All reviews are by Daniel B. Clendenin except as noted.

History

Mark Adams Turn Right at Machu Picchu; Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Bernard Bailyn The Barbarous Years; The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675
John M. Barry The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Mary Beard SPQR; A History of Ancient Rome
Daniel James Brown The Indifferent Stars Above; The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Gordon H. Chang Ghosts of Gold Mountain; The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
Norman Davies Vanished Kingdoms; The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Anthony Everitt Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
Drew Gilpin Faust This Republic of Suffering; Death and the American Civil War
Niall Ferguson The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Carrie Gibson El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Andy Goldsworthy Hadrian's Wall
Annette Gordon-Reed On Juneteenth
Greg Grandin The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Pekka Hämäläinen The Comanche Empire
Christopher de Hamel Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts The Great War; A Photographic Narrative
Daniel Immerwahr How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Dan Jones Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Brad Keister. The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay
Ibram X. Kendi Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
John Lukacs The Legacy of the Second World War
Margaret MacMillan Dangerous Games; The Uses and Abuses of History
Charles C. Mann 1491: New Revelations About the Americas Before Columbus
1493: Uncovering the New World That Columbus Created
David McCullough The Pioneers; The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Jon Meacham American Gospel; God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Patrick Modiano Dora Bruder
Nick Neely Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
Annalee Newitz Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Jeremy D. Popkin A New World Begins; the History of the French Revolution
Samantha Power A Problem From Hell; America and the Age of Genocide
Vijay Prashad The Darker Nations; A People's History of the Third World
Mitri Raheb Faith in the Face of Empire; The Bible Through Palestinian Eyes
Ethan Rarick Desperate Passage; The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
David S. Reynolds Mightier Than the Sword; "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Battle for America
Richard Rothstein The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Claudio Saunt Unworthy Republic; The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Randy J. Sparks Where The Negroes Are Masters; An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
Nicolas Thomas Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific
Elie Wiesel Rashi
Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns; The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Simon Winchester Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Howard Zinn A People's History of the United States, 1492–Present

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