Histories:

• NOW WE ARE ENEMIES (1960)
• BEAT THE LAST DRUM: The Siege of Yorktown 1781 (1963)
• ONE SMALL CANDLE: The Pilgrims' First Year in America (1963)
• THE MAN FROM MONTICELLO: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson (1969)
• THE MAN WHO DARED THE LIGHTNING (1971)
• BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: A Biography in His Own Words (1972)
• THE FORGOTTEN VICTORY: The Battle for New Jersey --- 1780 (1973)
• THE FIRST STROKE: Lexington, Concord, and the Beginning of the American Revolution (1978)
• COWPENS: "DOWNRIGHT FIGHTING": The Story of Cowpens (1988)
• 1776: Year of Illusions (1996)
• DUEL: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, And The Future Of America (2000)
• THE ILLUSION OF VICTORY: America in World War I (2003)
• THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE (2003)
• WASHINGTON'S SECRET WAR: THe Hidden History of Valley Force (2005)
• THE PERILS OF PEACE: America’s Struggle to Survive After Yorktown (2007)
• THE NEW DEALERS' WAR: FDR and the War Within World War II (2008)
• IRISH AMERICAN CHRONICLE (2009)
• THE INTIMATE LIVES OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS (2010)
• A DISEASE IN THE PUBLIC MIND: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War (2013)
• LIBERTY! The American Revolution (2014)
• FRANKLIN (2014)
• THE GREAT DIVIDE: The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation (2015)

Novels:

• THE GOD OF LOVE (1963)
• ALL GOOD MEN (1964)
• RULERS OF THE CITY (1980)
• PROMISES TO KEEP (1980)
• THE OFFICER'S WIVES (1982)
• THE SPOILS OF WAR (1986)
• OVER THERE (1992)
• THE WAGES OF FAME: A Novel of the Civil War (1999)
• WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER (2001)
• DREAMS OF GLORY (2002)
• A PASSIONATE GIRL (2008)
• THE SECRET TRIAL OF ROBERT E. LEE (2010)
• REMEMBER THE MORNING (2011)
• TIME AND TIDE: A Novel of World War II (2013)
• LOYALTIES: A Novel of World War II (2014)
• THE HEART OF LIBERTY (2014)