• The best books on The US Cabinet - The Process of Government under Jefferson by Noble Cunningham
  • The best books on The US Cabinet - The Politics of the US Cabinet by Jeffrey E. Cohen
  • The best books on The US Cabinet - Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • The best books on The US Cabinet - Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
  • The best books on The US Cabinet - The Man Who Ran Washington by Peter Baker & Susan Glasser

The best books on The US Cabinet, recommended by Lindsay Chervinsky

In contrast to many other countries, the secretaries who serve in the United States cabinet aren’t chosen from among the country’s elected officials but entirely reflect the president’s personal choices. Here, presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky, author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, talks us through the role of the cabinet and recommends which books to read to understand more about it.

  • The best books on The Harlem Renaissance - Harlem Shadows by Claude McKay
  • The best books on The Harlem Renaissance - Passing by Nella Larsen
  • The best books on The Harlem Renaissance - Cane by Jean Toomer
  • The best books on The Harlem Renaissance - When Harlem Was in Vogue by David Levering Lewis
  • The best books on The Harlem Renaissance - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

The best books on The Harlem Renaissance, recommended by William J. Maxwell

It was a golden age for American culture, a flourishing of Black literature, music and the arts that exploded in the 1910s and lasted through to the Great Depression. It was focused on Harlem, the area of New York City above Central Park, but its origins and its impact were much, much broader. William J. Maxwell, Professor of English and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, recommends some of the best books on the Harlem Renaissance.

  • The best books on The Supreme Court of the United States - The American Supreme Court by Robert G. McCloskey
  • The best books on The Supreme Court of the United States - John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court by R. Kent Newmyer
  • The best books on The Supreme Court of the United States - Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic by R. Kent Newmyer
  • The best books on The Supreme Court of the United States - The Dred Scott Case by Don Fehrenbacher
  • The best books on The Supreme Court of the United States - Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
  • The best books on The Supreme Court of the United States - Justice Lewis F. Powell: A Biography by John Jeffries

The best books on The Supreme Court of the United States, recommended by Michael Klarman

It may be nice to think of America’s Supreme Court justices as neutral interpreters of the law, but the reality is that they are a reflection of the cultural and historical moment in which they operate. Legal scholar and author Michael Klarman, Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School, recommends the best books to learn more about the Supreme Court of the United States and its history.

  • The Best 19th-Century American Novels - Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
  • The Best 19th-Century American Novels - Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • The Best 19th-Century American Novels - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs & Koritha Mitchell (editor)
  • The Best 19th-Century American Novels - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • The Best 19th-Century American Novels - The Marrow of Tradition by Charles Chesnutt

The Best 19th-Century American Novels, recommended by Nathan Wolff

In the novels of the 19th century, the United States comes alive with all its contradictions and complications. Nathan Wolff, a professor of English at Tufts and author of Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Ageintroduces us to his picks of the best 19th-century American novels, including two works of historical fiction and a memoir that influenced the novel form.

  • The best books on Immigration and Race - Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola
  • The best books on Immigration and Race - The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah
  • The best books on Immigration and Race - Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai
  • The best books on Immigration and Race - Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia
  • The best books on Immigration and Race - Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda by Jean Guerrero

The best books on Immigration and Race, recommended by Reece Jones

In a series of books, Reece Jones, Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawaii, has explored the impact of borders on our lives. In his latest book, White Borders, he delves into the history of immigration and race in the United States, and explains the connection between the two. Here, he recommends the best books he’s read on the topic and explains why he’s not optimistic about the future.