Nicholas Guyatt was educated at Cambridge and Princeton, where he received his PhD in History. He taught at Princeton, Simon Fraser University, and the University of York before taking up his current post at Cambridge in 2014. He is the author of seven books, includingBind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation(2016),The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison(2022) and, with co-author Christa Dierksheide,Jefferson's Wolf: A Founding Fathers Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery.(2026).

• 1: Joyce E. Chaplin: Before the United States 2: Honor Sachs: The American Revolutions 3: Nicholas Guyatt: The Path to Peace, 1790-1820 4: Christa Dierksheide: The Antebellum Era 5: Justene Hill Edwards: Slavery and Antislavery 6: Ari Kelman: The Civil War and Reconstruction 7: Karine Walther: U.S. Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century 8: Chad L. Williams: Progress and its Discontents: The United States, 1880-1930 9: Kathryn Olmsted and Eric Rauchway: From Depression to Civil Rights: 1929-1968 10: William P. Jones: The Civil Rights Movement 11: Ellen Wu: Migration in American Life 12: Penny Von Eschen: The United States in the World from 1898 to the present 13: Leslie Butler: Ideas, Thought, and Culture in the United States 14: Geraldo Cadava: "The Nation is sick": The United States in the late twentieth century 15: Malinda Maynor Lowery: American Indians in the American Century 16: N. D. B. Connolly: Recounting: the United States since 2000-2020

In this lavishly illustrated volume, stellar historians have written brilliantly incisive essays on American history that both challenge conventional wisdom and illuminate hidden corners of the country's past. A gift to the American republic on its 250th anniversary that will endure.