- Bodie, the town that belongs to ghosts, by Kevin Blake ; consultant, Brad Sturdivant, President, Bodie Foundation, Bridgeport, California
- A new history of the American South, edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; Laura F. Edwards and Jon F. Sensbach, associate editors
- Wild boy, the real life of the Savage of Aveyron, Mary Losure ; illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering
- Answering the cry for freedom, stories of African Americans and the American Revolution, Gretchen Woelfle ; illustrations by R. Gregory Christie
- Fifty ships that changed the course of history, a nautical history of the world, Ian Graham
- Incarnations, a history of India in fifty lives, Sunil Khilnani
- The sakura obsession, the incredible story of the plant hunter who saved Japan's cherry blossoms, Naoko Abe
- Jackie and the Mona Lisa, written by Debbie Rovin Murphy ; illustrated by Jen Bricking
- The library, a catalogue of wonders, Stuart Kells
- A brief history of timekeeping, the science of marking time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks, Chad Orzel
- Your guide to cemetery research, Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
- Imprisoned, the betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II, by Martin W. Sandler
- We are human animals, Rosie Haine
- Mongols, Nicole Helget
- The long walk, the true story of a trek to freedom, Slavomir Rawicz
- Doing nothing, a history of loafers, loungers, slackers and bums in America, Tom Lutz
- Wounded Tigris, a river journey through the cradle of civilization, Leon McCarron
- The tower of life, how Yaffa Eliach rebuilt her village in stories and photographs, by Chana Stiefel ; illustrated by Susan Gal
- Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed, Jared Diamond
- Fabulous fashions of the 1950s, Felicia Lowenstein Niven
- Alexandria, the city that changed the world, Islam Issa
- Control, the dark history and troubling present of eugenics, Adam Rutherford
- Sacred economics, money, gift and society in the age of transition, Charles Eisenstein
- How they choked, failures, flops, and flaws of the awfully famous, Georgia Bragg ; illustrated by Kevin O'Malley
- The founding of America, Sarah Gilman
- Focus on the Great Migration, Dr. Artika R. Tyner
- The Habsburgs, to rule the world, Martyn Rady
- Life during the Great Depression, by Wendy H. Lanier
- The printer, Christine Petersen
- The Underground Railroad, by Bonnie Bader ; with Addy stories by Connie Porter ; illustrated by Kelley McMorris
- Under Jerusalem, the buried history of the world's most contested city, Andrew Lawler
- Women of Colonial America, 13 stories of courage and survival in the New World, Brandon Marie Miller
- Roots, the saga of an American family, Alex Haley ; with a special introduction by Michael Eric Dyson and Alex Haley On the Writing of Roots
- What were the roaring twenties?, by Michele Mortlock ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- The Shipbuilder, Ann Heinrichs
- A kidnapped West, the tragedy of Central Europe, Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher and Edmund White
- The countryside in colonial America, George Capaccio
- España, a brief history of Spain, Giles Tremlett
- Mount Hood, a complete history ..., by Jack Grauer
- A history of architecture in 100 buildings, Dan Cruickshank
- Pocahontas, Samantha Bell
- The Underground Railroad, Natalie Hyde
- Rescue of the Bounty, disaster and survival in Superstorm Sandy, Michael J. Tougias and Douglas A. Campbell
- The age of astonishment, John Morris in the miracle century : from the Civil War to the Cold War, Bill Morris
- Washington, DC, history for kids, the making of a capital city with 21 activities, Richard Panchyk
- Ambushed!, the assassination plot against President Garfield, Gail Jarrow
- Genealogy, George G. Morgan
- The Great Depression, Elaine Landau
- A child's day, Bobbie Kalman & Tammy Everts
- The history book, written by Sufiya Ahmed, Peter Chrisp, Jenny Cox, Seun Matiluko, Andrea Mills