Here are recommended reads about the United States — perfect for the history buff on your gift list, or anyone looking to learn more about how the U.S got to where it is today.

While you could fill a library with biographies, autobiographies and other nonfiction books about U.S. presidents, the stories of their wives and families often get pushed aside. However, with ...

A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...

The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose “A Place Called Yellowstone” chronicles a landscape “capable of bridging ideological divides.” By Jennifer Schuessler Randall K. Wilson, ...

Yoni Appelbaum kicks off “Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity,” his insightful book about our national housing crisis, with a personal story that will ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The Undiscovered Country,” by Paul Andrew Hutton (Dutton) "The Undiscovered Country," by Paul Andrew Hutton (Dutton) “The true point of view in the history ...

Amid last week’s parade of proclamations about beardo generals and Navy-vessel aesthetics, there was one announcement that felt wholesomely, uncomplicatedly good: “Reading Rainbow” is back — at least ...