World History
Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World, (New York, NY: Verso: 2002).
Jane Burbank, and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991, (New York, NY: Vintage, 1996).
Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, (New York, NY: Little, Brown, & Co.: 1890).
Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).
David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004).
History Theory
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, (New York, NY: Free Press, 1992).
Georg G. Iggers, Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge, (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1997).
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party, (London, UK: Workers' Educational Association, 1848).
Karl Marx , Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. I. The Process of Capitalist Production, (Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr and Co., 1906).
Edward W. Said, Orientalism, (New York City, NY: Pantheon Books, 1978).
Historical Memory
Margaret MacMillan, Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History. (New York, NY: The Modern Library, 2010).
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried, (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1990).
Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale, (New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1991).
Africa
Andrew Zimmerman, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).
Asia
Gregg Brazinsky, Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy, (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
James M. Carter, Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968. (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press: 2008)
Thomas J. Christensen, Worse than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 2011).
John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000).
George C. Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2002).
David Kang, East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2012).
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).
Zheng Wang, Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations, (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1983).
Japan Examined: Perspectives on Modern Japanese History, ed. Harry Wray and Hillary Conroy, (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1983).
Europe
Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1998).
E. P. Thomson, "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century." Past & Present No. 50 (February, 1971).
Middle East
James A. Baker III, and Lee H. Hamilton, The Iraq Study Group Report, (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2006).
Eva Bellin. “Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring.” Comparative Politics 44 no. 2 (January 2012).
Adeed Dawisha. Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009).
Beshara Doumani, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasats in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Pres: 1995).
Lorenzo Kimball. The Changing Pattern of Political Power in Iraq, 1958 to 1971, (New York, NY: Robert Speller & Sons, Publishers, 1972).
Stephen Kinze, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003).
Phebe Marr. The Modern History of Iraq, (Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 2012).
United States
David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1993).
Paul A. Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, & the Philippines, (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
Jerry Lembcke, The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2000).
Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion 1890-1945, (New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1982).
William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2009).
Cold War
Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2009).
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005).
David E. Hoffman, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, (New York, NY: Doubleday, 2009).
Melvyn P. Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union and The Cold War (New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2007).
Ralph B. Levering, Vladimir O. Pechatnov, Verena Botzenhart-Viehe, C. Earl Edmondson, Debating the Origins of the Cold War: American and Russian Perspectives, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001).
Lorenz M. Luthi, The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 2008).
Ronald E. Powaski, March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present, (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1987).