Best American History Books
4. 
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
by:
Howard Zinn
4.08 avg rating — 259,684 ratings 5. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,679 ratings 
10. 
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by:
Joseph J. Ellis
3.95 avg rating — 46,969 ratings 11. 
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,329 ratings
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by:
Edmund Morris
4.23 avg rating — 59,123 ratings 
15. 
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest 4.44 avg rating — 136,009 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating — 72,718 ratings 17. 
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,163 ratings
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Mary Edwards Walker: America's Only Female Medal of Honor Recipient
by:
Ammar Habib
4.37 avg rating — 7,944 ratings 22. 
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
by:
Timothy Egan
4.06 avg rating — 60,119 ratings 23. 
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating — 93,178 ratings 
26. 
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
by:
James L. Swanson
4.16 avg rating — 34,157 ratings 
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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany 4.24 avg rating — 24,326 ratings
31. 
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.52 avg rating — 27,074 ratings 
33. 
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II 4.20 avg rating — 46,349 ratings
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.42 avg rating — 23,634 ratings 35. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,270 ratings 
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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.42 avg rating — 25,860 ratings 
42. 
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
by:
Taylor Branch
4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings 43. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,280 ratings 44. 
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by:
Joseph J. Ellis
3.94 avg rating — 28,832 ratings 
46. 
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by:
David McCullough
4.25 avg rating — 18,112 ratings 
50. 
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.29 avg rating — 22,175 ratings 
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 4.16 avg rating — 8,618 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 3.99 avg rating — 13,753 ratings
61. 
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating — 215,181 ratings 62. 
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,468 ratings
63. 
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
by:
H.W. Brands
4.11 avg rating — 22,670 ratings 
65. 
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by:
Neil Sheehan
4.24 avg rating — 12,399 ratings 
68. 
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by:
David McCullough
4.22 avg rating — 22,134 ratings 
70. 
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by:
John G. Neihardt
4.12 avg rating — 18,419 ratings 71. 
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.28 avg rating — 27,104 ratings 72. 
The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.40 avg rating — 19,288 ratings 73. 
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
by:
Larry Schweikart
4.11 avg rating — 3,841 ratings 
75. 
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
by:
Amity Shlaes
3.91 avg rating — 6,199 ratings 76. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings 77. 
Beads on a String-America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History
by:
Ey Wade
4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 78. 
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by:
Rick Perlstein
4.25 avg rating — 10,667 ratings 
80. 
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.36 avg rating — 15,511 ratings 
83. 
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by:
Marc Reisner
4.28 avg rating — 11,658 ratings 
85. 
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
by:
David M. Kennedy
4.20 avg rating — 5,367 ratings 86. 
With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
by:
Stephen B. Oates
4.27 avg rating — 8,620 ratings 87. 
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 4.06 avg rating — 1,983 ratings
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Collected Writings: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters
by:
Thomas Paine
4.26 avg rating — 1,722 ratings 91. 
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
by:
Hampton Sides
4.25 avg rating — 38,776 ratings 
95. 
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating — 6,648 ratings
96. 
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
by:
Eric Foner
4.21 avg rating — 6,119 ratings 
98. 
The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson & Abigail & John Adams 4.28 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
