- Who's your Founding Father?, one man's epic quest to uncover the first, true Declaration of Independence, David Fleming
- Mawson's will, the greatest polar survival story ever written, by Lennard Bickel ; foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary
- Those tremendous mountains, the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition, David Freeman Hawke
- Caw pawa laakni, They are not forgotten : Sahaptian place names atlas of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla, Eugene S. Hunn, E. Thomas Morning Owl, Phillip E. Cash Cash, Jennifer Karson Engum ; with Daniel B. Haug, Roberta L. Conner, Bruce J. Rigsby, John M. Chess, Modesta J. Minthorn
- The broken heart of America, St. Louis and the violent history of the United States, Walter Johnson
- Heartwood, writing and photography by Rick Steber ; illustrations by Don Gray
- Burning the breeze, three generations of women in the American West, Lisa Hendrickson ; afterword by James E. Pepper
- The Jeffersonians, the visionary presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, Kevin R. C. Gutzman
- Breaking chains, slavery on trial in the Oregon Territory, R. Gregory Nokes
- The Jeffersonians, the visionary presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, Kevin R. C. Gutzman
- Oregon's Highway 99, Chuck Flood
- Bubble in the sun, the Florida boom of the 1920s and how it brought on the Great Depression, Christopher Knowlton
- River master, John Wesley Powell's legendary exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon, Cecil Kuhne
- Wagons west, the epic story of America's overland trails, Frank McLynn
- A woman of influence, the spectacular rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England, Vanessa Wilkie
- Fatal discord, Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind, Michael Massing
- Electric City, the lost history of Ford and Edison's American utopia, Thomas Hager
- Saga of Chief Joseph, Helen Addison Howard ; new introduction by Nicole Tonkovich ; maps and illustrations by George D. McGrath
- The Oregon and Overland Trail diary of Mary Louisa Black in 1865, written by Mary Louisa Black ; introduction and afterword by Marguerite Black ; contemporary comments and editing by Bert Webber
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States, Sarah Vowell
- Rebels against the Raj, Western fighters for India's freedom, Ramachandra Guha
- The address book, what street addresses reveal about identity, race, wealth, and power, Deirdre Mask
- No More Champagne, Churchill and His Money, David Lough
- Napoleon, solider of destiny, Michael Broers
- Gold and cattle country, by Herman Oliver ; edited by E. R. Jackman
- One fine day, Britain's empire on the brink, September 29, 1923, Matthew Parker
- Indivisible, Daniel Webster and the birth of American nationalism, Joel Richard Paul
- Teacher, preacher, soldier, spy, the civil wars of John R. Kelso, Christopher Grasso
- The zealot and the emancipator, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom, H.W. Brands
- The Grimkes, the legacy of slavery in an American family, Kerri K. Greenidge
- Dreams of the West, a history of the Chinese in Oregon, 1850-1950 = Elegang hua ren fen dou shi, 1850-1950, [translation to Chinese by Ren Hongbao]
- Revolutionary characters, what made the founders different, Gordon S. Wood
- Johnny Appleseed, the man, the myth, the American story, Howard Means
- The 1921 Tulsa race massacre, a photographic history, Karlos K. Hill ; foreword by Kevin Matthews
- Black diamonds, the rise and fall of an English dynasty, Catherine Bailey
- Empire of rubber, Firestone's scramble for land and power in Liberia, Gregg Mitman
- The Chinese question, the gold rushes and global politics, Mae Ngai
- Women's diaries of the westward journey, [collected by] Lillian Schlissel ; preface by Carl N. Degler
- Travels with myself and another, Martha Gellhorn
- Oregon 1859, a snapshot in time, Janice Marschner
- Pushed, miners, a merchant, and (maybe) a massacre, Ana Maria Spagna
- Cattle kingdom, the hidden history of the cowboy West, Christopher Knowlton
- Princess Margaret, a life of contrasts, Christopher Warwick
- American colonies, Alan Taylor ; [map illustrations by Jeffrey Ward]
- A peculiar paradise, a history of blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940, Elizabeth McLagan
- Revolutionary roads, searching for the war that made America independent...and all the places it could have gone terribly wrong, Bob Thompson
- Peace weavers, uniting the Salish coast through cross-cultural marriages, by Candace Wellman
- Seeing the elephant, the many voices of the Oregon Trail, Joyce Badgley Hunsaker
- The overland trail ;, the epic path of the pioneers to Oregon, by Agnes C. Laut ... with forty-nine illustrations from photographs, two maps and two diagrams
- The island at the center of the world, the epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped America, Russell Shorto