- Heavy, an American memoir, by Kiese Laymon
- A nation without borders, the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910, Steven Hahn
- The bone and sinew of the land, America's forgotten black pioneers & the struggle for equality, Anna-Lisa Cox
- The cause, the American Revolution and its discontents, 1773-1783, Joseph J. Ellis
- The rise and fall of the second American republic, Reconstruction, 1860-1920, Manisha Sinha
- Scorpions' dance, the president, the spymaster, and Watergate, Jefferson Morley
- Behold, America, a history of "America first" and "the American dream", Sarah Churchwell
- Flee north, a forgotten hero and the fight for freedom in slavery's borderland, Scott Shane
- Chia and the fox man, an Alaskan Dena'ina fable, retold by Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater ; illustrated by Mindy Dwyer
- All the white friends I couldn't keep, hope--and hard pills to swallow--about fighting for black lives, Andre Henry
- President McKinley, architect of the American century, Robert W. Merry
- The manicurist's daughter, a memoir, Susan Lieu
- James Madison, a life reconsidered, Lynne Cheney
- The last campaign, Sherman, Geronimo, and the War for America, H. W. Brands
- Black ghost of empire, the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation, Kris Manjapra
- Founding martyr, the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero, Christian Di Spigna
- América, the epic story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898, Robert Goodwin
- American rule, how a nation conquered the world but failed its people, Jared Yates Sexton
- The crooked path to abolition, Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery Constitution, James Oakes
- Jewish soldiers in the Civil War, the Union Army, Adam D. Mendelsohn ; foreword by Adrienne DeArmas
- A place called America, a story of the land and people, Jennifer Thermes
- Too hot to handle, a global history of sex education, Jonathan Zimmerman
- The Second Amendment, a biography, Michael Waldman
- An American story, by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Dare Coulter
- Part of our lives, a people's history of the American public library, Wayne A. Wiegand
- Places of mind, a life of Edward Said, Timothy Brennan
- Short nights of the Shadow Catcher, the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis, Timothy Egan
- The Constitution, an introduction, Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen
- Ida B. Wells, voice of truth, educator, feminist, and anti-lynching civil rights leader, Michelle Duster ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- Girl in black and white, the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement, Jessie Morgan-Owens
- God's hand on America, divine providence in the modern era, Michael Medved
- The broken constitution, Lincoln, slavery, and the refounding of America, Noah Feldman
- Washington, a history of our national city, Tom Lewis
- Buses are a comin', memoir of a freedom rider, Charles Person, with Richard Rooker
- Republic of detours, how the New Deal paid broke writers to rediscover America, Scott Borchert
- A peculiar indifference, the neglected toll of violence on black America, Elliott Currie
- The 1619 Project, a new origin story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein
- Constructing a nervous system, a memoir, Margo Jefferson
- The escape artist, Helen Fremont
- The lion and the fox, two rival spies and the secret plot to build a Confederate Navy, Alexander Rose
- The three mothers, how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation, Anna Malaika Tubbs
- The Old West, Stephen G. Hyslop
- Asian American histories of the United States, Catherine Ceniza Choy
- A worse place than hell, how the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg changed a nation, John Matteson
- Vanished, the sixty-year search for the missing men of World War II, Wil S. Hylton
- The signal flame, a novel, Andrew Krivák
- American enterprise, a history of business in America, edited by Evie Righter ; modern perspectives sections edited by Andy Serwer ; foreword by John L. Gray ; introduction by David K. Allison ; contributions by Nancy Davis, Kathleen G. Frantz, Peter Liebhold
- Red paint, the ancestral autobiography of a Coast Salish punk, Sasha taqwšäblu LaPointe
- Pinkerton's great detective, the amazing life and times of James McParland, Beau Riffenburgh
- Unexampled courage, the blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring, Richard Gergel