DavidM.Potter, Theimpending crisis, 1848-1861(New York:Harper and Row, 1976)
George C.Rable, Fredericksburg!Fredericksburg!(Chapel Hill and London:University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
Brian Holden Reid, The origins of the American civil war(Harlow, Essex:Longman, 1996)
Charles Royster, The destructive war:William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans(1991.Reprint.New York:Rand om House, 1993)
Julie Saville, The work of reconstruction:from slave to wage laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870(1994.Paperback Reprint.New York and Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1996)
MarkSchantz, Awaitingtheheavenly country:the civilwarand America's culture of death(Ithaca, NY and London:Cornell University Press, 2008)
Harry S.Stout, Upon the altar of the nation:a moralhistory of the civilwar(New York:Penguin Books, 2006)
ElizabethR.Varon, Disunion!:the coming of the American civilwar, 1789-1859(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
Bell Irvin Wiley, The life of Johnny Reb:the common soldier of the Confederacy(1943.Reprint.Baton Rouge.Louisiana State University Press, 1989)
Bell Irvin Wiley, The life of Billy Yank:the common soldier of the Union(1952.Reprint.Baton Rouge:Louisiana State University Press, 1989)
<h4>The West</h4>
Stephen Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer:the parallel lives of two American warriors(New York:Doubleday, 1975)
Stephen E.Ambrose, Undaunted courage:Meriwether Lewis, ThomasJefferson, and the opening of the American west(New York:Simon＆Schuster, 1996)
Pekka H¨am¨al¨ainen, The Comanche empire(New Haven, CT:Yale University Press, 2008)
Patricia Nelson Limerick, Thelegacy of conquest:the unbrokenpastof the American west(New York and London:W.W.Norton and Company, 1987)
Dean L.May, Three frontiers:family, land , and society in the American west, 1850-1900(New York:Cambridge University Press, 1994)
William G.Robbins, Colony and empire:the capitalist transformation of the American west(Lawrence:University Press of Kansas, 1994)
Richard Slotkin, Fatal environment:the myth of the frontier in the age of industrialization, 1800-1890(New York:Atheneum Publishers, 1985)
Henry Nash Smith, Virgin land :the American west as symbol and myth(Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1950)
RichardWhite, “It's your misfortune and none of my own”:a newhistory of the American west(Norman:University of Oklahoma Press, 1991)
Donald Worster, Under western skies:nature and history in the American west(New York:Oxford University Press, 1992)
<h4>The Gilded Age/Progressive Era</h4>
Sven Beckert, The monied metropolis:New York City and the consolidation of the American bourgeoisie, 1850-1896(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Edward J.Blum, Reforging the white republic:race, religion, and American nationalism, 1865-1898(Baton Rouge:Louisiana State University Press, 2005)
John M.Cooper, Jr., Pivotaldecades:The United States, 1900-1920(New York:W.W.Norton and Co., 1990)
StevenJ.Diner, A very differentage:Americans of the progressive era(New York:Hill and Wang, 1998)
Judith N.McArthur, Creating the new woman:the rise of women's progressive culture in Texas, 1893-1918(Urbana and Chicago:University of Illinois Press, 1998)
Nell Irvin Painter, Stand ing atArmageddon:the United States, 1877-1919(New York:W.W.Norton and Co., 1987)
Stephen Skowronek, Building a new American state:the expansion of national administrative capacities, 1877-1920(New York and Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1982)
Robert Wiebe, The search for order, 1877-1920(New York:Hill and Wang, 1980)
<h4>America between the wars</h4>
Michael C.C.Adams, The best war ever:America and World War II(Baltimore:The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)
AnthonyJ.Badger, The New Deal:The Depression years, 1933-1940(Basingstoke:Macmillan, 1989)
John Morton Blum, V was for victory:politics and American culture in World War II(New York:Harcourt Brace and Company, 1976)
James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt:the lion and the fox(New York:Harcourt Brace and Company, 1956)
John Diggins, The proud decades:America in war and peace, 1941-1960(New York:W.W.Norton and Co., 1988)
David S.Foglesong, America's secret war against Bolshevism:U.S.intervention in the Russian civil war, 1917-1920(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
Ellis W.Hawley, The Great War and the search for a modern order:a history of the American People and their institutions, 1917-1933(New York:St Martin's Press, 1979)
