American History

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

By S.C. Gwynne

Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

By Hampton Sides

Democracy in America

By Alexis de Tocqueville, Sanford Kessler, Stephen D. Grant

On the Freedom Side: How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History

By Wesley C. Hogan

Witness

By Whittaker Chambers

Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry

By Jossianna Arroyo

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Deep Undercover

By Jack Barsky

Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941

By Michael E. Parrish

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

John F Kennedy: An Unfinished Life

By Dallek, Robert

The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia

By Mike Dash

The USA (Horrible Histories Special)

By Deary, Terry, Brown, Martin

The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

By Smith, Jean Kennedy

Reinhold Niebuhr and His Circle of Influence

By Daniel F. Rice

Twelve Years a Slave (film tie-in) (Penguin classics)

By Northup, Solomon

Raul Castro and Cuba: A Military Story

By Hal Klepak

A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906

By Winchester, Simon

Body Of Secrets

By James Bamford

Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography

By Jeffrey Meyers

Cape Cod

By Henry David Thoreau, Paul Theroux

American Gangster: And Other Tales of New York

By Jacobson, Mark

Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy

By Eric Foner, Steven Hahn

One Summer: America 1927 (Bryson)

By Bryson, Bill

Long Balls, No Strikes: What Baseball Must Do to Keep the Good Times Rolling

By Morgan, Joe

Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror

By Clarke, Richard A.