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Period

History of the Americas

c. 15,000 BCE–present

The History of the Americas covers Indigenous societies before European conquest and the colonial, revolutionary, national and modern histories of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. It includes Mesoamerican civilisations, European empires, slavery, independence movements, territorial expansion, civil wars, migration, dictatorship and social change.

Its broad scope allows readers to move between United States, Latin American, Indigenous and imperial histories without treating one modern nation as the whole of the Americas. Individual periods, wars and regional histories then bring particular experiences into sharper focus.

Series

Series about History of the Americas (4 series)

The Culper Ring in Order

by Roseanna M. White 3 books 4.7(678)

The Culper Ring series traces a fictional family legacy of espionage across three American conflicts: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Secret correspondence, divided loyalties and inherited codes connect generations of spies who must decide what they are prepared to sacrifice for country,…

Narratives of Empire in Order

by Gore Vidal 5 books 4.3(236)

Gore Vidal’s seven-volume Narratives of Empire sequence follows the United States from the revolutionary generation to the Cold War, combining the lives of the fictional Schuyler, Sanford and Day families with presidents, senators, journalists and political operators. The novels treat public history as a contest over power, reputation…

The Foxes of Harrow in Order

by Frank Yerby 2 books 4.0(918)

The two Harrow novels trace the rise and aftermath of a Louisiana plantation dynasty across the destruction of the slaveholding order. The Foxes of Harrow begins with Stephen Fox arriving in New Orleans in 1825 and building wealth, status and the plantation of Harrow inside a society structured…

Leatherstocking Tales in Order

by James Fenimore Cooper 5 books 3.7(135,117)

The Leatherstocking Tales follow Natty Bumppo across a life spent between Indigenous allies, colonial war, settlement and the westward movement of the early United States. Published out of narrative order, the five novels move from his youth at Otsego Lake in The Deerslayer through the French and Indian…

Books

30 Best Novels About the History of the Americas

Non-Fiction

30 Best Non-Fiction Books About the History of the Americas

Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.