W. Peter Flaig Library

U.S. History Reads

Click below to see what readers on Goodreads are saying about these captivating American history books. You can check out all of these from the Trinity library.

Accidental PresidentsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental Pr...

An African American and Latinx History of the United StatesAn intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An ...

Alexander HamiltonAn alternate cover edition can be found here. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamil...

American MoonshotInstant New York Times Bestseller As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and per...

Area 51It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn’t exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in...

Assassinations, Threats, and the American PresidencyThroughout American history, Presidents and Presidential candidates have faced countless assassination threats and attempts on their live...

BarracoonIn 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions ...

BecomingIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. A...

Black Elk Speaks"Black Elk Speaks," the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous tw...

A Black Women's History of the United StatesA vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have al...

The Blood of Emmett TillIn 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of ...

Boots on the GroundIn March 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops into Vietnam. 57,939 American soldiers would be killed and seventeen years would pa...

The BurningOne of the worst acts of racial violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated th...

Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeNow a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Origin...

Dark Sky RisingHenry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's con...

The Dead Are ArisingLes Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview...

Dodge CityDodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle...

The Dust BowlIn this riveting chronicle, which accompanies a documentary to be broadcast on PBS in the fall, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the p...

Eat the AppleEat the Apple is a twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined t...

The Edge of AnarchyTimely and urgent...The core of The Edge of Anarchy is a thrilling description of the boycott of Pullman cars and equipment by Eugene Deb...

A Few Red DropsOn a hot day in July 1919, three black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An ang...

First ManOn July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person to st...

Flags of Our FathersIn this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the...

Fly GirlsThe untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s — and won ...

1491In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas befo...

Frederick DouglassAs a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read ...

Forget the AlamoThree noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for ...

From a Whisper to a Rallying CryAmerica in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti–Asian America...

Games of DeceptionThe true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games in Hitler's Germany. On a scorching hot day in July 1936, tho...

GrantUlysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond ...

The Ground Breaking And then they were gone. More than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors' off...

Hard TimesIn this unique recreation of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of...

Hellhound on His TrailOn April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric...

Hitler in Los AngelesThe chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it. N...

How to Hide an EmpireA pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outl...

If By SeaThe American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous midnight...

The ImpeachersAmerica's first presidential impeachment: A prize-winning author tells the story of the efforts by heroic citizens to preserve the victor...

ImpeachmentFour experts on the American presidency review the only three impeachment cases from history--against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and ...

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples. Today in the United States, there are more than...

InfamyA LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE • Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritati...

Kiyo SatoOur camp, they tell us, is now to be called a 'relocation center' and not a 'concentration camp.' We are internees, not prisoners. Here's...

Lincoln's Last TrialThe true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which was played o...

MansonBased on new interviews with previously undiscovered relatives and filled with revelations and unpublished photographs, this is the most ...

Master of his fateMaster of His Fate by James Tobin is an inspiring middle-grade biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with a focus on his battle with po...

The Men Who United the StatesThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic delivers his first book about America: a fascinating look at the men whose ef...

Most DangerousIn 1964, Daniel Ellsberg was one of the Pentagon insiders helping to plan a war in Vietnam. The mountainous Asian country had long been a...

Never CaughtA startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Wash...

1968A major new history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale...

Nuking the MoonThe International Spy Museum's Historian takes us on a wild tour of missions and schemes that almost happened, but were ultimately deemed...

On JuneteenthWeaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provide...

Ordinary Heroes From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those who died that others might live ...

A People's History of the United StatesLibrary Journal calls Howard Zinn’s iconic A People's History of the United States “a brilliant and moving history of the American people...

The PioneersPulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the...

"The President Has Been Shot!"A breathtaking and dramatic account of the JFK assassination by the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER!FORMAT:...

A Promised LandA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making, from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. ...

