Gordon S. Wood

George Washington’s Journey: The President Forges a New Nation

by T.H. Breen

John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit

by James Traub

Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams

by Louisa Thomas

“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf

Hamilton: An American Musical

book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda

War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel That Stunned the Nation

by John Sedgwick

The Origins of American Religious Nationalism

by Sam Haselby

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

by Danielle Allen

Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health

by Jeanne E. Abrams

Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America

by François Weil

1775: A Good Year for Revolution

by Kevin Phillips

1812: The Navy’s War

by George C. Daughan

James Madison

by Richard Brookhiser

James Madison: Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation

by Jeff Broadwater

Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War: America’s First Couple and the Second War of Independence

by Hugh Howard

Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty

by John M. Barry

Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters

by Ben Tarnoff

First Family: Abigail and John

by Joseph J. Ellis

Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility

by G.J. Barker-Benfield

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

by Maya Jasanoff

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History

by Jill Lepore