Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee: How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America

The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

30 Days with St. Thérèse

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

Saints Preserved

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

Presidential Payola: The True Stories of Monetary Scandals in the Oval Office that Robbed Taxpayers to Grease Palms, Stuff Pockets, and Pay for Undue Influence from Teapot Dome to Halliburton

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

St. Peter's Bones: How the Relics of the First Pope Were Lost and Found . . . and Then Lost and Found Again

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History: How Genghis Khan's Mongols Almost Conquered the World

Twelve Years a Slave

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

Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq

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

The Buck Stops Here: The 28 Toughest Presidential Decisions and How They Changed History

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