American History Book List

American History books we have enjoyed in our homeschool. We like to use them in conjunction with the Story of Civilization audio books. Some of these are hard to find but I was able to track most of them down through Amazon, Thriftbooks and the local library.

Do you have other books you’ve enjoyed on the topic of American History? If yes, leave a note in the comments section!

Picture books

• D’Aulaire books: Leif the Lucky, Columbus, Pocahontas, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Buffalo Bill

• The Discovery of the Americas by Betsy and Giulio Maestro

• Encounter by Jane Yolen

• The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh

• Squanto’s Journey by Joseph Bruchac

• If you lived with the Iroquois by Ellen Levine

• If you sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern

• If you lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern

• Adventures in Colonial America books: Boston Tea Party, Journey to Monticello, Salem Days, The Farm, Jamestown, The Winter at Valley Forge by James E Knight

• The Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall

• Thee, Hannah by Marguerite de Angeli

• A More Perfect Union the Story of our Constitution by Betsy Maestro

• The 4th of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh

• Moses by Carole Boston Weatherford

• Life in the Old West book series

• Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg

• The Pioneers by Marie and Douglas Gorsline

• Thomas Jefferson a Picture Book Biography by James Cross Giblin 

• If you were there when they signed the constitution by Joan Holub

• Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow illustrated by Ted Rand

• If you grew up with Abraham Lincoln by Ann McGovern

• A Picture Book of Sacagawea by David A Adler

• Lewis and Clark by Steven Kroll

Chapter books

• Phoebe the Spy by Judith Berry Griffin

• The Year of the Horseless Carriage by Genevieve Foster

• The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds

• Pilgrim Stories by Margaret Pumphrey

• The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh

• Benjamin West and his Cat Grimalkin by Marguerite Henry

• Meet Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Cary

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

• Buffalo Bill by Frank L Beals

• Primary source: Copies of the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and the Constitution

Poetry

• A Book of Americans by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent

• Hand in Hand, an American History Through Poetry collected by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Saint Books

• Saint Isaac and the Indians by Milton Lomask

• Kateri Tekakwitha Mohawk Maiden by Evelyn M Brown 

• Father Marquette and the great rivers by August Derleth

• St. Katharine Drexel by Ellen Tarry

• Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity by Alma Power-Waters

• Mother Cabrini by Francis Parkinson Keyes

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