New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. A book which combines history and biography as it "interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise and fall and rise again. . . set amid the battle for woman suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation (10 million strong by midcentury) in the age of Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War, and the bitter fight that pitted black men against white women in the struggle to win the right to vote." Illustrated with photographs. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. xv, 531 pp. ISBN: 0-394555368.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A massive, but well-researched, well-written and innovative look at Lincoln's political abilities by this Pulitzer Prize winning author - an account of how Lincoln brought his former rivals into his cabinet and used their political gifts to preserve the Union during the Civil War. Photographs. Extensive notes, index. 916 pp. ISBN: 0-684824906.

New York: Henry Holt, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "blend of history, myth, and misadventure, [this] captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs, these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek - from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges - Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget." Maps and illustrations. Notes on sources, bibliography, index. xii, 445 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0805076035.

New York: Dutton, (2021) d. Hardcover first edition - \A story that starts out with "a platoon of mostly 19-year-old boys sent to Afghanistan, and an experience that ends abruptly in catastrophe. Their part of the story folds into the next: inexorably linked to those soldiers and never comprehensively reported before is the U.S. Department of Defense's quest to build the world's most powerful biometrics database, with the ability to identify, monitor, catalog, and police people all over the world. . . Part war story, part legal drama, it is about identity in the age of identification. . .And about the power of a burgeoning surveillance state." Illustrated with color photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. 387 pp. ISBN: 978-1524746667.

Westfield, MA: Westfield State College, 1995. First edition - Includes articles on the Hoosac Tunnel, William Lloyd Garrison, Boston's Back Bay and the Puritan missions to the Indians of Thomas Mayhew, Jr and John Eliot plus book reviews and book notes. 103 pp .

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which warns how the growing sophistication of global crime organizations is robbing us not only of our money but also threatening our way of life. Index. 210 pp. . ISBN: 0-684818159.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. Hardcover first edition - A look at the summer of 1964 - the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the beginning of the Vietnam War, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the lead-up to a dramatic election - and the song, written by Marvin Gaye and recorded by Martha and the Vandelles, which took on many meanings as the country changed. The NY Times review commented about this book "For all the seriousness of Kurlanskys cultural entanglements, it is nevertheless a delight to experience his sophisticated sense of play and, at times, his outright wicked sense of humor. Illustrated with photographs. Includes a time line of 1964, a discography of the song, bibliography and index. xxi, 263 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487224.

Salt Lake City: Hawkes, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - A true story of a family of four in the 1930s. They knew the glory and the sorrow of the full spectrum of life.

New York: The H. W. Wilson Company 1986. First edition - A title in the Reference Shelf - a series which compiles essays, addresses and excerpts from books on current issues and social trends in the United States and other countries. This includes sections on the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the war in Cambodia, the Veterans Memorial and POWs. Among the contributors are George P. Schultz, Norman Podhorotz, Kent Anderson, James Chace and more. Bibliography. 161 pp. ISBN: 0-824207246.

New York: Seabury Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A significant but surprisingly hard to find book, which describes movements throughout American history in which ordinary citizens, dissatisfied with the established system (or lack of it) have taken law and order into their own hands - from historical examples like the Salem witch trials to gold rush California through the Ku Klux Klan and modern examples like the Black Panthers. The epilogue notes that few institutions seem to have as bright a future in the US as vigilantism - a comment which is even more true now than it was at time this book was written. Sources and suggested reading, index. vii, 181 pp. ISBN: 0-816431027.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed and well-researched account of the first year of the American Revolution, and especially of George Washington and the fledgling Continental Army, by this award winning author (the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, among others.) Illustrated with a frontispiece and many glossy plates, including 16 in full color (among the full-color illustrations are several double-page maps.) Source notes, bibliography, index. 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-7432-26712.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed and well-researched account of the first year of the American Revolution, and especially of George Washington and the fledgling Continental Army, by this award winning author (the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, among others.) Illustrated with a frontispiece and many glossy plates, including 16 in full color (among the full-color illustrations are several double-page maps.) Source notes, bibliography, index. 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-7432-26712.

New York & London: New York University Press & University of London Press, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A 'discursive, entertaining, and highly readable book' which takes a new look at the frontier myth and argues that the American experience has been most decisively molded by transatlantic influences. Published posthumously, in the same year as the author's untimely death at the age of 43. Notes, bibliography, index. 348 pp.

Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which re-evaluates the negative impressions of the Chinese in the United States before the first exclusionary account, and which concludes that it was not California which was affected. Notes, bibliographical note, index. x, 259 pp

New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

New York: Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin, (2003). Hardcover - A book for older children which "describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on Philadephia's residents, relating the epidemic to the major social and political events of the day and to 18th-century medical beliefs and practices. . . [He] spotlights the heroic role of Philadelphia's free blacks in combating the disease, and the Constitutional crisis that President Washington faced when he was forced to leave the cityand all his paperswhile escaping the deadly contagion. A Newbery Honor Book and nominated National Book Award Illustrated with fascinating archival prints. Map, sources, index. Slightly over-sized format. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-395776082.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. dj. Hardcover - A study of the private world of John Adams - patriot and second President of the United States - and his descendants, based in large part on letters and diaries. Photographs, sources, index. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5031725.

Boston: Directors of the Old South Work, nd (ca 1890). Hardcover - Facsimile edition containing 25 of the leaflets published by the Old South Church in Boston. The leaflets were reprints of significant documents, speeches, narratives, and more, most related to American history but also some in England and Europe like the Dutch Declaration of Independence, a speech by Cromwell, etc. Included is this volume are speeches by Cotton Mather, George Washington, Governor Hutchinson, an essay by John Eliot on "Indian Grammar Begun", the Monroe Doctrine, ship-papers and more. Each leaflet is numbered individually.

New York: The H. W. Wilson Company 1986. First edition - A title in the Reference Shelf - a series which compiles essays, addresses and excerpts from books on current issues and social trends in the United States and other countries. This includes sections on the United Nations at 40, reaffirming the past and shaping the future. Among the contributors are Ronald Reagan, Mario M. Cuomo, David Rockefeller, Henry Cisneros, Vernon Jordan and more. Biographical notes, bibliography. 198 pp.

Norwalk, Ohio: The Lanning Printing Company, State Printers, 1893. Hardcover first edition - Consists almost entirely of charts and tables. Index. 430 pp.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the American experiment in imperialism, from the Louisiana purchase to the annexation of Hawaii and the occupation of Japan and Korea and the islands of the South Pacific and the Philippines after World War II. Maps. Sources, notes, index. ix, 460 pp.