) (Grade:A-)
A History of Britain, Volume II : The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (2001) - Simon Schama (1945-) (Grade:B+)
Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora (2001) - Ronald Segal (7/14/1932
-2/23/2008) (Grade:D)
The Fatal Environment : The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890 (1985) - Richard Slotkin (-) (Grade:B-)
Toward Rational Exuberance : The Evolution of Modern Stock Market (2001) - B. Mark Smith (-) (Grade:A)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1995) - Dava Sobel (-) (Grade:A-)
A Better War : The Unexamined Victories and the Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam (1999) - Lewis Sorley (1934-) (Grade:A)
Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I (2014) - Charles Spencer (05/20/1964-) (Grade:A+)
How the West Won : The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity (2014) - Rodney Stark (07/08/1934
-07/21/22) (Grade:A+)
What the Anti-Federalists Were For (1981) - Herbert J. Storing (1928
-1977) (Grade:A)
The Spartacus War (2009) - Barry Strauss (11/27/1957
-) (Grade:A+)
The Battle of Salamis : The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization (2004) - Barry Strauss (11/27/1957
-) (Grade:A+)
The Trojan War : A New History (2006) - Barry Strauss (11/27/1957
-) (Grade:A)
Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800 (2006) - Jeff Sypeck (-) (Grade:A)
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974) - Studs Terkel (5/16/1912
-10/31/2008) (Grade:C-)
Suez (1966) - Hugh Thomas (1931-) (Grade:B+)
The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1856) - Alexis De Tocqueville (7/29/1805
-4/16/1859) (Grade:B+)
The World and the West (1953) - Arnold J. Toynbee (04/14/1889-10/22/1975) (Grade:A+)
1900 (1982) - Rebecca West (1892-1983) (Grade:A-)
The Last Battle : The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War (2001) - Ralph Wetterhahn (-) (Grade:A)
Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia (2009) - Francis Wheen (01/22/1957-) (Grade:B-)
One of Us : Richard Nixon and the American Dream (1991) - Tom Wicker (-) (Grade:D)
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America (1994) - Sean Wilentz (-) (Grade:C)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (1992) - Garry Wills (5/22/1934
-) (Grade:C)
Five Cities that Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global History (2009) - Douglas Wilson (06/18/1953-) (Grade:C+)
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (1998) - Simon Winchester (-) (Grade:B+)
April 1865 : The Month that Saved America (2001) - Jay Winik (1957-) (Grade:A+)
The Right Stuff (1979) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931
-5/14/2018) (Grade:A+)
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004) - Gordon S. Wood (11/27/1933
-) (Grade:A)
The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1991) - Gordon S. Wood (11/27/1933
-) (Grade:A)
Daughter of China : A True Story of Love and Betrayal (1999) - Meihong Xu (1963-) (Grade:B)
Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam (2006) - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (09/15/1942-) (Grade:A)
Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint (2007) - Bill Yenne (-) (Grade:B)
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd (2002) - Richard Zacks (1955-) (Grade:A-)
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