- History teaches us to hope, reflections on the Civil War and southern history, Charles P. Roland ; edited and with an introduction by John David Smith
- The vanquished, why the First World War failed to end, Robert Gerwarth
- A disease in the public mind, a new understanding of why we fought the Civil War, Thomas Fleming
- The Zimmermann telegram, Barbara W. Tuchman
- Embers of war, the fall of an empire and the making of America's Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall
- Germany's aims in the First World War, by Fritz Fischer ; with introd. by Hajo Holborn and James Joll
- A just and generous nation, Abraham Lincoln and the fight for American opportunity, Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle
- America's great debate, Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union, Fergus M. Bordewich
- Civil War in the making, 1815-1860
- Life and death in the Third Reich, Peter Fritzsche
- Is Iraq another Vietnam?, Robert K. Brigham
- The origins of the Final Solution, the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March 1942, Christopher R. Browning ; with contributions by Jürgen Matthäus
- Population wars, a new perspective on competition and coexistence, Greg Graffin
- Fanatics and fire-eaters, newspapers and the coming of the Civil War, Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr
- What causes war?, an introduction to theories of international conflict, Greg Cashman
- Bush's wars, Terry H. Anderson
- The prize, the epic quest for oil, money, and power, Daniel Yergin
- The war of the world, twentieth-century conflict and the descent of the West, Niall Ferguson
- A glorious defeat, Mexico and its war with the United States, Timothy J. Henderson
- Unshackling America, how the War of 1812 truly ended the American Revolution, Willard Sterne Randall
- The origins of the Cuban Revolution reconsidered, Samuel Farber
- Ecstatic nation, confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848-1877, Brenda Wineapple
- The Assassination of the Archduke, Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World, Greg King and Sue Woolmans
- The old régime and the French Revolution, translated by Stuart Gilbert
- The coming of the Civil War
- Lincoln and the decision for war, the northern response to secession, Russell McClintock
- Holocaust, a history, Deborah Dwork, Robert Jan van Pelt
- War and its causes, Jeremy Black
- 1861, the Civil War awakening, Adam Goodheart
- How could this happen, explaining the Holocaust, Dan McMillan
- Life unworthy of life, racial phobia and mass murder in Hitler's Germany, James M. Glass
- The holocaust in historical context, Steven T. Katz
- War & society, Miguel A. Centeno, Elaine Enriquez
- Countdown to Pearl Harbor, the twelve days to the attack, Steve Twomey
- War, David Haugen, book editor
- Europe's last summer, who started the Great War in 1914?, David Fromkin
- Ideology of death, why the Holocaust happened in Germany, John Weiss
- The end of tsarist Russia, the march to World War I and revolution, Dominic Lieven
- The month that changed the world, July 1914, Gordon Martel
- Was revolution inevitable?, turning points of the Russian Revolution, edited by Tony Brenton
- The road to disunion, William W. Freehling
- War law, understanding international law and armed conflicts, Michael Byers
- The war that ended peace, the road to 1914, Margaret MacMillan
- Two roads to Sumter,, by William and Bruce Catton
- The causes of the War of 1812., National honor or national interest?
- Hitler's willing executioners, ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
- U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848, a production of KERA Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton ; produced in association with Once TV, Mexico City ; produced by Andrea Boardman, Ginny Martin, Rob Tranchin ; directed by Ginny Martin ; written by Rob Tranchin
- The California Gold Rush and the coming of the Civil War, Leonard L. Richards
- Manifest destinies, America's westward expansion and the road to the Civil War, Steven E. Woodworth
- Why we watched, Europe, America, and the Holocaust, Theodore S. Hamerow