Books like The American West by Dee Alexander Brown

A sweeping late‑nineteenth‑century cattle drive from Texas to Montana follows former Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and William F. Call as they confront the American West's myths, love, and violence in this epic of adventure and friendship.

John Keegan’s sweeping study traces warfare from prehistoric times to the present, exploring tactics, technology, logistics, and the cultural dimensions that shape conflict.

Nathaniel Philbrick's Sea of Glory: A Story of Exploration, Discovery, and the Naming of the New World

A detailed examination of how American housing patterns, especially the rise of suburbia, have shaped social behavior, economic mobility, and racial segregation across the 20th century.

A biography of the physicists who sought a unified theory of physics.

In the tradition of John Hersey's Hiroshima, journalist Jasper Becker's penetrating account of China's four-year famine uncovers the truth behind one of the darkest chapters in history. Hungry Ghosts is the horrific story of the state-sponsored terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder during Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward," an attempt at utopian engineering gone wrong. This is the unforgettable story of the century's greatest human rights disaster, in which more people died than in Stalin's purges and the Holocaust put together. Becker conducted hundreds of interviews and spent years immersed in painstaking detective work to examine the unprecedented madness that plagued China between 1958 and 1962. For the first time since it was so ruthlessly and categorically erased from history, Becker unearths what really happened during these years, and how the famine and terror could have been kept a secret for so long.

Uses many sources to portray the diversity of the American frontier of the 1800s.

Thomas Edison -- King Gilette -- Adolph Zukor -- Mary Kay Ash -- Frederick Weyerhaeuser -- Frank Purdue -- John D. Rockefeller -- De Witt Clinton -- J.P. Morgan -- Alfred P. Sloan -- Samuel Colt -- Andrew Carnegie -- Henry Ford -- P.T. Barnum -- A.T. Stewart -- Montgomery Ward -- Samuel F.B. Morse -- David Sarnoff.

Examines how American families have evolved across three centuries, covering Indigenous peoples, enslaved people, and immigrants and their adaptation to social change.