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The series includes two Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes.

The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. Here is the publisher’s own description of this book: “What Hath God Wrought” is both a capacious narrative of a tumultuous era in American history and a heroic attempt at synthesizing a century and a half of historical writing about Jacksonian democracy, antebellum reform, and American expansion. In The New Yorker, Jill Lepore has a review of this massive tome. It is part of the Oxford History of the US series, now (hopefully) coming to completion. In a previous post, I noted the publication of Daniel Walker Howe’s new book, “ What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848” (Oxford $35).