General history
Hwang, Kyung Moon. A History of Korea. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Lee, Injae, Owen Miller, Jinhoon Park, Yi Hyun-Hae, and Michael D. Shin, eds. Korean History in Maps: From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Lee, Peter, William Theodore de Bary, Yongho Ch’oe, and Hugh H. W. King, eds. Sources of Korean Tradition, Vol. 1: From Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Lee, Peter, William Theodore de Bary, and Yongho Ch’oe, eds. Sources of Korean Tradition, Vol. 2: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Pratt, Keith. Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea. London: Reaktion Books, 2006.
Pratt, Keith, and Richard Rutt. Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999.
Seth, Michael J. A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present. 3rd edn. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.
Pre-modern Korea
Baker, Don, and Franklin Rausch. Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosǒn Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2017.
Breuker, Remco E. Establishing a Pluralist Society in Medieval Korea, 918–1170: History, Ideology, and Identity in the Koryo Dynasty. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Buzo, Adrian, and Tony Prince, trans. Kyunyo-Jon: The Life, Times and Songs of a Tenth Century Korean Monk. Sidney: Wild Peony Press, 1994.
De Bary, William Theodore, and JaHyun Kim Haboush, eds. The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Deuchler, Martina. The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1992.
Duncan, John B. The Origins of the Chosŏn Dynasty. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
Griffis, William Eliot. Corea: The Hermit Nation. 9th edn. New York: AMS Press, 1971.
Haboush, JaHyun Kim. A Heritage of Kings: One Man’s Monarchy in the Confucian World. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Haboush, JaHyun Kim. Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosŏn, 1392–1910. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Haboush, JaHyun Kim. The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea. Translated and with an Introduction and Annotations by JaHyun Kim Haboush. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Kim, Kichung. Classical Korean Literature. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996.
Lee, Soyoung. Korean Painting. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Palais, James B. Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyŏngwŏn and the Late Chosŏn Dynasty. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996.
Shultz, Edward J. Generals and Scholars: Military Rule in Medieval Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.
Xu Jing. A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea: Xu Jing’s Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryǒ. Translated, Annotated, and with Introduction by Sem Vermeersch. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016.
Modern Korea
Armstrong, Charles K. The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Armstrong, Charles K. Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.
Brazinsky, Gregg. Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of Democracy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Buzo, Adrian. The Politics and Leadership in North Korea. 2nd edn. London: Routledge, 2017.
Cumings, Bruce. Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History. Updated edn. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2005.
Cumings, Bruce. The Origins of the Korean War, Vol. 1: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945–1947. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.
Cumings, Bruce. The Origins of the Korean War, Vol. 2: The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947–1950. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Deuchler, Martina. Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys: The Opening of Korea, 1875–1885. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977.
Eckert, Carter J. Offspring of Empire: The Koch’ang Kims and the Origins of Korean Capitalism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.
Jager, Sheila Miyoshi. Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013.
Kim, Charles R. Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Kim, Richard. Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Kim, Suzy. Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution., 1945–1950. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.
Lankov, Andrei. The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Larsen, Kirk W. Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Chosŏn Korea, 1850–1910. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Lie, John. Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Lowe, Peter. The Origins of the Korean War. New York: Longman, 1986.
Lynn, Hyung Gu. Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas Since 1989. Halifax, NS: Fenwood, 2007.
Myers, Brian. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—And Why It Matters. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2010.
Natsios, Andrew S. The Great North Korean Famine. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001.
Park, Chung Hee. The Country, the Revolution and I. Seoul: Hollym Corporation, 1970.
Park, Yeomi. In Order to Live. New York: Pengiun, 2015.
Robinson, Michael E. Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 1920–1925. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988.
Robinson, Michael E. Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
Seth, Michael J. North Korea: A History. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Seth, Michael J., ed. Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History. London: Routledge, 2015.
Shin, Gi-Wook. Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006.
Yoo, Theodore Jun. The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.