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13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

1878

• Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, Book 1) by Cassandra Clare

1900 Galveston Hurricane

• Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

1928

• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

1936 Olympics

• Contact by Carl Sagan

1938 Hurricane

• Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R.A. Scotti

1996 Everest Disaster

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

19th Century

• Rose by Martin Cruz Smith

33ª Fiesta anual del pavo asado

• Still Life with Crows (Pendergast, Book 4) by Lincoln Child

The 74th Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The 75th Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (3rd Quarter Quell)

9/11 Attacks

• Nemesis by Jo Nesbo

Abolitionist Movement

• Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Age of Simplification

• A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Agreement of the Holy Scourge

• A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

AIDS epidemic

• Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century by John Paul Godges

Airplane testing at Edwards AFB, California, 1950s [1950]

• Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager

Allied Invasion of Sicily

• A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

Alyssa Merrimon goes missing

• The Last Child by John Hart

Amanda McCarthy goes missing from her home

• Moonlight Mile (Kenzie and Gennaro) by Dennis Lehane

American Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Volume 2 by Carl Sandburg
• A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh by Jeff Shaara
• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Mendoza in Hollywood (The Company, 3) by Kage Baker
• Mr Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton
• White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1865)
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fredericksburg to Meridian (Vol. 2) by Shelby Foote (1865)
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Red River to Appomattox (Vol. 3) by Shelby Foote (1865)
• The Coming Fury (American Civil War Trilogy, Vol. 1) by Bruce Catton (1865)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1865)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara (1865)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1865)
• Lincoln by Gore Vidal (1865)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1865)
• Robert E. Lee: A Biography by Emory M. Thomas (1865)
• Shiloh: A novel by Shelby Foote (1865)
• Terrible Swift Sword: Volume Two in the American Civil War Trilogy by Bruce Catton (1865)
• With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates (1865)
• The March by E.L. Doctorow (1861, 1865)
• Cain at Gettysburg by Ralph Peters (1861-1865)
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin ([1861, 1865])

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776)

American Indian Movement

• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen

American Revolution

• 1776 by David McCullough (1783)
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (1783)
• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis (1775 ∙ 1783)

Antebellum South

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Apocalypse

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Apollo 1 fire

• A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin (1967-01-27)

Apollo 10

• A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin (1969-05-26)

Apollo 11

• Flight My Life in Mission Control by Christopher Kraft (1969-07-24)
• A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin (1969-07-24)

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

• Flight My Life in Mission Control by Christopher Kraft (1969-07-20)
• A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin (1969-07-20)

Apollo 13

• Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell (1970-04-17)

Apollo 17

• The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Eugene Cernan (1972-12-19)

Apollo 7

• A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin (1968-10-22)

Apollo 8

• A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin (1968-12-27)

Apollo 9

• A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin (1969-03-13)

Apollo program

• Moon Shot : The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard
• Flight My Life in Mission Control by Christopher Kraft (1975)
• The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Eugene Cernan (1975)
• Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell (1975)
• A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin (1975)

Armageddon

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Armistice Day

• Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century by John Paul Godges (1918-11-11)

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Red River to Appomattox (Vol. 3) by Shelby Foote (1865-04)
• Lincoln by Gore Vidal (1865-04)
• Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.) by James L. Swanson (1865-04)
• With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates (1865-04)

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (1914)

Assassination of James A. Garfield

• Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Death of a President: November 1963 by William Manchester (1963-11-22)
• Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century by John Paul Godges (1963-11-22)
• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King ([1963])
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving ([1963])

Assassination of Ohio Governer Loneford by someone using a Glock automatic

• Hit and Run (John Keller Mysteries) by Lawrence Block

Asteroid Impact

• Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Asteroid Maia on course to hit Earth

• The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Evidence of Things Unseen : A Novel by Marianne Wiggins (1945)
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• At Dawn We Slept by Gordon W. Prange (1941)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1941)

Baby Boom

• Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century by John Paul Godges

Battle of Antietam

• Mr Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton
• With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates (1862)
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-09-17)
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Red River to Appomattox (Vol. 3) by Shelby Foote (1862-09-17)

Battle of Artemisium

• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (August (or September) 480 B.C.E.)

