The best books on Ancient Greece include The Histories by Herodotus, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Persian Fire, The Greeks by H.D.F. Kitto, Introducing the Ancient Greeks and The Odyssey.

The best books on Ancient Rome include SPQR, Rubicon, The Twelve Caesars, I, Claudius, Caesar: Life of a Colossus and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

The best books on Ancient Egypt include The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs, The Woman Who Would Be King, The Complete Tutankhamun, Ramesses and The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt.

The best books on the Inca Empire include The Last Days of the Incas, Turn Right at Machu Picchu, The Conquest of the Incas, The Incas by Terence D’Altroy, The Conquest of Peru and Lost City of the Incas.

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.