Method

• John Arnold. History: A Very Short Introduction (2000).

• John Lewis Gaddis. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2004).

• Edward Carr. What Is History? (1967).

• Bradley & Muller. Church History: An Introduction to Research Methods and Resources (2016).

• Carl Trueman. Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History (2010).

American History (General)

• David McCullough. 1776 (2005). 

• Schweikart & Allen. A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to America's Age of Entitlement, 15th ed. (2014).

• Paul Johnson. A History of the American People (1999).

• Bernard Bailyn. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1992).

• Gregg Singer. A Theological Interpretation of American History (2009).

• David Hackett Fischer. Albion’s Seed (1989). [How four migrations from the British isles in the colonial period created the culture of modern America]

• Paul Ingrassia. Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars (2013).

• Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845).

• David Talbot. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (2016).
  
  

Religion in American

• Christian Smith. Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (2001).

• Kristin Kobes Du Mez. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (2020).

• Megan Basham. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda (2024).

• D. G. Hart & John R. Muether. Seeking a Better Country: 300 Years of American Presbyterianism (2007).

• Feldmen, et. al. Reformed and Evangelical across Four Centuries: The Presbyterian Story in America (2022).

• Thomas Kidd. Baptists in America: A History (2015).

• George Marsden. Fundamentalism and American Culture (2022).

• David Wells. Reformed Theology in America (2009).

• Douglas Sweeney. The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement (2005).

• Mark Noll. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (2022).

• Carl Trueman. The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (2011).

• Daniel Hummel. The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation (2023).

• Miles Smith. Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War (2024).
  
  

Revolutionary War

• David Hackett Fischer. Paul Revere’s Ride (1994); Washington’s Crossing (2004)
  
  

Civil War

• Allen Guelzo. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2013); Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013). 

• Joanne Freeman. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War (2018).

• Mark Noll. The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006).
  
  

World War I

•  Barbara W. Tuchman. The Guns of August. (2008). 

• Philip Jenkins. The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade (2014).
  
  

World War II

• Ian Toll. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942, Trilogy (2012).
  
  

World History

• Jared Diamond. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1999).

• William McNeil. The Rise of the West (1992). [The best history of the world ever]

• Carroll Quigley. Tragedy and Hope (2004). [A history of 1890-1960 from the perspective of civilizational analyses. One of the best history books ever]

• Tamim Ansary. The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection (2019). [A history of the paradigms people have used over history. Best intro to history for normal people]

• Azar Gat. War in Human Civilization (2008)

• Amaury de Riencourt. Sex and Power in History (2014).

• Tom Holland. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (2019).

• Philip Jenkins. Kingdoms of This World: How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions (2024).

• David A. Andelman. A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today (2007).

• Thomas Sowell. Conquests and Cultures: An International History (1999). [Best anthropology book. Histories of the British, Native Americans, Africans and Slavs.]

• Jean Manco. Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (2021)

• Matthew White. Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History (2011).

• David Hackett Fischer. The Great Wave (1996). [A history of inflation over Western history and how you can use inflation to predict social collapses, which occur every 250 years]