I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Alan Taylor, American Colonies: The Settling of North America: ( transnational history )
Erin Thompson, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments: ( monuments are instructions )
Jeffrey A. Engel, When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War: ( hegemonic dreams )
Brooke Lindy Blower, Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper: ( snapshot of (white, cosmopolitan) diversity )
Jonathan D. Sarna, American Judaism: A History: ( two Jews, three opinions )
Andrew J. Bacevich, America's War for the Greater Middle East: ( controlling the oil )
Carolyn Woods Eisenberg, Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia: ( bad men )
Eric Klinenberg, 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed: ( a vulnerable nation )

Annette Gordon-Reed & Peter S. Onuf, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination: ( How Jefferson imagined himself )

Variations on William Carlos Williams’ This is Just to Say -- I like the point about the aggression and self-congratulation implicit in the original.

Confessions of a Playgirl editor: Discussion of how the magazine decided that women wouldn’t buy gay porn and how women can like visuals too (exhibit 2: Tumblr) but perhaps differently than most men.

Molly Templeton discusses AO3 on Salon by way of evaluating Game of Thrones fanfic:  Even praises the search engine.

( media consolidation, civil rights and the media, the unwinding of America, Lean In )