Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

US Paratrooper 1941–45

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City

Twelve Years a Slave

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever