| The Best Nonfiction American History Books | |||
| Title | Author | Call Number | subject |
| Jamestown, John Smith and Pocohontas in American History | Edwards | 975.5 Edw | 1607 |
| Founding Mothers: Women of America in the Revolutionary Era | De Pauw | 323.34 DeP | Revolutionary War |
| Black Heroes of the American Revolution | Davis | 973.3 Dav | Revolutionary War |
| Spies and Traitors: Tales of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars | Raskin | 973.3 Ras | Revolutionary War |
| The World Turned Upside Down | Leckie | 973.3 Lec | Revolutionary War |
| Women of the American Revolution | Slavicek | 973.3 Sla | Revolutionary War |
| An American Plague: Yellow Fever Epidemic 1793 | Murphy | 614.5 Mur | 1700's |
| Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: Search for Smallpox Vaccine | Marrin | 614.5 Mar | 1800's |
| What's the Deal? Jefferson, Napoleon and the Lousiana Purchase | Blumberg | 973.4 Blu | 1803 |
| The Mexican-American War | Nardo | 973.6 Nar | 1840's |
| Amistad (based on the movie) | Barnes | 326 Bar | Slavery |
| Freedom Songs: The True Story of the Amistad | Jurmain | 326 Jur | Slavery |
| Long Journey Home | Lester | 326 Les | Slavery |
| Rebels Against Slavery | McKissack | 326 McK | Slavery |
| This Strange New Feeling | Lester | 326 Les | Slavery |
| To Be A Slave | Lester | 326 Les | Slavery |
| Killer Angels | Shaara | 973.7 | Civil War |
| Spies and Traitors: Tales of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars | Raskin | 973.3 Ras | Civil War |
| The Boys' War | Murphy | 973.7 Mur | Civil War |
| The Civil War | Golay | 973.7 Gol | Civil War |
| Cowboys of the Wild West | Freedman | 978 Fre | Westward Expansion |
| Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad | Blumberg | 385 Blu | Westward Expansion |
| Mississsippi Steamboat Days | McCague | 386 McG | Westward Expansion |
| Stagecoach Days and Stagecoach Kings | Voight | 388.3 Voi | Westward Expansion |
| Trailblazers: The Men and Women Who Forged the West | Jones | 978 Jon | Westward Expansion |
| Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers | Wadsworth | 917.8 Wad | Westward Expansion |
| The Great Fire: Chicago 1871 | Murphy | 977.3 Mur | 1871 |
| The Tragedy of Little Big Horn | Halliburton | 973.8 Hal | 1876 |
| Going to School in 1876 | Loeper | 370 Loe | 1876 |
| Blizzard of 1888 | Murphy | 974.7 Mur | 1888 |
| Wounded Knee the Death of a Dream | O'Neil | 973.8 One | 1890 |
| Klondike Fever: The Famous Gold Rush of 1898 | Cooper | 971.9 Coo | 1898 |
| The Triangle Factory Fire | Sherrow | 973.912 She | 1911 |
| A Night to Remember: Sinking of the Titanic | Lord | 910.4 Lor | 1912 |
| Ice Story: Shackleton's Lost Expedition | Kimmel | 910.9 Kim | 1914 |
| Hell Fighters: African American Soldiers in WWI | Cooper | 940.4 Coo | WWI |
| The Yanks are Coming: US in the First World War | Marrin | 940.4 Mar | WWI |
| World War I on the Virginia Peninsula | Quarstein | 940.3 Qua | WWI |
| Prohibition | Cohen | 973.914 Coh | 1920's |
| Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | Blumenthal | 332.64 Blu | 1920's |
| Children of the Dust Bowl | Stanley | 973.916 Sta | Great Depression |
| The Great Depression | Farrell | 973.917 Fer | Great Depression |
| Bridging the Golden Gate | Pelta | 624 Pel | 1930's |
| Seabiscuit | Hillenbrand | 973.917 Hil | 1930's |
| The New Deal | Stewart | 973.917 Ste | 1930's |
| Hiroshima | Hersey | 940.54 Her | WWII |
| Hitler's Reich | Stewart | 943.086 Ste | WWII |
| I Am Fifteen and I Don't Want to Die | Arnothy | 940.53 Arn | WWII |
| Navajo Code Talkers | Aaseng | 940.548 Aas | WWII |
| Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in WWII | Colman | 940.54 Col | WWII |
| The Day Pearl Harbor Was Bombed | Sullivan | 940.53 Sul | WWII |
| The Hiding Place | Ten Boom | 940.53 Ten | WWII |
| The Story of World War II | Graff | 940.54 Gra | WWII |
| The Tuskegee Airmen | George | 940.54 Geo | WWII |
| Hitler Youth | Bartoletti | 940.53 | WWII |
| V is for Victory: America Remembers WWII | Krull | 940.53 Kru | WWII |
| Farewell to Manzanar | Houston | 940.54 Hou | Japanese Internment- WWII |
| I Am An American: True Story of Japanese Internment | Stanley | 940.53 Sta | Japanese Internment- WWII |
| Witnesses to War | Leapman | 940.53 Lea | Holocaust |
| Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust | Zullo | 940.53 Zul | Holocaust |
| Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary | Van der Rol | 940.53 Van | Holocaust |
| Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps | Warren | 940.53 War | Holocaust |
| Thanks to My Mother | Rabinovici | 940.53 Rab | Holocaust |
| We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust | Boas | 940.53 Boa | Holocaust |
| The Atom Bomb | Lace | 355.8 Lac | 1940's |
| The American Dream - The 50's | Time-Life | 973.91 Ame | 1950's |
| The American Nightmare: McCarthy and the Politics of Hate | Goldston | 973.918 Gol | 1950's |
| Black Like Me | Griffin | 303.3 Gri | Civil Rights Movement 1960's |
| Freedom Rides: Journey for Justice | Haskins | 326 Has | Civil Rights Movement 1960's |
| Separate But Not Equal: The Dream and the Struggle | Haskins | 326 Has | Civil Rights Movement 1960's |
| The Bridge at Selma | Miller | 976.1 Mil | Civil Rights Movement 1960's |
| Americans in Space | Dille | 629.4 Dil | 1960's |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Gow | 973.922 Gow | 1961 |
| Kennedy Assasinated | Hampton | 973.922 Ham | 1963 |
| Apollo 13 | Lovell | 629.54 Lov | 1970 |
| The Watergate Scandal | Freman | 973.924 Fre | 1973 |
| Always to Remember: The Story of the Vietnam War Memorial | Ashabranner | 959.7 Ash | Vietnam War |
| Home Before Morning: True Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam | Devanter | 959.7 Dev | Vietnam War |
| The War in Vietnam | Lawson | 959.70 Law | Vietnam War |
| Why Vietnam Still Matters: The War and the Wall | Scruggs | 973.923 Scr | Vietnam War |
| The Space Shuttle | Taylor | 629.44 Tay | 1970-2000 |
| The End of the Cold War | Pietrusza | 973.92 Pie | 1980's |
| War in the Gulf | Allen | 956 All | Gulf War-1990s |
| September 11, 2001 | Santella | 973.931 San | 2001 |
| Understanding September 11th | Frank | 973.931 Fra | 2001 |
| Black Hands, White Sails | McKissack | 326 McK | African-Americans |
| The Black Cowboys | De Angelis | 978 DeA | African-Americans |
| The Buffalo Soldiers | Stovall | 978 Sto | African-Americans |
| The Harlem Renaissance | Chambers | 973.91 Cha | African-Americans |
| Masterpieces of American Painting | Fisher | 759.1 Fis | Art |
| Norman Rockwell Illustrator | Guptill | 759 Gup | Art |
| Growing Up in Coal Country | Bartoletti | 331.3 Bar | Child Labor |
| Kids on Strike | Bartoletti | 331.892 Bar | Child Labor |
| We Have Marched Together | Currie | 331.3 Cur | Child Labor |
| In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights | Freedman | 342.73 Fre | Civics |
| Let Freedom Ring: The Words That Shaped Our America | Sterling | 973 Let | Civics |
| African-American Inventors II | Henderson | 920 Hen | Famous People |
| African-American Poets | Strickland | 920 Str | Famous People |
| Against All Opposition: Black Explorers in America | Haskins | 920 Has | Famous People |
| American Civil Rights Leaders | Harmon | 920 Har | Famous People |
| American Revolutionaries and Founders of the Nation | Meisner | 920 Mei | Famous People |
| Cheaper By the Dozen | Gilbreth | 920 Gil | Famous People |
| Great American Astronauts | Crocker | 920 Cro | Famous People |
| Great Artists of America | Freedgood | 920 Fre | Famous People |
| In the Line of Fire: President's Lives at Stake | St. George | 920 St.G | Famous People |
| Indian Chiefs | Freedman | 920 Fre | Famous People |
| Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters | Pinkney | 920 Pin | Famous People |
| Lives of Notable Asian Americans | Ragaza | 920 Rag | Famous People |
| Military Leaders of the Civil War | Tracey | 920 Tra | Famous People |
| Outward Dreams: Black Inventors | Haskins | 920 Has | Famous People |
| People of the West | Duncan | 920 Dun | Famous People |
| The Smithsonian Book of the First Ladies | Smithsonian | 920 Smi | Famous People |
| The Wright Brothers | Freedman | 920 Fre | Famous People |
| American Tall Tales | Osbourne | 398.22 Osb | Folktales |
| Cut From the Same Cloth: American Women in Myth, Legend | San Souci | 398.21 San | Folktales |
| A Land of Immigrants | Reimers | 325 Rei | Immigration |
| Sensational Trials of the 20th Century | Kraft | 347.73 Kra | Law |
| America at War: Battles that Turned the Tide | Black | 973 Bla | Miscellaneous |
| Blackbeard's Cup and Stories of the Outer Banks | Whedbee | 975.6 Whe | Miscellaneous |
| Events that Shaped the Century: 20th Century | Time-Life | 973.9 Eve | Miscellaneous |
| In God We Trust: Stories of Faith in American History | Crater | 277.3 Cra | Miscellaneous |
| Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History | Shenkman | 973 She | Miscellaneous |
| Scholastic Encyclopedia of the United States at War | English | 973 Eng | Miscellaneous |
| She's Been Working on the Railroad | Levinson | 978 Lev | Miscellaneous |
| The Alamo | Fisher | 976.4 Fis | Miscellaneous |
| The Panama Canal | Dutemple | 972.87 Dut | Miscellaneous |
| The Statue of Liberty | Roberts | 974.7 Cor | Miscellaneous |
| The World Trade Center | Corona | 974.7 Cor | Miscellaneous |
| Black Music in America | Haskins | 781.7 Has | Music |
| Jazz | Carlin | 781.65 Car | Music |
| Politics American Style: Political Parties in American History | Morin | 324.273 Mor | Politics |
| 100 Years of Hoops | Wolff | 796.323 Wol | Sports |
| Belles of the Park | Helmer | 796.357 Hel | Sports |
| Black Olympian Medalists | Page | 796.092 Pag | Sports |
| The Story of Baseball | Ritter | 796.357 Rit | Sports |
| The Story of the Negro League Baseball | Brashler | 796.357 Bra | Sports |
| American Women's History | Weatherford | 323.34 Wea | Women |