Popular History Books

A True History of the United States

Daniel A. Sjursen

U.S. History
The British Are Coming

Rick Atkinson

U.S. History
The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

History
Gettysburg

Noah Andre Trudeau

U.S. History
1776

David McCullough

U.S. History
A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

U.S. History
Area 51

Annie Jacobsen

Military History
The Fate of the Day

Rick Atkinson

U.S. History
Bad Land

Jonathan Raban

U.S. History
Spies

Calder Walton

U.S. History
The Sisterhood

Liza Mundy

U.S. History
Gettysburg

Stephen W. Sears

U.S. History
The Beast in the Clouds

Nathalia Holt

History
Manhunt

James L. Swanson

U.S. History
The CIA Book Club

Charlie English

European History
South to America

Imani Perry

U.S. History
The Lost City of the Monkey God

Douglas Preston

History
The Gunfighters

Bryan Burrough

U.S. History
The Accidental President

A J Baime

U.S. History
Ancient Greece

DK

Ancient History
Murderland

Caroline Fraser

U.S. History
Tank

DK & Smithsonian Institution

Military History
A Terrible Glory

James Donovan

U.S. History
The Wide Wide Sea

Hampton Sides

History
The Histories

Herodotus, Tom Holland & Paul Cartledge

Ancient History
The Demon of Unrest

Erik Larson

U.S. History
Four Princes

John Julius Norwich

European History
Devil in the Grove

Gilbert King

U.S. History
Nuclear War

Annie Jacobsen

Military History
Black AF History

Michael Harriot

History
The American Revolution

DK & Smithsonian Institution

U.S. History
The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

U.S. History
Delta Force

Charlie A. Beckwith & Donald Knox

Military History
Ancient Rome

DK

Ancient History
American Moonshot

Douglas Brinkley

U.S. History
Pacific

Simon Winchester

History
Under This Roof

Paul Brandus

U.S. History
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix

History
The Pursuit of Happiness

Jeffrey Rosen

U.S. History
Israel

Daniel Gordis

Middle Eastern History
With the Old Breed

Eugene B. Sledge

Military History
Taking Midway

Martin Dugard

History
The World War I Book

DK

History
Book and Dagger

Elyse Graham

History
Confronting the Presidents

Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

U.S. History
A Fever in the Heartland

Timothy Egan

U.S. History
Proto

Laura Spinney

History
Nexus

Yuval Noah Harari

History
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William L. Shirer

European History
The Vineyard of Liberty, 1787–1863

James MacGregor Burns

U.S. History
Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

Robert D. Putnam

History
The Founding of Israel

Martin Connolly

History
The Splendid and the Vile

Erik Larson

History
Sons and Soldiers

Bruce Henderson

History
Red Platoon

Clinton Romesha

Military History
The Spy and the Traitor

Ben Macintyre

History
The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

U.S. History
History of North America Map by Map

DK

History
Neptune's Inferno

James D. Hornfischer

Military History
Hellhound on His Trail

Hampton Sides

History
Inventing a Nation

Gore Vidal

U.S. History
Great Cities

DK

History
Children of Radium

Joe Dunthorne

History
America, América

Greg Grandin

History of the Americas
The 1619 Project

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper, Ilena SIlverman & Jake Silverstein

U.S. History
Helmet for My Pillow

Robert Leckie

Military History
Origin Story

David Christian

World History
What We Knew

Eric A. Johnson & Karl-Heinz Reuband

European History
America's Constitution

Akhil Reed Amar

U.S. History
Bandit Country

Toby Harnden

European History
The Great Museum of the Sea

James P. Delgado

History
The Lessons of History

Will Durant

World History
Killing Kennedy

Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

U.S. History
The Rise of Germany, 1939–1941

James Holland

History
Empire of the Summer Moon

S. C. Gwynne

History of the Americas
Normal Women

Philippa Gregory

History
Black in Blues

Imani Perry

History
Black Wave

Kim Ghattas

Middle Eastern History
World History

Philip Parker

World History
Salt

Mark Kurlansky

History
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

Asian History
The Residence

Kate Andersen Brower

U.S. History
A New World Begins

Jeremy Popkin

European History
Killing Crazy Horse

Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

History of the Americas
When Crack Was King

Donovan X. Ramsey

History
Blind Man's Bluff

Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew & Annette Lawrence Drew

Military History
Ghost Soldiers

Hampton Sides

History
Those Angry Days

Lynne Olson

U.S. History
UFO

Garrett M. Graff

U.S. History
Brandywine

Michael C. Harris

U.S. History
Covert Radio Agents, 1939–1945

David Hebditch

Military History
Don Troiani's Campaign to Saratoga–1777

Eric Schnitzer & Don Troiani

U.S. History
Don't Know Much About History [30th Anniversary Edition]

Kenneth C. Davis

History
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition)

Jared Diamond

History
The World War II Book

DK

History
When the Clock Broke

John Ganz

U.S. History
A World Lit Only by Fire

William Manchester

European History
D-Day

Stephen E. Ambrose

History
The Plantagenets

Dan Jones

European History
Indianapolis

Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic

Military History

Daniel A. Sjursen

U.S. History

Rick Atkinson

U.S. History

Barbara W. Tuchman

History

Noah Andre Trudeau

U.S. History

David McCullough

U.S. History

Howard Zinn

U.S. History

Annie Jacobsen

Military History

Rick Atkinson

U.S. History

Jonathan Raban

U.S. History

Calder Walton

U.S. History

Liza Mundy

U.S. History

Stephen W. Sears

U.S. History

Nathalia Holt

History

James L. Swanson

U.S. History

Charlie English

European History

Imani Perry

U.S. History

Douglas Preston

History

Bryan Burrough

U.S. History

A J Baime

U.S. History

DK

Ancient History

Caroline Fraser

U.S. History

DK & Smithsonian Institution

Military History

James Donovan

U.S. History

Hampton Sides

History

Herodotus, Tom Holland & Paul Cartledge

Ancient History

Erik Larson

U.S. History

John Julius Norwich

European History

Gilbert King

U.S. History

Annie Jacobsen

Military History

Michael Harriot

History

DK & Smithsonian Institution

U.S. History

Erik Larson

U.S. History

Charlie A. Beckwith & Donald Knox

Military History

DK

Ancient History

Douglas Brinkley

U.S. History

Simon Winchester

History

Paul Brandus

U.S. History

Herbert P. Bix

History

Jeffrey Rosen

U.S. History

Daniel Gordis