- The Great Depression in America, a cultural encyclopedia, William H. Young and Nancy K. Young
- Truth machine, the contentious history of DNA fingerprinting, Michael Lynch [and others]
- Jacob Lawrence, paintings, drawings, and murals (1935-1999) : a catalogue raisonné, Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuBois ; with assistance from Stephanie Ellis-Smith
- The race beat, the press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
- The failed welfare revolution, America's struggle over guaranteed income policy, Brian Steensland
- Crime, punishment, and mental illness, law and the behavioral sciences in conflict, Patricia E. Erickson, Steven K. Erickson
- Movie censorship and American culture, edited by Francis G. Couvares
- Vietnam, the history of an unwinnable war, 1945-1975, John Prados
- On the frontier of adulthood, theory, research, and public policy, Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Rubén G. Rumbaut, editors
- I've got a home in glory land, a lost tale of the underground railroad, Karolyn Smardz Frost
- The first modern campaign, Kennedy, Nixon, and the election of 1960, Gary A. Donaldson
- The death and life of the great American school system, how testing and choice are undermining education, Diane Ravitch
- Building houses out of chicken legs, Black women, food, and power, Psyche A. Williams-Forson
- Madhouse, a tragic tale of megalomania and modern medicine, Andrew Scull
- Over the line, the art and life of Jacob Lawrence, edited with an introduction by Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuBois ; essays by Patricia Hills [and others]
- That's the way it is, a history of television news in America, Charles L. Ponce de Leon
- The Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González, editors in chief
- War slang, American fighting words and phrases since the Civil War, Paul Dickson
- Home fronts, a wartime America reader, edited by Michael S. Foley and Brendan P. O'Malley
- Lords of finance, the bankers who broke the world, Liaquat Ahamed
- The second civil war, how extreme partisanship has paralyzed Washington and polarized America, Ronald Brownstein
- Lincoln and Douglas, the debates that defined America, Allen C. Guelzo
- Gentlemen scientists and revolutionaries, the founding fathers in the age of enlightenment, Tom Shachtman
- What hath God wrought, the transformation of America, 1815-1848, Daniel Walker Howe
- Is Iraq another Vietnam?, Robert K. Brigham
- Suffragists in an imperial age, U.S. expansion and the woman question, 1870-1929, Allison L. Sneider
- Liberty of conscience, in defense of America's tradition of religious equality, Martha C. Nussbaum
- Lost battalions, the Great War and the crisis of American nationality, Richard Slotkin
- Encyclopedia of American political parties and elections, Larry J. Sabato, Howard R. Ernst
- We'll always have the movies, American cinema during World War II, Robert L. McLaughlin, Sally E. Parry
- Historical statistics of the United States, earliest times to the present, Susan B. Carter [and others]
- Looking like the enemy, Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican state, and US hegemony, 1897-1945, Jerry García
- Auto mania, cars, consumers, and the environment, Tom McCarthy
- The secular state under siege, religion and politics in Europe and America, Christian Joppke
- Mainline Christianity, the past and future of America's majority faith, Jason S. Lantzer
- Another fine mess, a history of American film comedy, Saul Austerlitz
- Freedom riders, 1961 and the struggle for racial justice, Raymond Arsenault
- Sweet bird of youth, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; a Roxbury production ; produced by Pandro S. Berman in Cinemacope and Metrocolor ; written for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks
- A vision for universal preschool education, Edward Zigler, Walter S. Gilliam, Stephanie M. Jones
- Introduction to new and alternative religions in America, edited by Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft
- At home on the street, people, poverty, and a hidden culture of homelessness, Jason Adam Wasserman, Jeffrey Michael Clair
- Guests of the Ayatollah, the first battle in America's war with militant Islam, Mark Bowden
- In defense of food, an eater's manifesto, Michael Pollan
- The one percent doctrine, deep inside America's pursuit of its enemies since 9/11, Ron Suskind
- American modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, from World War I to 1955, Judith A. Barter [and others] ; with contributions by Jennifer M. Downs
- America works, the exceptional U.S. labor market, Richard B. Freeman
- The slave ship, a human history, Marcus Rediker
- Out of sight, the rise of African American popular music, 1889-1895, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
- American carnival, journalism under siege in an age of new media, Neil Henry
- John Tyler, the accidental president, Edward P. Crapol