Susan Dunn

The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order

by David Levering Lewis

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

by Colin G. Calloway

A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

by Sam White

Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves

by Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 3: The War Years and After, 1939–1962

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

by Susan Quinn

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783–1789

by Joseph J. Ellis

John Quincy Adams: American Visionary

by Fred Kaplan

Louisa Catherine: The Other Mrs. Adams

by Margery M. Heffron, edited by David L. Michelmore

A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams

edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor, with a foreword by Laura Bush

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

by Jill Lepore

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815

by Gordon S. Wood