Broken Spears by Manuel Leon-Portillo
Columbian Exchange by Alfred Crosby
Gender:
Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies by Julia Spruill Cherry
Liberty's Daughters by Mary Beth Norton
Women before the Bar by Cornelia Hughes Dayton
Good Wives: Images and Reality in the lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender Race and Power in Colonial Virginia by Kathleen M. Brown
A Little Commonwealth by John Demos
The Pursuit of Happpiness, Family Values in Jefferson's Virginia by Jan Lewis
Race:
Journal of a life on a Georgia Plantation by Frances Kemble
A Shining Thread of Hope by Darlene Clark Hine
Indians and English by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Biography/Autobiography:
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
A Puritan Dilemma by Edmund S. Morgan
Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative by himself
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Professions:
Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine by James Thomas Flexner
America's Old Masters, first artists of the new world by James Thomas Flexner
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
This list is obviously cursory and is not intended to be all-inclusive. Let me know if you have an idea that's not listed here. Good luck and happy reading!