Battle of Ball's Bluff

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-10-22)
• With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates (1861-10-22)

Battle of Baton Rouge

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-08-05)

Battle of Beaver Dam Creek

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-06-26)

Battle of Belmont, Missouri

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-11-07)

Battle of Big Bethel

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-06-10)

Battle of Britain

• A Short History of World War II by James L. Stokesbury
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1940)

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Carrick's Ford

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-07-13)

Battle of Cedar Mountain

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-08-09)

Battle of Chancellorsville

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fredericksburg to Meridian (Vol. 2) by Shelby Foote (1863)
• With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates (1863-05-06)

Battle of Chantilly

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-09-01)

Battle of Chickamauga

• With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates (1863-09-20)

Battle of Corinth, Mississippi

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-05-30)

Battle of Cross Keys

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-06-08)

Battle of Drewry's Bluff

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-05-15)

Battle of Eltham Landing

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-05-07)

Battle of Fair Oaks

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-06-01)

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Fort Donelson

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-02-16)

Battle of Fort Henry

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-02-06)

Battle of Fort Pulaski

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-04-11)

Battle of Fort Sumter

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-04-13)

Battle of Fredericksburg

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fredericksburg to Meridian (Vol. 2) by Shelby Foote (1862-12-13)

Battle of Front Royal

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-05-23)

Battle of Gettysburg

• Cain at Gettysburg by Ralph Peters (1863-07)
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fredericksburg to Meridian (Vol. 2) by Shelby Foote (1863-07-03)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)

Battle of Glendale

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-06-30)

Battle of Glorieta Pass

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-03-28)

Battle of Hanover Court House

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-05-27)

Battle of Harpers Ferry

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-09-15)

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Hoke's Run / Falling Waters

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-07-02)

Battle of Island Number Ten

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-04-08)

Battle of Iuka

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-09-19)

Battle of Iwo Jima

• Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac (1945)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Long Island

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-08-27)

Battle of McDowell

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-05-08)

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1942)

Battle of Mill Springs

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-01-19)

Battle of Munfordville

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-09-17)

The Battle of Mycale

• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (June 479 B.C.E.)

Battle of Nomonhan

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1939)

Battle of Okinawa

• Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac (1945)

Battle of Pea Ridge

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-03-08)

Battle of Perryville, Kentucky

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-10-08)

Battle of Philippi, West Virginia

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-06-03)

The Battle of Plataea

• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (June 479 B.C.E.)

Battle of Plum Run Bend

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-05-10)

Battle of Pocotaligo

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-10-22)

Battle of Port Republic

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-06-09)

Battle of Port Royal

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-11-07)

Battle of Rich Mountain

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-07-11)

Battle of Richmond, Kentucky

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-08-30)

Battle of Roanoke Island

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-02-08)

The Battle of Salamis

• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (September 480 B.C.E.)

Battle of Savage Station

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-06-29)

Battle of Secessionville

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-06-16)

Battle of Shiloh

• A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh by Jeff Shaara
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-04-07)
• Shiloh: A novel by Shelby Foote (1862-04-07)

Battle of Singapore

• South by Java Head by Alistair MacLean (1942)

Battle of South Mountain

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-09-14)

Battle of St. Charles, Arkansas

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-06-17)

Battle of Tannenburg

• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Battle of the Atlantic

• The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat (1945)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Head of Passes

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-10-12)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of the Little Bighorn

• Black Hills by Dan Simmons
• SON OF THE MORNING STAR: GENERAL CUSTER AND THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN (PICADOR BOOKS) by EVAN S. CONNELL (1876)

Battle of the Marne

• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Battle of the Somme

• J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

The Battle of Thermopylae

• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (August (or September) 480 B.C.E.)

Battle of Trenton

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-12-26)

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Waterloo

• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1815)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke ([1815])
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis ([1815])

Battle of Williamsburg

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-05-05)

Battle of Wilson's Creek

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-08-10)

Bicentennial

• Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century by John Paul Godges

Black Death

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Black Sox Scandal

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1919)

The Blitz

• Fire Watch by Connie Willis (1940)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1940 ∙ 1941)

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

Boer War

• The Covenant by James A. Michener

Bombing of Dresden

• Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut ([1945])

Boston Police Strike

• The Given Day by Dennis Lehane (1919)

Breaking the Sound Barrier

• Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager

Burning Man

• Homeland by Cory Doctorow

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
• God Emperor of Dune (Dune, 4) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

California Gold Rush

• Heyday by Kurt Andersen
• Gold Dust by Donald Dale Jackson (1849)
• The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience by J.S. Holliday (1849)

Capture of New Orleans

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-05-01)

Carolinas Campaign

• The March by E.L. Doctorow (1865)

Centennial celebration for Thalia, Texas

• Texasville by Larry McMurtry (fictional town)

Ceremony of Twelve

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

Chattanooga Campaign

• With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates (1863-11)

Chicago World's Fair

• Black Hills by Dan Simmons (1893)
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (1893)

A child is killed at the church

• A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel by Wiley Cash

Chinese reunification

• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1928)

Christmas

• I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Civil Rights Movement

• Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century by John Paul Godges

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Cold War

• Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag
• The Clocks by Agatha Christie
• Declare by Tim Powers
• Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre
• The Looking Glass War by John Le Carré
• A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré
• Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré
• Underworld by Don DeLillo
• Welcome to the Monkey House by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut
• Smiley's People by John Le Carré (1946-1991)

Comet Impact with Earth

• Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Constitutional Convention

• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis

Coordinated Attack by the Tooks

• The Inverted World by Christopher Priest

Coronation of Charles VII of France

• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1429-07-17, Reims, France)

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Creation of the One Ring

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Crimean War

• The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, 1) by Jasper Fforde

The Crowning of Aragorn

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Cuban Missil Crisis

• Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century by John Paul Godges

D-Day

• A Short History of World War II by James L. Stokesbury
• Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre (June 6, 1944)

Dan Mercer goes to a home of a young girl, thinking she was in trouble; he walks into a sting operation attempting to catch pedophiles.

