Hilariously Informative: Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail

Meaningfully Discomforting: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Of Assassins and Aliens, or, The Mundane Present

Comprehensive Yet Digestible: Jill Lepore’s These Truths

A Poignant and Personal Story of Slavery and Its Aftermath: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon

Well, Yeah: Jeffrey A. Auerbach‘s Imperial Boredom

Seasonal Affectation: The Curious Case of Romanticizing Weather in History

Riveting and Insightful: Peter Stark’s Astoria

A History of Ideas in Graphic Illustration: Jonathan Hennessey and Aaron McConnell’s The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation