American History: A Very Short Introduction by Paul S. Boyer
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
1776 by David McCullough
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution by Eric Foner
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro