An ever growing list of literature about U.S. History...

 

Colonial Period & Salem Witch Trials (16th-18th Centuries):

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Father of Lies

Cate of the Lost Colony

Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons

The Color of Fire

Revolutionary America & Early National (1770-1815):

A Break with Charity

A Ride into Morning

Caleb’s Crossing

Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South

Chains: Seeds of America

Fever 1793

Finishing Becca

Five 4ths of July

Johnny Tremain

Just Jane

My Brother Sam Is Dead

Or Give Me Death – A Novel of Patrick Henry’s Family

Paul Revere’s Ride

Rip Van Winkle

Sarah Bishop

Seeds of America Series

Taking Liberty

The Fifth of March – A Story of the Boston Massacre

The Glory Field

The Kingdom on the Waves

The Minister’s Daughter

The Pox Party

The Rifle

The Second Bend in the River

The Year of the Hangman

Time Enough for Drums

Wolf by the Ears

Manifest Destiny, Westward Expansion & Pioneers, Reform Movements (1815- early 1900s):

Daniel’s Walk

Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue

Last Dance on Holladay Street

Newsgirl

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Stop the Train

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Case of the Deadly Desperados

The Education of Mary

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

The Letter Writer

The Light in the Forest

The Man Without a Country

The Revenant

The Springsweet

The Trouble With May Amelia

The Water Seeker

Thirteenth Child

True Grit

Undaunted Courage

War Party

We Hear the Dead

Woods Runner

Underground Railroad (1850s), Civil War (1860-1865) & Reconstruction (1865-1877):

Across Five Aprils

Amelia’s War

An Acquaintance with Darkness

An Unlikely Friendship

Becca’s Story

Booth’s Daughter

Civil War Journal

Cold Mountain

Come Juneteenth

Escape by Night

Freedom Stone

Girl in Blue

Gone With the Wind

Good Fortune

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

How I Found the Strong

In My Father’s House

Juliet’s Moon

Leigh Ann’s Civil War

Little Women

Mine Eyes Have Seen

My Vicksberg

No Man’s Land

Numbering All the Bones

O Captain! May Captain!

Picture the Dead

Red Moon at Sharpsburg

Reflections on the Civil War

Retreat from Gettysburg

Riot

Sarah’s Ground

Silent Thunder

Soldier’s Heart

The Ever-After Bird

The Last Full Measure

The Last Silk Dress

The House of Dies Drear

The Red Badge of Courage

The River Between Us

True North

With Every Drop of Blood

Industrial Revolution, Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1870-1917):

A Northern Light

Bowery Girl

Bread and Roses, Too

City of Orphans

Contagion

Dangerous Neighbors

Darker Still

Deadly

Dragonwings

Fair Weather

John Henry

Miss Spitfire

Pecos Bill

Roughing It

Storm Warriors

The Dinner Party

The King of Mazy May

The Land

The Luxe Series

The Story of an Eyewitness

The Vespertine

The Year We Were Famous

Three Rivers Rising

Timeless

WWI, First Red Scare & Roaring Twenties (1914-1920s):

A Day No Pigs Would Die

A Northern Light

After the Dancing Days

And In the Morning

Bright Young Things Series

Choosing Up Sides

Crossing Stones

Dragonwings

Flappers Series

How it Happened in Peach Hill

In the Shadow of Blackbirds

Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow

The Fire Horse Girl
Dave at Night

The Great Gatsby

The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic

Witness

Great Depression & WWII(1929-1945):

A Boy at War: A Novel

A Long Way from Chicago

A Separate Peace

Aleutian Sparrow

Blizzard’s Wake

Bud, Not Buddy

Catch-22

Dear Great American Writers School

Esperanza Rising

Flygirl

Friends and Enemies

Homefront

I Had Seen Castles

Mare’s War

Moon Over Manifest

Number the Stars

Out of the Dust

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

Slap Your Sides

Summer of My German Soldier

Tallgrass

The Bomb

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Grapes of Wrath

The Green Glass Sea

The Home Front

The Luck of Buttons

To Kill a Mockingbird

Under a War-Torn Sky

Under the Blood Red Sun

1940s-1960s, Second Red Scare, Civil Rights Movement, and Vietnam War:

Bone by Bone by Bone

Countdown

Eli the Good

Everybody Sees the Ants

Fallen Angels

Fallout

Guardian

I Pledge Allegiance

Kira-Kira

Leon’s Story

My Louisiana Sky

Purple Daze

Search and Destroy

Sonny’s War

Spite Fences

Strings Attached

Summer’s End

The Girl is Murder

The Life History of a Star

The Lions of Little Rock

The Red Umbrella

The Road Home

The Rock and the River

War and Watermelon

What I Saw and How I Lied

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town