The Americans: The National Experience
by Daniel J. Boorstin | 
A History of the American People
by Paul Johnson | 
Empire of Liberty
by Gordon S. Wood | 
The Great Upheaval
by Jay Winik | 
Eyewitness to America
by David Colbert | 
What Hath God Wrought
by Daniel Walker Howe | 
Albion's Seed
by David Hackett Fischer | 
The Barbarous Years
by Bernard Bailyn | 
The American Story
by Jennifer Armstrong | 
The Unknown American Revolution
by Gary B. Nash |
History of the United States of America during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson
by Henry Adams | 
A Struggle for Power
by Theodore Draper | 
The First Salute
by Barbara W. Tuchman | 
Plain, Honest Men
by Richard Beeman | 
Give Me Liberty!
by Eric Foner |
Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "A superb panorama of life in America from the first settlements on through the white hot days of the Revolution." - Bruce Lancaster, Saturday Review