19th-Century America

The Children's Blizzard

David Laskin

A Thread Across the Ocean

John Steele Gordon

1812

Walter R. Borneman

A Year in the South: 1865

Stephen V. Ash

April 1865

Jay Winik

Gettysburg

Noah Andre Trudeau

The Indifferent Stars Above

Daniel James Brown

To Hell on a Fast Horse

Mark Lee Gardner

Astoria

Peter Stark

John Quincy Adams

Fred Kaplan

Reconstruction Updated Edition

Eric Foner

A Short History of Reconstruction [updated Edition]

Eric Foner

Black Fortunes

Shomari Wills

Democracy in America and Two Essays on America

Alexis de Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick

The Poison Squad

Deborah Blum

The Writings of Thomas Smallwood

Thomas Smallwood, Scott Shane

The Republic for Which It Stands

Richard White, Noah Michael Levine

Pullman

stanley buder

The Alcoholic Republic

W.J. Rorabaugh, William J. Rorabaugh

Ambrose Bierce

Roy Morris Jr.

Battle Cry of Freedom

James M. McPherson

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

Kevin Kenny

A Slave in the White House

Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-Reed

Beyond Vanity

Elizabeth L. Block

The Evolution of a State, Or, Recollections of Old Texas Days

Noah Smithwick

Lone Star

T. R. Fehrenbach

This Hallowed Ground

Bruce Catton

Golden State

Michael Hiltzik

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

The Demon of Unrest

Erik Larson

What They Fought for 1861-1865

James M. McPherson

Crazy Horse and Custer

Stephen E. Ambrose

Thunder in the Mountains

Daniel J. Sharfstein

Sea Captains Wife

Martha Hodes

The Scarlet Sisters

Myra MacPherson

James Monroe

Tim McGrath

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

The Story of American Railroads

Stewart H. Holbrook

The Book That Changed America

Randall Fuller

Mark Twain

Ron Chernow