David M.Kennedy, Overhere:the First World War and American society(New York:Oxford University Press, 1980)
David M.Kennedy, Freedom from fear:the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945.New ed.(New York:Oxford University Press, 2001)
William Leuchtenburg, Franklin D.Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940(New York:Harper and Row, 1963)
William Leuchtenburg, The perils of prosperity, 1914-32.2nd ed.(Chicago:The University of Chicago Press, 1993)
Michael E.Parrish, Anxious decades:America in prosperity and depression, 1920-1941(New York:W.W.Norton, 1992)
<h4>Cold War America</h4>
Stephen Ambrose, Nixon, 3 Vols:Vol.1, the education of a politician;Vol.2, the triumph of a politician, 1962-1972;Vol.3, ruin and recovery , 1973-1990
(New York:Simon＆Schuster, 1987, 1991)
Larry Berman, No peace, no honor:Nixon, Kissinger, and betrayal in Vietnam(New York:The Free Press, 2001)
Irving Bernstein, Promises kept:John F.Kennedy's new frontier(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1991)
John Morton Blum, Years of discord:American politics and society, 1961-1974(New York:W.W.Norton and Co., 1991)
Paul Boyer, By the bomb's early light:American thought and culture at the dawn of the atomic age(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1994)
Taylor Branch, Parting the waters:America in the King years, 1954-63(New York:Simon＆Schuster, 1988)
Taylor Branch, Pillar of fire:America in the King years, 1963-65(New York:Simon＆Schuster, 1998)
Carl M.Brauer, John F.Kennedy and the second reconstruction(New York:Columbia University Press, 1977)
Mary Charlotte Brennan, Turning rightin the Sixties:the conservative capture of the GOP(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
Thomas R.Brooks, Walls come tumbling down:a history of the civil rights movement, 1940-1970(Englewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice-Hall, 1974)
H.W.Brand s, The devil we knew:Americans and the Cold War(New York:Oxford, 1993)
David Caute, The great fear:the anti-communist purge under Truman and Eisenhower(New York:Simon and Schuster, 1978)
Robert J.Cook, Troubled commemoration:the American civil war centennial, 1961-1965(Baton Rouge:Louisiana State University Press, 2007)
Alastair Cooke, A generation on trial:U.S.A.v.Alger Hiss(New York:AlfredA.Knopf, 1951)
Robert Dallek, John F.Kennedy:an unfinished life.Rev.ed.(New York:Penguin, 2004)
Robert Dallek, Lyndon B.Johnson:portrait of a president(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2004)
Robert Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger:partners in power(New York:Harper Collins, 2007)
Gareth Davies, From opportunity to entitlement:the transformation and decline of Great Society liberalism(Lawrence:University Press of Kansas, 1996)
Robert A.Divine, Blowing on the wind:the nuclear test ban debate, 1954-1960(New York:Oxford University Press, 1978)
Robert A.Divine, The Sputnik challenge:Eisenhower's response to the Soviet satellite(New York:Oxford University Press, 1993)
Adam Fairclough, To redeem the soul of America:the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.(Athens:University of Georgia Press, 1987)
Lawrence Freedman, The evolution of nuclear strategy.2nded.(Basingstoke and London:Macmillan Press, 1989)
John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the origins of the Cold War(New York:Columbia University Press, 1972)
John Lewis Gaddis, We now know:rethinking Cold War history(Oxford and New York:Oxford University Press, 1997)
David J.Garrow, Bearing the cross:Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(New York:W.Morrow, 1986)
David Halberstam, Thefifties(New York:Rand om House, 1996)
Michael J.Heale, American anti communism:combating the enemy within, 1830-1970(Baltimore:The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990)
Michael J.Heale, McCarthy's Americans:red scare politics in state and nation, 1935-1965(London:Palgrave Macmillan, 1998)
Michael J.Heale, The sixties in America:history, politics and protest(Edinburgh:University of Edinburgh Press, 2001)
Seymour Hersch, The dark side of Camelot(New York:Harper Collins, 1998)
Andrew J.Huebner, The warrior image:soldiers in American culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam era(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
Arnold R.Isaacs, Vietnam shadows:the war, its ghosts, and it slegacy(Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Peace now!:American society and the ending of the Vietnam War, New Edition(New Haven, CT:Yale University Press, 2001)
