- Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
- James Madison: America’s First Politician / Jay Cost
- Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War / Lorien Foote
- Lions of the Dan: The Untold Story of Armistead’s Brigade / J. K. Brandau
- The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns / William Hobart Turner
- A Guide to Harriet Tubman’s Eastern Shore: The Old Home is Not There / Phillip Hesser
- The Giddings of the Chesapeake & Potomac: The Family and Descendants of James Francis Giddings / William C. Giddings, Jr.
- A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History / Francesca Morgan
- Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy / Gayle Jessup White
- Here Am I: Miscellaneous Meanderings, Meditations, Memoirs, and Melodramas / Daryl Cumber Dance
- Hook, Line, and Slinker: Fishing Legacies of Maritime Disasters in Maryland Bay Waters and Across the Chesapeake Region / Wayne Young
- King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South / Baker A. Rogers
- Falling / Rebekah Coxwell