The best books on the Maya include Breaking the Maya Code, The Maya by Michael D. Coe, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, A Forest of Kings, Jungle of Stone and The Ancient Maya.

The best books on the Aztecs include Fifth Sun, Aztecs: An Interpretation, The Broken Spears, The Conquest of New Spain, When Montezuma Met Cortés and The Aztecs by Michael E. Smith.

The best books on the Trail of Tears include Trail of Tears by John Ehle, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears, Jacksonland, Unworthy Republic, An American Betrayal and The Journal of Jesse Smoke.

The best books on Native American history include Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, 1491, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Lakota America and Native Nations.

The best books on the Wild West include Lonesome Dove, Empire of the Summer Moon, The Last Stand, Blood and Thunder, True Grit and Tombstone.

The best books on the California Gold Rush include The World Rushed In, The Age of Gold, The Shirley Letters, Days of Gold, They Saw the Elephant and Roaring Camp.

The best books on Prohibition include Last Call, Boardwalk Empire, The Poisoner’s Handbook, Get Capone, The Wettest County in the World and Bootleg.

The best books on the Roaring Twenties include Only Yesterday, One Summer: America, 1927, The Great Gatsby, Flapper, Careless People and Anything Goes.

The best books on the Great Depression include The Great Crash 1929, Hard Times, Freedom from Fear, Lords of Finance, The Forgotten Man and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

The best books on the Dust Bowl include The Worst Hard Time, The Grapes of Wrath, Out of the Dust, The Four Winds, Dust Bowl by Donald Worster and Children of the Dust Bowl.