- Triumphs and tragedy, a history of the Mexican people, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
- The Victorians, A.N. Wilson
- The great bronze age of China, an exhibition from the People's Republic of China, edited by Wen Fong ; introductory essays by Ma Chengyuan [and others] ; catalogue by Robert W. Bagley, Jenny F. So, Maxwell K. Hearn
- Look away!, a history of the Confederate States of America, William C. Davis
- A fierce discontent, the rise and fall of the Progressive movement in America, 1870-1920, Michael McGerr
- America afire, Jefferson, Adams, and the revolutionary election of 1800, Bernard A. Weisberger
- A distant mirror, the calamitous 14th century, Barbara W. Tuchman
- Japanese things;, being notes on various subjects connected with Japan, for the use of travelers and others
- The divided ground, Indians, settlers and the northern borderland of the American Revolution, Alan Taylor
- Churchill, a biography, Roy Jenkins
- Benjamin Franklin, Edmund S. Morgan
- A brilliant solution, inventing the American Constitution, Carol Berkin
- Where ghosts walked, Munich's road to the Third Reich, David Clay Large
- William McKinley, Kevin Phillips
- Founding father, rediscovering George Washington, by Richard Brookhiser
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, a rendezvous with destiny, by Frank Freidel
- The search for modern China, Jonathan D. Spence
- Dark sun, the making of the hydrogen bomb, Richard Rhodes
- Rearing wolves to our own destruction, slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865, Midori Takagi
- Lenin, a biography, Robert Service
- Russia under the Bolshevik regime, Richard Pipes
- Blake, Peter Ackroyd
- Flawed giant, Lyndon Johnson and his times, 1961-1973, Robert Dallek
- The rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
- The making of the atomic bomb, Richard Rhodes
- For cause and comrades, why men fought in the Civil War, James M. McPherson
- The origins of American slavery, freedom and bondage in the English colonies, Betty Wood
- William the Conqueror, the Norman impact upon England, David C. Douglas
- The short Oxford history of English literature, Andrew Sanders
- Freedom from Fear, the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, David M. Kennedy
- The war of the world, twentieth-century conflict and the descent of the West, Niall Ferguson
- Napoleon Bonaparte, Alan Schom
- The last years of the Monroe doctrine, 1945-1993, Gaddis Smith
- The pity of war, Niall Ferguson
- Adams vs. Jefferson, the tumultuous election of 1800, John Ferling
- The English philosophers, from Bacon to Mill, edited, with an introduction, by Edwin A. Burtt
- The Isles, a history, Norman Davies
- Europe, a history, Norman Davies
- A forest of kings, the untold story of the ancient Maya, Linda Schele and David Freidel ; color photographs by Justin Kerr
- The Oxford companion to United States history, editor in chief, Paul S. Boyer ; editors, Melvyn Dubofsky, Eric H. Monkkonen, Ronald L. Numbers, David M. Oshinsky, Emily S. Rosenberg
- The Reader's companion to American history, Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, editors ; sponsored by the Society of American Historians
- The great nation, France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99, Colin Jones
- Many thousands gone, the first two centuries of slavery in North America, Ira Berlin
- A people's history of the United States, 1492-present, Howard Zinn
- Time detectives, how archeologists use technology to recapture the past, by Brian Fagan
- The founders of the western world, a history of Greece and Rome, Michael Grant
- Why the allies won, Richard Overy
- The closing of the American mind, how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students, Allan Bloom
- From dawn to decadence, 500 years of western cultural life : 1500 to the present, Jacques Barzun
- Disraeli