1st Semester - Titles that BxHS owns
1776 by David McCullough
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights by Dorothy Wickenden
American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America by David O. Stewart
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle that Shaped America’s Destiny by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis by James L. Swanson
Bound for the Promised Land. Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Clifford Larson
Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts
Duel With the Devil by Paul Collins
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
The Forgotten Founding Father by Joshua Kendall
George Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade (e-book and paper)
The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House by Jesse J. Holland
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne V. Cheney
Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry that Forged a Nation by John E. Ferling
John Adams by David McCullough
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan
Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
Lincoln's Battle with God by Stephen Mansfield
Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America by David O. Stewart
Manhunt: the Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood
Samuel Adams: A Life by Ira Stoll
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade
Traitor, the case of Benedict Arnold by Jean Fritz
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
Washington by Ron Chernow
Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose
The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army and the Emergency of George Washington by Paul Douglas Lockhart
2nd Semester - Titles that BxHS owns
Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis that Made a President by Jonathan Darman
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel Brown
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA’s Challenger Disaster by Kevin Cook
A Century and Some Change: My Life before the President called my Name by Ann Nixon Cooper with Karen Grigsby Bates
Coolidge by Amity Shlaes
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year by Tavis Smiley
The Dream: Martin Luther King Jr and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Drew D. Hansen
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line by Major General Mari K. Eder
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
Herbert Hoover by William Edward Leuchtenburg
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot
Lee Shetterly
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein
JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President by Thurston Clarke
The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy by Larry Sabato
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O’Reilly
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General by Bill O’Reilly
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy by Ted Widmer
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency by James Tobin
The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians by Cynthia C. Kelly
Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion by Jean H. Baker
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson
Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies by Marc Aronson
Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America by Eric Rauchway
One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon by Tim Weiner
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
Rocket Boys: A Memoir by Homer Hickam
The Roosevelts by Geoffrey C. Ward
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat by Bob Woodward
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II by Lynne Olson
Three Wise Men by Beau Wise
Titanic: A Survivor’s Story by Archibald Gracie
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Women Trapped on Bataan by Elizabeth Norman
When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning