John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

Walt Whitman

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America

Twelve Years a Slave

Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

John Adams

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: Volumes One and Two

The Flags of the Confederacy

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War