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2020 October 11
  • Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by John Ferling
  • America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by Edward T. O'Donnell
  • The American President by Philip B. Kunhardt
  • A Basic History of the United States, Volume 1: The Colonial Experience 1607-1774 by Clarence B. Carson
  • A Basic History of the United States, Volume 2: The Beginning of the Republic, 1775-1825 by Clarence B. Carson
  • A Basic History of the United States, Volume 3: The Sections and the Civil War 1826-1877 by Clarence B. Carson
  • Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
  • Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
  • Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
  • The History of the United States of America During the Administration of Jefferson and Madison by Henry Adams
  • Inventing a Nation by Gore Vidal
  • Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism by Susan Dunn
  • John Adams by David McCullough
  • The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson by William Howard Adams
  • Revolutionary Characters by Gordon S. Wood

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  • Brotherhood of the Revolution by Joseph Ellis
  • The Cabinet Politician: The Postmasters General, 1829-1909 by Dorothy G. Fowler
  • The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr.
  • The Failure of the Founding Fathers by Bruce Ackerman
  • Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq by Thomas J. Craughwell
  • Family of Freedom by Kenneth T. Walsh
  • Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate by Gregory Koger
  • The First Forty Years of Washington Society by Margaret Bayard Smith
  • First Ladies by Margaret Truman
  • The founding fathers and the politics of character by Andrew S. Trees
  • The Founding Fathers Reconsidered by R.B. Bernstein
  • The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation by Thomas Fleming
  • The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer
  • History of American Presidential Elections 1789-1968, volume 1 edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr.
  • The History of the United States, 2nd Edition, part 2 by Allen C. Guelzo
  • Lives of the Presidents by Kathleen Krull
  • A Nation Rising by Kenneth C. Davis
  • The Origins of American Public Finance: Debates over Money, Debt, and Taxes in the Constitutional Era, 1776-1836 by Donald R. Stabile
  • The People and the Ballot by Joshua Kaplan
  • Political parties and American political development: from the age of Jackson to the age of Lincoln by Michael F. Holt
  • Presidential Campaigns by Paul F. Boller
  • Presidential Courage by Michael Beschloss
  • Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence by Joseph Ellis
  • Secret Lives of the US Presidents by Cormac O'Brien
  • A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing by Michael Farquhar
  • Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians by Robert W. Merry

    Constitutional Convention
  • The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison by James Madison, Edward Larson & Michael Winship
  • Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution by Richard Brookhiser
  • The great debate: advocates and opponents of the American Constitution by Thomas L. Pangle
  • Original Meanings by Jack Rakove
  • Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Mary Sarah Bilder
  • The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution by David O. Stewart
  • Triumvirate: The Unlikely Alliance That Saved the Constitution and United the Nation by Bruce Chadwick

    Washington
  • The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government by Fergus M. Bordewich
  • James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard Labunski

    Adams
  • America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918 by Richard Brookhiser
  • First family: Abigail & John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
  • The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy by Jeffrey L. Pasley
  • John Adams by John Patrick Diggins and Arthur M. Schlesinger
  • The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein

    Jefferson
  • The Barbary Wars by Frank Lambert
  • Diagnosing Jefferson by Norm Ledgin
  • The essential Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis; Landon Y. Jones, editor
  • The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court by Cliff Sloan & David McKean
  • Jefferson's war: America's first war on terror, 1801-1805 by Joseph Wheelan
  • The Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Fleming
  • "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power by Garry Wills
  • The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson by William Howard Adams
  • Wars in Barbary by Donald Chidsey
  • Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

    Madison
  • A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison by Paul Jennings
  • James Madison by Richard Brookhiser
  • James Madison by Garry Wills
  • Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Mary Sarah Bilder
  • A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
  • A perfect union: Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation by Catherine Allgor
  • Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

    Monroe
  • James Monroe by Gary Hart
  • Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

    Quincy Adams
  • John Quincy Adams by Robert Vincent Remini
  • The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein

    Jackson
  • Andrew Jackson by Sean Wilentz

    Van Buren
  • Martin Van Buren by Ted Widmer

    Harrison
  • William Henry Harrison by Gail Collins

    Tyler
  • John Tyler by Gary May

    Polk
  • A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent by Robert W. Merry
  • James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
  • Polk: the man who transformed the presidency and America by Walter R. Borneman
  • Robert J. Walker, Imperialist by William Edward Dodd

    Taylor
  • Zachary Taylor by John S.D. Eisenhower

    Fillmore
  • Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
  • Millard Fillmore by Paul Finkelman

    Buchanan
  • James Buchanan by Jean H. Baker

    Lincoln
  • Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House by Elizabeth Keckley
  • The Life of President Lincoln by Stefan Lorant
  • Lincoln by Gore Vidal

    Hamilton
  • Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
  • Alexander Hamilton: the Outsider by Jean Fritz

    Clay
  • Henry Clay by Robert Remini

    Burr
  • Burr by Gore Vidal

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