Bibliography of American history

Last updated June 21, 2024

This is a bibliography of selected publications on the history of the United States.

Books

Agnew, Jean-Christophe; Rosenzweig, Roy, eds. (2006). A Companion to Post-1945 America.
Alden, John R. (1966). A history of the American Revolution. Knopf.
Atkinson, Rick (2019). The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 9781627790444.
Bailey, Thomas A. (1980). A Diplomatic History of the American People (10th ed.). Prentice-Hall. ISBN 9780132147262.
Boehm, Lisa Krissoff; Corey, Steven Hunt (2014). America's Urban History. Archived from the original on April 20, 2015.
Boyer, Paul, ed. (2001). The Oxford companion to United States history. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8.
Burns, Ken; Steisel, Susanna; Lee, Brian; Blistein, David (2022). Our America : a photographic history. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-385-35301-4. OCLC 1294921946.
Chambers, John Whiteclay, ed. (2000). The Oxford Companion to American Military History. ISBN 978-0-19-507198-6.
Chenault, Mark; Ahlstrom, Rick; Motsinger, Tom (1993). In the Shadow of South Mountain: The Pre-Classic Hohokam of 'La Ciudad de los Hornos', Part I and II.
Coffman, Edward M. (1998). The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I.
Presidential elections, 1789–1996. Congressional Quarterly. 1997. ISBN 9781568020655.
Cooper, John Milton (2001). Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521807869.
Corbett, P. Scott; Janssen, Volker; Lund, John M.; Pfannestiel, Todd; Waskiewicz, Sylvie; Vickery, Paul (June 26, 2020). "3.3 English settlements in America. The Chesapeake colonies: Virginia and Maryland. The rise of slavery in the Chesapeake Bay Colonies". U.S. history. OpenStax. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
Dangerfield, George (1963). The Era of Good Feelings: America Comes of Age in the Period of Monroe and Adams Between the War of 1812, and the Ascendancy of Jackson.
Day, A. Grove (1940). Coronado's Quest: The Discovery of the Southwestern States. Archived from the original on July 26, 2012.
Diner, Hasia, ed. (2010). Encyclopedia of American Women's History.
Evans, Sara M. (1997). Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. Free Press. ISBN 0029029902.
Fiege, Mark (2012). The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States.
Gaddis, John Lewis (1972). The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231122399.
Gaddis, John Lewis (1989). The Long Peace: Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War.
Gaddis, John Lewis (2005). The Cold War: A New History.
Gerber, David A. (2011). American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction.
Gerstle, Gary (2022). The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0197519646.
Goldfield, David, ed. (2006). Encyclopedia of American Urban History.
Goodman, Paul. The First American Party System. in Chambers, William Nisbet; Burnham, Walter Dean, eds. (1967). The American Party Systems: Stages of Political Development.
Gray, Edward G., ed. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution.
Greene, John Robert (1995). The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford.
Greene, Jack P. & Pole, J. R., eds. (2003). A Companion to the American Revolution (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 9781405116749.
Guelzo, Allen C. (2012). "Chapter 3–4". Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780199843282.
Guelzo, Allen C. (2006). Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America.
Hine, Robert V.; Faragher, John Mack (2000). The American West: A New Interpretive History. Yale University Press.
Hitchcock, William I. (2018). The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s. Simon & Schuster.
Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton. (2002). Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America.
Howe, Daniel Walker (2007). What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507894-7.
Hopkins, A. G. (2018). American Empire: A Global History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691177052.
Hornsby, Alton Jr. (2008). A Companion to African American History.
Jacobs, Jaap (2009). The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America (2nd ed.). Cornell University Press. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012.
Jensen, Richard J.; Davidann, Jon Thares; Sugital, Yoneyuki, eds. (2003). Trans-Pacific relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the twentieth century. Greenwood.
Johnson, Thomas H., ed. (1966). The Oxford companion to American history. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195005974.
Johnson, Paul (1999). A history of the American people (1st HarperPerennial ed.). HarperPerennial. ISBN 0060930349. OCLC 40984521.
Kammen, Michael G., ed. (1980). The Past before us: Contemporary historical writing in the United States. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801412240.
Kazin, Michael; et al., eds. (2011). The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400839469.
Kendi, Ibram X.; Blain, Keisha N., eds. (2021). Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019. New York: One World. ISBN 978-0-593-13404-7.
Kennedy, David M. (1999). Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 . Oxford History of the United States.
Kirkendall, Richard S. (1980). A Global Power: America Since the Age of Roosevelt (2nd ed.).
Kirkland, Edward C. (1960). A History Of American Economic Life (PDF) (3rd ed.).
Kurian, George T., ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of American Studies.
Lancaster, Bruce; Catton, Bruce; Fleming, Thomas (2004). The American Heritage History of the American Revolution.
Leuchtenburg, William E. (2015). The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199721108.
Loomis, Erik (2020). A History of America in Ten Strikes. The New Press. ISBN 9781620976272.
McHugh, Jess (2021). Americanon : an unexpected U.S. history in thirteen bestselling books. [New York]. ISBN 978-1-5247-4663-6. OCLC 1228226135.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
McPherson, James M. (2003). Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford History of the United States.
Middleton, Richard; Lombard, Anne (2011). Colonial America: A History to 1763. Wiley. ISBN 9781405190046.
Milkis, Sidney M.; Mileur, Jerome M., eds. (2002). The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism.
Miller, John C. (1960). The Federalist Era: 1789–1801. Harper & Brothers.
Milner, Clyde A.; O'Connor, Carol A.; Sandweiss, Martha A., eds. (1996). The Oxford History of the American West.
Morris, Charles R. (2017). A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929–1939. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781610395359.
Nugent, Walter (2009). Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction.
Ogawa, Dennis M.; Fox, Evarts C. Jr. (1991). Japanese Americans, from Relocation to Redress.
Patterson, James T. (1997). Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. Oxford History of the United States.
Patterson, James T. (2007). Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. Oxford History of the United States.
Paxson, Frederic Logan (1924). History of the American frontier, 1763–1893 (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 2, 2016.
Perry, Elisabeth Israels; Smith, Karen Manners, eds. (2006). The Gilded Age & Progressive Era: A Student Companion. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780195156706.
Pole, Jack P.; Pole, J.R. (2003). A Companion to the American Revolution.
Rable, George C. (2007). But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction.
Resch, John, ed. (2004). Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront.
Riley, Glenda (2001). Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History.
Roseboom, Eugene H. (1957). A history of presidential elections. Macmillan.
Savelle, Max (2005) [1948]. Seeds of Liberty: The Genesis of the American Mind. Kessinger Publishing. pp. 185–90. ISBN 9781419107078.
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr., ed. (2011). History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2008.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. (1922). New Viewpoints in American History. Macmillan.
Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, ed. (2014). A Companion to the U.S. Civil War. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781444351316.
Sjursen, Daniel (2021). A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism. Steerforth Press. ISBN 978-1586422530.
Slotten, Hugh Richard, ed. (2014). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology.
Stagg, J. C. A. (2012). The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent.
Stagg, J. C. A. (1983). Mr Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783–1830. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691047022.
Stanley, Peter W. (1974). A Nation in the Making: The Philippines and the United States, 1899–1921. pp. 269–272.
Taylor, Alan (2012). Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction.
Taylor, Alan (2002). American Colonies.
Taylor, Alan (2016). American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804. W. W. Norton. ISBN 9780393253870.
Thernstrom, Stephan, ed. (1980). Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. ISBN 9780674375123.
Thornton, Russell (1991). "The Demography of the Trail of Tears Period: A New Estimate of Cherokee Population Losses". In William L. Anderson (ed.). Cherokee Removal: Before and After.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Tooker E (1990). "The United States Constitution and the Iroquois League". In Clifton JA (ed.). The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policies. Transaction Publishers. pp. 107–128. ISBN 9781560007456 . Retrieved November 24, 2010.
van Dijk, Ruud; et al. (2013). Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Routledge. pp. 863–64. ISBN 9781135923112.
Vann Woodward, C. (1974). The Strange Career of Jim Crow (3rd ed.).
Sitkoff, Howard (2008). "Chapter 7". The Struggle for Black Equality (3rd ed.).
Vickers, Daniel, ed. (2006). A Companion to Colonial America.
Wilentz, Sean (2008). The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 . Harper. ISBN 9780060744809.
Wood, Gordon S. (2009). Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815. Oxford History of the United States. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195039146.
Zophy, Angela Howard, ed. (2000). Handbook of American Women's History (2nd ed.). ISBN 9780824087449.

