Early Republic American History Reading List
Early American Republic Era Study Group Reading List
The books we will read are:
AMERICAN EARLY REPUBLIC GROUP READING LIST
- Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood (Completed)
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
(We will also be reading Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville and American Notes by Charles Dickens while reading this book and some others) - A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg
- A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States by Timothy J. Henderson
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
- The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Sellers
- The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution by Charles R. Morris
- Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700-1850 by Charles Beatty-Medina and Melissa Rinehart
- The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor
- Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron: The War of 1812 and the Forging of the American Navy by Ronald Utt
- The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government by Fergus M. Bordewich
- Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby
- Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
- Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South by Adam Rothman
- The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 by Lynn Hudson Parsons
- America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation by John Bicknell while we read this book)
- John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan
- Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands
- Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence by H.W. Brands
- The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by H. W. Brands
- Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850 by John R. van Van Atta
- The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation by Thomas Fleming
- John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court by R. Kent Newmyer
- Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 by Anne F. Hyde
- Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood
- Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
Some other books we will consider reading:
After we finish the first books on our reading list we will select a book from the list below.
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
- Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis
- America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837 by Alasdair Roberts
- The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
- Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest by Stacey M. Robertson
- Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America by Susan Schulten
- Slavery and the Making of America by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
- The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette
- Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 by David J. Libby
- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson
- Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by John Ferling
- Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby
- Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America by Kerry A. Trask
- Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War by James A. Ramage and Andrea S. Watkins
- Kentucke’s Frontiers by Craig Thompson Friend
- Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition by John R. Finger
- Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850 by Malcolm J. Rohrbough
- The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830 by R. Douglas Hurt
- The Wisconsin Frontier by Mark Wyman
- Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700-1850 by Charles Beatty-Medina and Melissa Rinehart
- Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803 by David Narrett
- Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785-1810 by Andrew McMichael
- Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Justice and Freedom by Thom Hatch
- A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation by Catherine Allgor
- America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837 by Alasdair Roberts
- John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit by James Traub
- Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War by A. J. Langguth
- Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas
- Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
- The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 by Lynn Hudson Parsons
- A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson by Patricia Brady
- Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man by Barton H. Barbour
- The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest by Alec R. Gilpin
- A Paradise of Blood: The Creek War of 1813–14 by Howard T. Weir
- Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
- Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America by Walter R. Borneman
- Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation by J.M. Opal
- A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America by Jon Kukla
- The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger
- Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
- 1812: The Navy’s War by George C. Daughan
- Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest by Stacey M. Robertson
- William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812 by David Curtis Skaggs
- Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
- The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture by Joshua Kendall
- The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
- John Tyler, the Accidental President by Edward P. Crapol
Big List of American Early Republic Books
- 1812 By David Nevin
- 1812: The Navy’s War By George C. Daughan
- A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson by Patricia Brady
- A Child of the Revolution: William Henry Harrison and His World , 1773-1798 by Hendrik Booraem
- A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent By Robert W. Merry
- A Crisis of Community: The Trials and Transformation of a New England Town, 1815-1848 by Mary Babson Fuhrer
- A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States by Timothy J. Henderson
- A Home in the Woods: Pioneer Life in Indiana by Howard Johnson
- A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific by Robert M. Utley
- A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 by Steven Hahn
- A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816 by Claudio Saunt
- A Paradise of Blood: The Creek War of 1813–14 by Howard T. Weir
- A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation by Catherine Allgor
- A Rage for Glory: The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur by James Tertius de Kay
- A Savage Empire: Trappers, Traders, Tribes, and the Wars That Made America by Alan Axelrod
- A Whig Embattled: The Presidency Under John Tyler by Robert J. Morgan
- A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg
- A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America by Jon Kukla
- Abigail Adams by Woody Holton
- Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
- Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by John Ferling
- Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803 by David Narrett
- Agent Of Destiny: The Life And Times Of General Winfield Scott by John Eisenhower
- Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers by Matthew J. Clavin
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation by John Bicknell while we read this book)
- America on the Brink: How the Struggle Over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic by Richard Buel
- America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops by Christine Sismondo
- America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837 by Alasdair Roberts
