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OVERVIEW
| George Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 |
| Michael Hogan and Thomas Paterson, Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations |
EMPIRE AND EARLY AMERICA
| Anthony Pagden, Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and France c.1500-c.1800 |
| J.H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 |
| Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire |
FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR NEW REPUBLIC
| Jonathan Dull, A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution |
| Amy Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire |
| Matthew Guterl, American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation |
| Ussama Makdisi, Artilleries of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East |
| Eliga Gould, Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire |
AMERICAN EMPIRE AND MANIFEST DESTINY
| William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy |
| Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 |
| Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars |
| Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico |
| Paul Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines |
| Brian Rouleau, With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire |
| Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States |
| Andrew Rotter, Empire of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines |
PROGRESSIVISM AND WORLD WAR I
| Emily Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion 1890-1945 |
| Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism |
| Julia Irwin, Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening |
| Ian Tyrrell, Reforming the World: The Creation of America’s Moral Empire |
IMMIGRATION, LABOR, AND GATEKEEPING
| Julie Greene, The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal |
| Donna Gabaccia, Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective |
| Julian Lim, Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands |
THE INTERWAR PERIOD
| Eric Roorda, The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945 |
| Brooke Blower, Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture Between the World Wars |
| Kiran Klaus Patel, The New Deal: A Global History |
| Megan Black, The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power |
WORLD WAR II AND OCCUPATION
| John Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War |
| J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan |
| Susan Carruthers, The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace |
COLD WAR
| Christina Klein, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 |
| Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena |
| John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American Natural Security Policy |
| Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times |
| Thomas Field, From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era |
| Barbara Keys, Reclaiming Human Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s |
| Margaret Peacock, Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War |
| Paul Chamberlin, The Cold War’s Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace |
VIETNAM WAR
| Jeremy Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente |
| Seth Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957 |
| Jeremy Varon, Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies |
| Chris Appy, American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity |
GLOBALIZATION AND THE PRESENT
| Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through 20th Century Europe |
| Andrew McKevitt, Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America |
| Melani McAlister, The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals |