The Washington Post Critics' Choice History for 2006

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

The Cold War: A New History

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68

Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War

The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Hand-Gun

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Witnesses of War: Children's Lives under the Nazis

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different