- America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln by Mark A. Noll
- American Agriculture: A Brief History by R Douglas Hurt
- American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State by Stephen Aron
- American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America by David O. Stewart
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House By Jon Meacham
- American Methodism: A Compact History by Russell E. Richey and Kenneth E. Rowe
- American Phoenix: John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the Exile that Saved American Independence by Jane Hampton Cook
- American Reformers, 1815-1860 by Ronald G. Walters
- American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists by John Wigger
- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
- American Transcendentalism: A History by Philip F. Gura
- Amid a Warring World: American Foreign Relations, 1775–1815 by Robert Smith
- Amish Society by John A. Hostetler
- An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America By Henry Wiencek
- An Introduction to Mennonite History: A Popular History of the Anabaptists and the Mennonites by C J Dyck
- Anabaptism In Outline: Selected Primary Sources by Walter Klaassen
- Andrew Jackson and the Creek War: Victory at the Horseshoe by James Wendell Holland
- Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands
- Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark
- Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785-1810 by Andrew McMichael
- Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation by J.M. Opal
- Baptists in America: A History by Thomas S. Kidd and Barry Hankins
- Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds
- Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America by Kerry A. Trask
- Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster
- Blood and Thunder The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides
- Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World by Christian Wolmar
- Brethren Society: The Cultural Transformation of a “Peculiar People” by Carl F. Bowman
- Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America by Michael Zakim
- Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks
- Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850 by Andrés Reséndez
- Church of the Brethren Yesterday and Today by Donald F. Durnbaugh and Carl Desportes Bowman
- Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike by Jared Orsi
- Civil Rights Since 1787 by Jonathan Birnbaum (Editor), Clarence Taylor (Editor)
- Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies By Alan Taylor
- Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life by Roger Daniels
- Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700-1850 by Charles Beatty-Medina (Editor), Melissa Rinehart (Editor)
- Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War by Edward E. Baptist
- Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World by Robbie Ethridge
- Creek Indian History: A Historical Narrative by George Stiggins and Virginia Pounds Brown
- Daniel Boone by John Mack Faragher
- Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time by Robert V. Remini
- Don’t Give Up the Ship!: Myths of the War of 1812 by Donald R. Hickey
- Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War by A. J. Langguth
- Edmund Randolph by John J Reardon
- Eighteen Minutes: The Battle of San Jacinto and the Texas Independence Campaign by Stephen L. Moore
- Emerson by Lawrence Buell
- Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson
- Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
- Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific’s Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867 by Ryan Tucker Jones
- Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic By Gordon S. Wood
- Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 by Anne F. Hyde
- Exiles in a Land of Liberty: Mormons in America, 1830-1846 by Kenneth H. Winn
- Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City by Craig D. Townsend
- Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg
- Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich by Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen
- First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
- For Honour’s Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace By Mark Zuehlke
- For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s by Ronald P. Formisano
- Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic by Steven M. Nolt
- Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood
- Frontier Illinois by James E. Davis
- Frontier Indiana by Reverend Andrew R. L. Cayton
- Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780-1825 by Andrew R. L. Cayton
- Frontier Texas: History of a Borderland to 1880 by Robert F. Pace and Donald S. Frazier
- Frontiers: A Short History of the American West by Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher
- Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
- Fruit of the Vine: A History of the Brethren, 1708-1995 by Donald F. Durnbaugh
- Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade by John R. Bockstoce
- Gallatin: America’s Swiss Founding Father by Nicholas Dungan
- General George Washington: A Military Life By Edward G. Lengel
- George Clinton: Master Builder of the Empire State by John Lee
- George Mifflin Dallas: Jacksonian Patrician by John M. Belohlavek
- George Washington: 4 Volume Set by James Thomas Flexner
- Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 by Max Grivno
- Gone for Soldiers By Jeff Shaara
- Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest by Stacey M. Robertson
- Henry Clay: The Essential American by David S. Heidler
- Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind by Robert D. Richardson Jr. and Barry Moser
- His Excellency: George Washington By Joseph J. Ellis
- Illinois: A History of the Land and Its People by Roger Biles
- Impatient Armies of the Poor: The Story of Collective Action of the Unemployed, 1808-1942 by Franklin Folsom
- Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians by Grant Foreman
- Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby
- Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World By David Brion Davis
- Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854 by Jonathan H. Earle
- Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep
- James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse by Sam W. Haynes
- James K. Polk: A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny by Thomas M. Leonard
- James Madison and the Making of America By Kevin R. C. Gutzman
- James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights By Richard Labunski
- James Madison By Richard Brookhiser
- James Madison, the South, and the Trans-Appalachian West, 1783–1803 by Jeffrey Allen Zemler
- James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity by Harry Ammon
- Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West by Dale L. Morgan
- Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man by Barton H. Barbour
- Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation by John Ferling
- Jefferson and His Time (Six Volumes) by Dumas Malone
- Jefferson’s Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men behind the Louisiana Purchase by Charles Cerami
- Jim Bridger: Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal
- John Adams (2vols) by Page Smith
- John Adams by David McCullough
- John Adams: A Life by John Ferling
- John C Calhoun: A Biography by Irving H. Bartlett
- John C. Calhoun: American Portrait By Margaret L. Coit
- John Jay: Founding Father by Walter Stahr
- John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court by R. Kent Newmyer
- John Marshall: Definer of a Nation by Jean Edward Smith
- John Quincy Adams By Harlow Giles Unger
- John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life By Paul C. Nagel
