The 20 Best Books About American History

by History Hustle
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20 books
The books on this list are considered some of the most essential and best books on American history.
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See the source list and commentary at historyhustle.com

A People's History of the United States

1492-Present
Howard Zinn, 2003

1776

America and Britain at War
David McCullough, 2013

Empire of the Summer Moon

Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
S. C. Gwynne, 2010

Founding Brothers

The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis, 2003

Team of Rivals

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2005

No Ordinary Time

Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2013

Stamped from the Beginning

The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi, 2016

The Warmth of Other Suns

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson, 2010

Battle Cry of Freedom

The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson, 2003

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown, 2009

The Bully Pulpit

Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2013

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

Frederick Douglass, 2016

The Guns of August

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, 2004

1491

New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann, 2006

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Stephen E. Ambrose, 1997

John Adams

David McCullough, 2001

Destiny of the Republic

A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard, 2011

Blood and Thunder

An Epic of the American West
Hampton Sides, 2007

Truman

David McCullough, 2003

Mayflower

A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Nathaniel Philbrick, 2006