The story of American freedom by Eric Foner

A people's history of the United States by Howard Zinn

The contours of American history by William Appleman Williams

A different mirror : a history of multicultural America by Ronald T. Takaki

Forced Founders : Indians, debtors, slaves, and the making of the American Revolution in Virginia by Woody Holton

The radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

Founding Brothers: the revolutionary generation by Joseph J. Ellis

American Colonies by Alan Taylor

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

This Republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

Battle cry of freedom: the Civil War era by James M. McPherson

Team of rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Women, race and class by Angela Y. Davis

Born for liberty: a history of women in America by Sara M. Evans

Women of the Republic: intellect and ideology in Revolutionary America by Linda K. Kerber

Votes for women: the struggle for suffrage revisited by Jean H. Baker (editor)

No turning back: the history of feminism and the future of women by Estelle B. Freedman

Struggle for Black equality, 1954-92 by Harvard Sitkoff

The new Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Devil in the grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America by Gilbert King

Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

Stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

An indigenous peoples' history of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

American Holocaust: the conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard

Trail of Tears: the rise and fall of the Cherokee nation by John Ehle

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

A queer history of the United States by Michael Bronski

Out for good: the struggle to build a gay rights movement in America by Dudley Clendinen ; Adam Nagourney

Queer (in)justice : the criminalization of LGBT people in the United States by Joey Mogul et al

Hidden from history: reclaiming the gay and lesbian past by Martin B. Duberman et al (Editors)

Queer America: a people's GLBT history of the United States by Vicki L. Eaklor