Below you can find an exhaustive list of literary works on American History in my collection. 🇺🇸🦅🗽
I have made an attempt to organize the works by subject. Books I have read are indicated with a check mark ✔️.
George Washington
- His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis ✔️
- George Washington’s Surprise Attack by Phillip Thomas Tucker
- George Washington: The Forge of Experience, 1732-1775 by James Thomas Flexner
- George Washington in the American Revolution, 1775-1783 by James Thomas Flexner
- George Washington and the New Nation, 1783-1793 by James Thomas Flexner
- George Washington: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799 by James Thomas Flexner
- Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
- To Try Men’s Souls by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen
- The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer, and Josh Mensch
- “Mr. President”: George Washington and the Making of the Nation’s Highest Office by Harlow Giles Unger
- George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade, and Don Yaeger
- The Genius of George Washington by Edmund S. Morgan
- George Washington: The Founding Father by Paul Johnson
- Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation by Richard Norton Smith
- The Life of George Washington, Commander-In-Chief of the American Army Through the Revolutionary War and the First President of the United States by Aaron Bancroft
- George Washington by Willard Sterne Randall
- Washington: The Indispensable Man by James Thomas Flexner
- Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington by Richard Brookhiser
- George Washington’s Sacred Fire by Peter A. Lillback and Jerry Newcombe
- The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon by John Ferling
- George Washington’s War: The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American Presidency by Bruce Chadwick
- Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington by Peter R. Henriques
John Adams
- John Adams by David McCullough ✔️
- America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918 by Richard Brookhiser
Thomas Jefferson
- American Lion by Jon Meacham
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
- Thomas Jefferson: President & Philosopher by Jon Meacham
- Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade, and Don Yaeger
- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
- Thomas Jefferson: A Biography In His Own Words by Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
- James Madison: A Biography by Ralph Louis Ketcham
- James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney
Andrew Jackson
- Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics by Edward Pessen
- Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 by Robert V. Remini
- Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832 by Robert V. Remini
Abraham Lincoln
- Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
- Reflecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency by John C. Waugh
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly
- Lincoln, The War President: The Gettysburg Lectures by Gabor S. Borritt
- Abraham Lincoln: His Essential Wisdom by Carol Kelly-Gangi
- Abraham Lincoln: A Giant Among Presidents by Tanya Savory
- Lincoln: His Words and His World by Abraham Lincoln, Robert L. Polley (Editor)
- The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming
Theodore Roosevelt
- Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Aida D. Donald
- Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
- The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce E. Chaplin
John F. Kennedy
- An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek
Bill Clinton
- My Life by Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
- 41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush
Donald J. Trump
- Trump: America First: The President Succeeds Against All Odds by Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie
American Revolution
- The American Revolution: A Visual History by James C. Bradford
- The Revolutionary War: America’s Fight for Freedom by Bart McDowell
- The Revolutionary War by John M. Thompson
- The Impact of the American Revolution Abroad by Library of Congress
- The Revolutionary Years: Britannica’s Book of the American Revolution by Encyclopædia Britannica
- Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies: The Patriots by David Fisher
- The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
- Virtue, Valor, and Vanity: The Inside Story of the Founding Fathers and the Price of a More Perfect Union by Eric Burns
- Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
- Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan, and the Revolution That Created the Constitution by C. A. Cerami
- 1776 by David McCullough
- The Campaign That Won America: The Story of Yorktown by Burke Davis
- The Fourth of July: and the Founding of America by Peter de Bolla
- Founding Fathers: America’s Great Leaders and the Fight for Freedom (National Geographic) by K.M. Kostyal
- Liberty’s Secrets: The Lost Wisdom of America’s Founders by Joshua Charles
- Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by John Ferling
- A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson
- Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings by Thomas Paine, Sidney Hook (Introduction), and Jack Fruchtman Jr. (Foreword)
- A Documentary History of the United States by Richard D. Heffner, and Alexander B. Heffner
Civil War
- April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik
- Civil War Trivia and Fact Book: Unusual and Often Overlooked Facts About America’s Civil War by Webb Garrison
Presidency
- The American President by Phillip B. Kunhardt Jr., Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt
- The Presidents by The Saturday Evening Post
- The American Presidency, A Glorious Burden by Lonnie G. Bunch III, Spencer R. Crew, Mark G.Hirsch, Harry R. Rubenstein
- Our Country’s Presidents by Ann Bausum
- Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of the National Archives by Dwight Young, Brian Williams
- Presidents of the United States by A World Book Encyclopedia Limited Edition
- The Book of the Presidents by Vincent Wilson, Jr.
Washington, D.C.
- American Pantheon: Sculptural and Artistic Decoration of the United States Capitol by Donald R. Kennon and Thomas P. Somma
- We, the People: The Story of the United States Capitol: Its Past and Its Promise by United States Capitol Historical Society
- Washington Past And Present: A Guide To The Nation’s Capital by United States Capitol Historical Society ✔️
- United States Capitol by Fred J. Maroon
- Above Washington by Robert W. Cameron
White House
- Real Life at the White House: 200 Years of Daily Life at America’s Most Famous Residence by John Whitcomb and Claire Whitcomb
- The White House: An Illustrated History by Catherine O’Neill Grace
Mount Rushmore
- Mount Rushmore: The Story Behind the Scenery by Lincoln Borglum
- America’s Shrine of Democracy: A Pictorial History by T.D. Griffith, and Ronald Reagan (Foreward)
Colonial Williamsburg
- Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg by Michael Olmert
- A Williamsburg Christmas by Donna Sheppard, Vernon Wooten, Frank Davis
Other
- America: An Illustrated Early History 1776-1900 by TIME
- Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
- The War that Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War by Fred Anderson
- Seven Events That Made America America: And Proved That the Founding Fathers Were Right All Along by Larry Schweikart
- First Families: the Impact of the White House on Their Lives by Bonnie Angelo
- American Lives: Looking Back at the Children of the Great Depression by John A. Clausen
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
- Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine by Glenn Beck
- Of The People: The 200 Year History Of The Democratic Party by by Ronald H. Brown, John K. Galbraith, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Reich
- Cracking the Freemasons Code: The Truth About Solomon’s Key and the Brotherhood by Robert L.D. Cooper
- A Salute to the American Spirit: Words of Inspiration from America’s Presidents by Bryan Curtis