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| Aliber | Robert | Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, 7th Edition | 2015 | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Baptist | Edward | The Half Has Never Been Told | 2014 | Basic Books |
| Beard | Charles | An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States | 1913 | The Free Press |
| Beckert | Sven | Empire of Cotton: A Global History | 2015 | Vintage |
| Beckert | Sven | Slavery’s Capitalism | 2016 | Univ Pennsylvania Press |
| Berry | Daina | The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: the Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave | 2017 | Beacon Press |
| Berry | Daina | Enslaved Women in America: an Encyclopedia | 2012 | Greenwood |
| Blight | David | Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory | 2001 | Harvard University Press |
| Chang | Ha-Joon | 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism | 2010 | Bloomsbury Press |
| Chang | Ha-Joon | The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism | 2008 | Bloomsbury Press |
| Conason | Joe | It Can Happen Here | 2007 | St Martin’s Press |
| Deresiewicz | William | “It Didn’t Have to Be This Way,” The Atlantic, November 2021 | | |
| Diamond | Jared | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies | 2007 | W. W. Norton |
| Diamond | Jared | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | 2004 | Penguin |
| Dineen | Jacquline | Cotton and Silk | 1988 | Enslow Publishers |
| Ehrenreich | Barbara | This Land is Their Land | 2008 | Metropolitan Books |
| Foner | Eric | Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party | 1995 | Oxford University Press |
| Freeman | Joshua | Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World | 2018 | W. W. Norton |
| Fuentes | Carlos | The Buried Mirror; Reflections on Spain and the New World | 1992 | Houghton Mifflin |
| Genovese | Eugene | The World the Slaveholders Made | 1988 | Wesleyan University Press |
| Genovese | Eugene | Roll Jordan Roll | 1974 | Random House |
| Goldstone | Lawrence | Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution | 2005 | Walker Books |
| Goodheart | Adam | 1861: The Civil War Awakening | 2011 | Vintage |
| Griffin | Patrick | American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutiary Frontier | 2007 | Hill and Wang |
| Hall | Kermit | The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, 2nd Edition | 2005 | Oxford University Press |
| Hanson | Victor Davis | The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece | 2009 | Univ of California Press |
| Harari | Yuval Noah | Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind | 2014 | Harvill Secker |
| Hobsbawm | Eric | The Age of Revolution 1789 -1848 | 1996 | Vintage |
| Horne | Gerald | The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance of the Origins of the United States | 2014 | New York University Press |
| James | Margaret | Social Problems and Policy During the Puritan Revolution | 1966 | Routledge |
| Kolchin | Peter | American Slavery: 1619-1877 | 1993 | Harper Collins |
| Levine | Bruce | The Fall of the House of Dixie | 2013 | Random House |
| Levine | Bruce | Half Slave Half Free: the Roots of the Civil War, revised edition | 2005 | Hill and Wang |
| Lewis-Kraus | Gideon | “Free For All,” The New Yorker, November 8, 2021 | | |
| Manning | Richard | Against the Grain: How Agriculture Hijacked Civilization | 2004 | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
| McCoy | Alfred W. | In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power | 2017 | Haymarket Books |
| McCurry | Stephanie | Confederate Reckoning | 2010 | Harvard University Press |
| Piketty | Thomas | Capital in the Twenty-First Century | 2014 | Harvard University Press |
| Pilling | David | The Growth Delusion | 2018 | Crown Publishing |
| Pomeranz | Kenneth | The World Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy | 2005 | Routledge |
| Pomeranz | Kenneth | The Great Divergence | 2001 | Princeton University Press |
| Postman | Neil | The Disappearance of Childhood | 1982 | Delacorte Press |
| Preston | Diana | The Dark Defile: Britain’s Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan 1838-1841 | 2012 | Walker and Company |
| Remini | Robert | The Life of Andrew Jackson | 1988 | Perennial Classics |
| Remini | Robert | Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union | 1991 | W. W. Norton |
| Remini | Robert | At The Edge of the Precipice | 2010 | Basic Books |
| Rifkin | Jeremy | The End of Work | 1995 | G. P. Putnam and Sons |
| Roach | Mary | Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex | 2008 | W. W. Norton |
| Roberts | Alasdair | America’s First Great Depression | 2012 | Cornell University Press |
| Rosenberg | Chaim | Child Labor in America: A History | 2013 | McFarland |
| Rosenthal | Caitlin | Slavery’s Scientific Management: Masters and Managers | 2018 | Harvard University Press |
| Sublette | Ned and Constance | The American Slave Coast: a History of the Slave-Breeding Industry | 2016 | Lawrence Hill Books |
| Williams | Eric | Capitalism and Slavery | 1994 | Univ of North Carolina |
| Wills | Garry | The Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power | 2003 | Houghton Mifflin |
| Wills | Garry | Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence | 1978 | Doubleday |
| Zinn | Howard | A People’s History of the United States | 2005 | Harper Perennial |