1. A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America – Tony Horwitz
2. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War – Nathaniel Philbrick
3. American Colonies: The Settling of North America – Alan Taylor
4. Sweet Land of Liberty: Old Times in the Colonies – Charles Carleton Coffin
5. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England – William Cronon
6. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America – Russell Shorto
7. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience – Emerson W. Baker
8. White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America – Don Jordan
9. The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War – Fred Anderson
10. The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America – by Walter R. Borneman
11. Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution – David Preston
12. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin – H. W. Brands
13. American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 – Alan Taylor
14. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789 – Robert Middlekauff
15. Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence by John Ferling
16. The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire – Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy
17. 1776 – David McCullough
18. Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence – Joseph J. Ellis
19. Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution – by Nathaniel Philbrick
20. Washington’s Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge – Thomas Fleming
21. George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution – Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
22. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution – Nathaniel Philbrick
23. Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It – Larrie D. Ferreiro
24. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution – John Oller
25. A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens – Lawrence E. Babits
26. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas – John Buchanan
27. In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown – Nathaniel Philbrick
28. American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic – Joseph J. Ellis
29. His Excellency: George Washington – Joseph J. Ellis
30. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation – Joseph J. Ellis
31. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 – Joseph J. Ellis
32. The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution – David Stewart
33. Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 – Pauline Maier
34. The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of a Nation – Colin Galloway
35. Washington: A Life – Ron Chernow
36. His Excellency – Joseph Ellis
37. Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation – John Ferling
38. Washington’s Farewell:The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations – John Avalon
39. John Adams – David McCullough
40. Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson – Gordon S. Wood
41. A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of Nationalism – Carol Berkin
42. Adams v Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 – John Ferling
43. Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