The RacersThe heart-pounding story of an unlikely band of ragtags who took on Hitler's Grand Prix driver. In the years before World War II, Adolf ...

The Road to JonestownBy the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was res...

Separate No MoreCritically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone offers an affecting portrait of the road to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case,...

A Short History of The Civil WarExplore the fascinating history of America's bloodiest ever conflict. Combining expert historical insight with the eyewitness accounts ...

The 1619 ProjectThe 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. In late August 1619, a ship arrived in...

Slavery in the NorthIn 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philad...

The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 ObjectsThe Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heri...

Superman Versus The Ku Klux KlanThis book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux ...

Terror to the Wicked A brutal killing, an all-out manhunt, and a riveting account of the first murder trial in U.S. history--set in the 1600s in colonial N...

They Called Themselves the K.K.K."Boys, let us get up a club."With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion in 1866. They pulled white ...

They Came Before ColumbusThey Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in a...

They Were Her PropertyA bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women’s history, the history of th...

The Three MothersIn her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story ...

A Time of FearFrom National Book Award Finalist and Sibert Honor Author Albert Marrin, a timely examination of Red Scares in the United States, includi...

Top GunOn the 50th anniversary of the creation of the "Topgun" Navy Fighter School, its founder shares the remarkable inside story of how he and...

Twelve Years a SlaveTwelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in ...

The Warmth of Other SunsIn this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories o...

The Way I Heard ItEmmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from ...

What Unites UsAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.” —Dan Rather At ...

The WitchesPulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials...

Witch-HuntSalem, Massachusetts, 1692. In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accusers, girls and young women, are fervent an...

The Woman They Could Not Silence1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. T...

You Never Forget Your FirstIn a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first—and finds he's not quite the man we remember Young George ...

Zero FailThe first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the ongoing scandals under Oba...

Click below to see what readers on Goodreads are saying about these graphic novels on U.S. History. You can check out all of these from the Trinity library.

Alexander HamiltonA graphic novel biography of the American legend who inspired the hit Broadway musical Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was one of the most ...

The Cartoon History of the United StatesWhat? You don't know what a Burgess is? -- You can't outline the Monroe Doctrine? -- Recall the 14th Amendment? -- Explain the difference...

Drowned CityOn August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans,...

Escape to Gold MountainThis is a vivid graphic history of the Chinese experience in North America over the last 150 years, beginning with the immigration of Chi...

Fever YearFrom the Sibert Honor–winning creator behind The Unwanted and Drowned City comes one of the darkest episodes in American history: the Spa...

The Harlem HellfightersFrom bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment--the Harlem Hel...

In the Shadow of the Fallen TowersA graphic novel chronicling the immediate aftermath and rippling effects of one of the most impactful days in modern history: September 1...

Kent StateFrom bestselling author Derf Backderf comes the untold story of the Kent State shootings—timed for the 50th anniversary On May 4, 1970,...

KingThis groundbreaking body of comics journalism collects for first time Anderson's entire biography of the renowned civil rights leader Rev...

Latino USALatino USA represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans's lifelong determination to meet the challenges of capturing the joys, nuances, and...

The Life of Frederick Douglass A graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, bas...

March (March, #1)March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the dist...

A People's History of American EmpireSince its landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copi...

The 9/11 ReportThe 9/11 Report for Every American On December 5, 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report card on the government’s fulfillment ...

RunFirst you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award–winning team behind March comes the first book in their new, groundbreaking...

The Silence of Our FriendsIn 1960s Texas, a white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line...

Strange Fruit, Volume IStrange Fruit, Volume I is a collection of stories from African American history that exemplifies success in the face of great adversity....

They Called Us EnemyA graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World Wa...

The United States ConstitutionOur leaders swear to uphold it, our military to defend it. It is the blueprint for the shape and function of government itself and what d...

What Unites UsIn this graphic novel adaptation of his bestselling collection of essays, legendary news anchor Dan Rather provides a voice of reason and...

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