- John Quincy Adams: American Visionary By Fred Kaplan
- John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit by James Traub
- John Randolph of Roanoke by David Johnson
- John Tyler, the Accidental President by Edward P. Crapol
- John Tyler: Champion of the Old South by Oliver P. Chitwood
- Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
- Kentucke’s Frontiers by Craig Thompson Friend
- Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War by James A. Ramage and Andrea S. Watkins
- Lewis and Clark among the Indians by James P. Ronda
- Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America by Harry L. Watson
- Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier 1760-1820 by Alan Taylor
- Life in Prairie Land by Eliza Farnham
- Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War by Fred Kaplan
- Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion by Robert Morgan
- Lone Star Nation by H.W. Brands
- Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence by H.W. Brands
- Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic By William C. Davis
- Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America by Thomas A. Foster (Editor)
- Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas
- Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
- Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America by David O. Stewart
- Major Problems in the History of the American West by Clyde A. Milner II (Editor), Anne M. Butler (Editor), David Rich Lewis (Editor)
- Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America by Susan Schulten
- Marbury v. Madison : The Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review by William E. Nelson
- Martha Washington: An American Life by Patricia Brady
- Martin Van Buren : The Romantic Age of American Politics by John Niven and Katherine Speirs
- Martin Van Buren and the American Political System by Donald B. Cole
- Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics by Joel H. Silbey
- Martin Van Buren: The American Presidents Series by Ted Widmer
- Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America by Michael McDonnell
- Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War by John C. Pinheiro
- Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher
- Adams’s Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams’s Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan
- Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy by Robert M. Owens
- Polk’s Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War by Richard Bruce Winders
- President’: George Washington and the Making of the Nation’s Highest Office By Harlow Giles Unger
- Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery’s Frontier by Lea VanderVelde
- Native Memoirs from the War of 1812 by Carl Benn
- Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
- No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie
- Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot by Harlow Giles Unger
- Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America by J. Brent Morris
- Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America by Sean Patrick Adams
- Old Hickory’s War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire by David Stephen Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler
- Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time by Freeman Cleaves
- One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church by Richard Abanes
- Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Justice and Freedom by Thom Hatch
- Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
- Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 by Richard Newman and Patrick Rael
- Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
- Perilous Fight: America’s Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 by Stephen Budiansky
- Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski
- Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America by Walter R. Borneman
- Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870 by Dana Elizabeth Weiner
- Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans by Benjamin Heber Johnson
- Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History by Francis D. Cogliano
- Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic by Rosemarie Zagarri
- River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson
- Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese
- Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867 by Ilya Vinkovetsky
- Russians in Alaska: 1732-1867 by Lydia Black
- Sacred revolt: The Muskogees’ Struggle for a New World by Joel W Martin
- Santa Anna of Mexico by Will Fowler
- Sarah Childress Polk: A Biography of the Remarkable First Lady by John Bumgarner
- Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1845 (4 volumes) by Stephen L. Moore
- Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore by Seth Rockman
- Seat of Empire: The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas by Jeffrey Stuart Kerr
- Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850 by John R. van Van Atta
- Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron: The War of 1812 and the Forging of the American Navy by Ronald Utt
- Slaughter at Goliad: The Mexican Massacre of 400 Texas Volunteers by Jay A. Stout
- Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South by Adam Rothman
- Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau
- Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk by William Dusinberre
- Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century by Barbara Jeanne Fields
- Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 By David J. Libby
- Slavery and the Making of America by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
- So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848 by John S.D. Eisenhower
- So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848 by Will Bagley
- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson
- South Pass: Gateway to a Continent by Will Bagley
- Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom by Robert Gudmestad
- Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas by Professor Gregg Cantrell
- Storm Over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War By Joel H. Silbey
- Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie by John Mack Faragher
- Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia by Daina Berry
- Tennesseans at War, 1812–1815: Andrew Jackson, the Creek War, and the Battle of New Orleans by Tom Kanon
- Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition by John R. Finger
- Texans in Revolt: The Battle for San Antonio by Alwyn Barr
- Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835-1836 by Paul D. Lack
- Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution by Stephen L. Hardin
- The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick
- The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by H. W. Brands
- The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna’s Texas Campaign by Stephen Hardin
- The Alamo By Frank Thompson
- The Alamo By John Myers Myers
- The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette
- The American West: A New Interpretive History by Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher
- The Anabaptist Story by William R. Estep
- The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862 by Carol Sheriff
- The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World by Frank Lambert
- The Battle of New Orleans By Robert V. Remini
- The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 By Lynn Hudson Parson
- The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo–and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation by James Donovan
- The British Capture & Occupation of Downeast Maine 1814-1815/1818 by George F.W. Young
- The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 By Anthony S. Pitch