• Caught by Harlan Coben

the Day of Pain

• The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card

The Death

• Eon by Greg Bear

Death of Pope Clement V

• The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, 1) by Maurice Druon (1314)

Death of youngest person in the world

• The Children of Men by P.D. James

debut of The Ramones

• The Dead Zone by Stephen King

Destruction of Earth

• The Call of Earth (Homecoming, 2) by Orson Scott Card
• The Forge of God by Greg Bear
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (fictitious)

Destruction of Isengard

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Discovery and Boarding of the "Nautilus"

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

discovery of fire stones

• The Valley Of Horses by Jean M. Auel

Discovery of the Titanic

• Raise the Titanic by Clive Cussler (fictional)

Dred Scott Decision

• With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates (1857)

The Dust Bowl

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Dust Bowl Era

• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (1939)

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

Election of 1860

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Election of 1864

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Election of John F. Kennedy

• Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century by John Paul Godges

Emancipation Proclamation

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

End of the Third Age

• The Silmarillion by J. R. R Tolkien

The End of the Universe

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

End of the World

• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

End of the World

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Eruption of Krakatoa

• The Year Without Summer by William K. Klingaman (1815)

Eruption of Yellowstone supervolcano

• Ashfall by Mike Mullin

Establishment of Israel

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Evacuation of Boston

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-03)

Execution of Jacques de Molay

• The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, 1) by Maurice Druon (1314)

Execution of Joan of Arc

• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1431-05-30, Rouen, France)

Fall of Rome

• Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp

Fenian Uprising

• The Tenants of Time by Thomas Flanagan

The Fetterman Massacre, 1866

• Boone's Lick : A Novel by Larry McMurtry

First atomic explosion

• The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov

First Battle of Bull Run

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-07-21)

First Battle of Kernstown

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-03-23)

First Battle of Lexington

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1861-09-20)

First Battle of Memphis

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-06-06)

First Battle of Winchester

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-05-25)

First cattle drive from Texas to Montana

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

First manned mission to Mars

• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Flame Deluge

• A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Ford Day

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Fredericksburg Campaign

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fredericksburg to Meridian (Vol. 2) by Shelby Foote (1862)

French and Indian War

• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis

French Revolution

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1789)

Gay Liberation

• Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century by John Paul Godges

Gerald Ford Presidency

• The Dead Zone by Stephen King

Gettysburg Address

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Gettysburg Campaign

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fredericksburg to Meridian (Vol. 2) by Shelby Foote (1863)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara (1863)

Gilded Age

• Passage by Connie Willis

Girl tells her life story, badly; briefly meets James Bond.

• The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, 10) by Ian Fleming

Glorious Revolution

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

Gold Rush

• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

Grand Prix

• The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean

Great Depression

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century by John Paul Godges
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (1929)
• Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1930's)

Great Fire of London

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Locomotive Chase

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote (1862-04-12)

The great molasses flood

• The Given Day by Dennis Lehane ([1918])

Great Plague of London

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

the Great Scourge

• When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

The Great Wars

• The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• The Sword Of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Greco-Persian Wars

• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (499-449 B.C.E.)

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1942-1943)

Gulf War, 1990-1991

• Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth

Halley's Comet

• 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
• Heart of the Comet by Gregory Benford and David Brin (2061)

Halloween

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King (1958)

Hannah Baker's Suicide

• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Hitler sworn Chancellor

• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

Hobart Phase

• Counter Clock World by Philip K. Dick

Hogswatch

• Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

Holocaust

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Home invaders break into Frank Meyer's home and kill his family.

• The First Rule by Robert Crais

The Hundred Days

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Hundred Years' War

• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1453)

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

• The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith

Hurricane Donna

• Travels with Charley by John: John Steinbeck Steinbeck (1960)

Hurricane Katrina

• The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley

Ice Storm of 1998

• The Ice Storm: An Historic Record in Photographs of January 1998 by Mark Abley

the Illearth War

• The Illearth War by Stephen R. Donaldson

Inaguration of Abraham Lincoln

• The Hour of Peril by Daniel Stashower (1861)

Industrial Revolution

• Earth is Room Enough by Isaac Asimov

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