CATHAY: A Journey in Search of Old China (1991)

KILLING THE WHITE MAN'S INDIAN: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century (1996)

MY MOTHER'S GHOST (2000)

BOUND FOR CANAAN: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America (2006)

WASHINGTON: The Making of the American Capital (2009)

AMERICA'S GREAT DEBATE: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise that Preserved the Union (2012)

THE FIRST CONGRESS: How James Madison, George Washington and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government (2016)