| #2 |  1776
| 4.04 | 148 reads | |
| #3 |  American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
| 4.16 | 108 reads | |
| #4 |  Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech
| 3.75 | 2 reads | |
| #5 |  Hiroshima
| 4.1 | 116 reads | |
| #6 |  A Short History of Nearly Everything
| 4.24 | 587 reads | |
| #7 |  Washington: A Life
| 4.4 | 64 reads | |
| #8 |  American Slavery, American Freedom
| 4 | 4 reads | |
| #9 |  Alexander Hamilton
| 4.41 | 170 reads | |
| #10 |  Thomas Jefferson the art of power
| 3.87 | 36 reads | |
| #11 |  Common Sense
| 3.86 | 59 reads | |
| #12 |  The Burden of Southern History
| 4.5 | 2 reads | |
| #13 |  Personal Memoirs
| 4.25 | 2 reads | |
| #14 |  Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
| 3.93 | 8 reads | |
| #15 |  Grant
| 4.47 | 55 reads | |
| #16 |  The Strange Career of Jim Crow
| 4 | 2 reads | |
| #17 |  The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
| 4.54 | 18 reads | |
| #18 |  California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History
| 4 | 1 read | |
| #19 |  Loving vs. Virginia
| 4.5 | 4 reads | |
| #20 |  Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
| 3.63 | 18 reads | |
| #21 |  The King of California The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
| 4 | 1 read | |
| #22 |  The Wright Brothers
| 4.08 | 77 reads | |
| #23 |  Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
| 4.24 | 25 reads |