Surveys

"Outline of American History – Chapter 1: Early America". usa.usembassy.de. Archived from the original on November 20, 2016. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
"Lesson Plan on "What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?"". Archived from the original on June 11, 2011.
Alexander, Ruth M.; Norton, Mary Beth (2006). Major Problems in American Women's History (4th ed.).
Beard, Charles A.; Beard, Mary Ritter; Jones, Wilfred (1927). The Rise of American civilization. Macmillan.
Carnes, Mark C.; Garraty, John A. (2015). The American Nation: A History of the United States (14th ed.). Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 9780205841424.
Divine, Robert A.; et al. (2012). America Past and Present (10th ed.). Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 9780205910083.
Foner, Eric (2017). Give Me Liberty! An American History (5th ed.). W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393614121.
Gilbert, Martin (2009). The Routledge Atlas of American History (6th ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9780415488389.
Hamby, Alonzo L. (2007). Outline of U.S. History. Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 9781600214578.
Henretta, James A. (2007). "History of Colonial America". Encarta Online Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009.
Kennedy, David M.; Cohen, Lizabeth; Bailey, Thomas A. (2002). The American Pageant: A History of the Republic (12th ed.). Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780618103492.
Norton, Mary Beth; et al. (2011). A People and a Nation, Volume I: to 1877 (9th ed.). Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780495916550.
Schweikart, Larry; Dougherty, Dave (2013). A Patriot's History of the Modern World, Vol. I: From America's Exceptional Ascent to the Atomic Bomb: 1898–1945; Vol. II: From the Cold War to the Age of Entitlement, 1945–2012.
Tindall, George B.; Shi, David E. (2012). America: A Narrative History (9th ed.).
Zinn, Howard (2003). A People's History of the United States. HarperPerennial Modern Classics. ISBN 9780060528423.

Primary sources

Commager, Henry Steele (1988). Cantor, Milton (ed.). Documents of American History Since 1898 (8th ed.).
Engel, Jeffrey A.; et al. (2014). America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror.
Commager, Henry Steele; Morris, Richard B., eds. (1958). The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six': The Story of the American Revolution as told by Participants.
Troy, Gil; Schlesinger, Arthur Jr., eds. (2011). History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2008.

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