- The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic by Andrew R. L. Cayton
- The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents by Theda Perdue (Editor), Michael D. Green (Editor)
- The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor
- The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 by David A. Chang
- The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVoto
- The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution by Charles R. Morris
- The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch
- The Early American Republic, 1789-1829 by Paul E. Johnson
- The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
- The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America by James Wilson
- The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
- The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War by Michael F. Holt
- The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government by Fergus M. Bordewich
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
- The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture by Joshua Kendall
- The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy by Thomas K. McCraw
- The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier by Adam Jortner
- The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court by Cliff Sloan and David McKean
- The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation by Thomas Fleming
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
- The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr by H. W. Brands
- The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic by John Demos
- The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century by Clay McShane and Joel Tarr
- The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846 by R. Douglas Hurt
- The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832 by Alan Taylor
- The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness By Harlow Giles Unger
- The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor by Henry Montgomery
- The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians by Anthony F. C. Wallace
- The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis by Jessica M. Lepler
- The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 by Samuel Eliot Morison
- The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Sellers
- The Massacre at Sand Creek: Narrative Voices by Bruce Cutler
- The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico by David J. Weber
- The Miami Indians by Bert Anson
- The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America by Robert Pierce Forbes
- The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America by Jay Sexton
- The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830 by R. Douglas Hurt
- The Old Northwest: Pioneer Period, 1815-1840 (2 volumes) by R. Carlyle Buley
- The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations And The Formation Of Arkansas Society, 1819-1861 By Donald P. Mcneilly
- The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
- The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Tribes by Mary Stockwell
- The Political Culture of the American Whigs by Daniel Walker Howe
- The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South by Eugene D. Genovese
- The Presidencies of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler by Norma Lois Peterson
- The Presidency of James K. Polk by Paul H. Bergeron
- The Presidency of James Monroe by Noble Cunningham Jr.
- The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James
- The Republic in Peril: 1812 by Roger H. Brown
- The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar
- The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War by Michael F. Holt
- The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz
- The Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians by Angie Debo
- The Russian Orthodox Church of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands 1794-1912 by Viacheslav Vsevolodovich. Ivanov
- The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era by Richard P. McCormick
- The Secret War for Texas by Stuart Reid
- The Shawnees and the War for America by Colin Calloway
- The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812 By George C. Daughan
- The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870 by Hugh Thomas
- The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
- The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856 by William J. Cooper
- The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War by Bruce Levine
- The Texas War of Independence 1835-1836: From Outbreak to the Alamo to San Jacinto by Alan Huffines
- The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Martin Dugard
- The Transformation of Political Culture: Massachusetts Parties, 1790s-1840s by Ronald P. Formisano
- The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century Jürgen Osterhammel
- The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 by George R. Taylor
- The Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America by Michael Feldberg
- The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army by Colin G. Calloway
- The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest By Alec R. Gilpin
- The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict By Donald R Hickey
- The War of 1812: Writings from America’s Second War of Independence by Donald R. Hickey (Editor)
- The War With Mexico: The Classic History of the Mexican-American War by Justin H. Smith
- The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812 By Troy Bickham
- The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution by Thomas P. Slaughter
- The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty by William Hogeland
- The Wisconsin Frontier by Mark Wyman
- The Year of Dcision 1846 by Bernard DeVoto
- Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
- Thomas Jefferson by R. B. Bernstein
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
- Those who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England by Hal S. Barron
- Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis by William C. Davis
- Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California by Douglas Monroy
- To the Hartford Convention: The Federalists and the Origins of Party Politics in Massachusetts, 1789-1815 by James M., Banner
- Trailing Clouds of Glory: Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders by Felice Flanery Lewis
- Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850 3rd Edition by Malcolm J. Rohrbough
- Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence By A. J. Langguth
- United States Foreign Relations 1820-1860 by Paul A. Varg
- War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War by Brian DeLay
- Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
- Washington’s Circle: The Creation of the President by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler
- Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation by Peter L. Bernstein
- Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 by Sandra L. Myres
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
- William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country by David Curtis Skaggs
- William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812 by David Curtis Skaggs
- William Henry Harrison: The American Presidents Series by Gail Collins
- William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest by William Heath
- Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Glory by Timothy D. Johnson
- With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution by José Enrique de la Peña and Carmen Perry
- Women and the Texas Revolution by Mary L. Scheer (Editor)
- Women’s Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: by Kathryn Kish Sklar
- Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Matthew L. Harris (Editor), Jay H. Buckley (Editor)