Declaring Independence

Why 1776 Matters

Edward J. Larson

We The People 

A History of the U.S. Constitution

Jill Lepore

Our Fragile Freedoms

Essays

Eric Foner

Our Declaration 

A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

Danielle Allen

The Cause

The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783

Joseph J. Ellis

The Second Founding

How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Eric Foner

The Story of American Freedom

Eric Foner

Give Me Liberty!

An American History

Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, and Lisa McGirr

These Truths 

Jill Lepore

Inquiry Edition

Jill Lepore

This America 

The Case for the Nation

Jill Lepore

American Inheritance 

Edward J. Larson

American Revolutions

A Continental History, 1750–1804

Alan Taylor

American Republics

Alan Taylor

Thomas Jefferson’s Education 

Alan Taylor 

"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs"

Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf 

Thomas Jefferson 

An Intimate History

Fawn M. Brodie and Annette Gordon-Reed

An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed 

After the Revolution

Profiles of Early American Culture

Joseph J. Ellis

Passionate Sage 

The Character and Legacy of John Adams

Joseph J. Ellis

Heart of American Darkness

Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier

Robert G. Parkinson

Revolution Song 

The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

Russell Shorto 

Taking Manhattan 

The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

Russell Shorto

West of the Revolution

Claudio Saunt