Philip Jenkins, The Cold War athome:the redscare in Pennsylvania, 1945-1960(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
Zachary Karabell, Architects of intervention:the United States, the third world, and the Cold War, 1946-1962(Baton Rouge:Louisiana State University Press, 1999)
Gabriel Kolko, Anatomy of a war:Vietnam, the United States, and the modern historical experience(New York:Pantheon, 1985)
Mark Atwood Lawrence, Assuming the burden:Europe and the American commitment to war in Vietnam(Berkeley:University of California Press, 2005)
Guenter Lewy, America in Vietnam(New York:Oxford University Press, 1978)
Scott Lucas, Freedom's war:the American crusade againstthe Soviet Union(New York:New York University Press, 1999)
David Maraniss, They marched into sunlight:war and peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967(New York:Simon and Schuster 2005)
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward bound:American families in the coldwar era(New York:Basic Books, 1988)
Myra MacPherson, Long time passing:Vietnam and the haunted generation(Garden City, NJ:Doubleday, 1984)
AllenJ.Matusow, The unraveling of America:ahistory of liberalism in the 1960s(New York:Harper and Row, 1984)
Walter A.McDougall, The heavens and the earth:a political history of the space age(New York:Basic Books, 1985)
Lisa McGirr, Suburban warriors:the origins of the new American Right(Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press, 2001)
James T.Paterson, Grand expectations:The United States, 1945-1974.New ed.(New York:Oxford University Press, 1998)
Charles M.Payne, I've got the light of freedom:the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle(Berkeley:University of California Press, 1995)
Howell Raines, My soulis rested:movementdays in the Deep South remembered(New York:Putnam, 1977)
Ellen Schrecker, Many are the crimes:McCarthyism in America(Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press, 1998)
NeilSheehan, A bright shininglie:John Paul Vann and Americain Vietnam(New York:Rand om House, 1988)
Philip Taubman, Secret empire:Eisenhower, the CIA, and the hidden story of America's space espionage(New York:Simon and Schuster, 2004)
Martin Walker, The Cold War:a history(New York:Henry Holt and Co, 1993)
James H.Willbanks, The Tet of fensive:a concise history(New York:Columbia University Press, 2006)
Garry Wills, The Kennedy imprisonment:a meditation on power(Boston:Little, Brown and Co., 1985)
C.Vann Woodward, The strange career of Jim Crow(New York:Oxford University Press, 1978)
Daniel Yergin, Shattered peace:the origins of the Cold War and the national security state(New York:Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
<h4>Modern America/General</h4>
Stephen Ambrose, Rise to globalism:American foreign policy since 1938(New York:Penguin Books, 1997)
Adam J.Berinsky, In time of war:understand ing American public opinion from World War II to Iraq(Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Robert F.Berkhof er, The white man's Indian:images of the American Indian from Columbus to the present(New York:Knopf:Rand om House, 1978)
Jefferson Cowie, Stayin'Alive:the 1970s and the last days of the working class(New York:The New Press, 2010)
David Ekbladh, Thegreat American mission:modernization and the construction of an American world order(Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press, 2010)
Adam Fairclough, Better day coming:blacks and equality, 1890-2000.Reprint.(New York:Penguin Books, 2002)
Niall Ferguson, Colossus:the rise and fall of the American empire(London and New York:Penguin Books, 2004)
Gary Gerstle, American crucible:race and nation in the twentieth century(Princeton, NJ and Oxford:Princeton University Press, 2001)
Paula Giddings, When and where I enter:the impact of black women on race and sex in America(New York:Morrow, 1984)
Michael J.Heale, Twentieth-century America:politics and power in the United States(London:Arnold, 2004)
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, The FBI:a history(New Haven, CT and London:Yale University Press, 2007)
Linda K.Kerber, No constitutionalrightto be ladies:women and the obligations of citizenship(New York:Hill and Wang, 1998)
Michael Mann, Incoherent empire(London and New York:Verso, 2003)
James T.Patterson, Restless giant:the United States from Watergate to Bush vs.Gore.New ed.(New York:Oxford University Press, 2007)
Jonathan M.Schoenwald, A time for choosing:the rise of modern American conservatism(Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2003)
Michael S.Sherry, In the shadow of war:the United States since the 1930s(New Haven, CT:Yale University Press, 1997)