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Summary: 31 Events.

American Civil War

• LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
• Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk (1861-1865)

American Revolution

• The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence (Library of America) by Various (1783)
• George Washington : Writings (Library of America) by George Washington (1783)
• In Pursuit Of Reason. The Life Of Thomas Reason by NOBLE CUNNINGHAM (1783)
• Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America) by Thomas Paine (1775 ∙ 1783)

American War of Independence

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Truman by David McCullough (1945)

Battle of Bunker Hill

• The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence (Library of America) by Various

Battles of Lexington and Concord

• The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence (Library of America) by Various (1775-04-19)

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The dark side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh

Cold War

• Acheson : the Secretary of State who created the American world by James Chace

Council of Chalcedon

• Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Michael Angold

Council of Nicaea

• Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Michael Angold

Cuban Missile Crisis

• The dark side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh

Discovery of America

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

The Egyptian Campaign

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Enlightenment

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Fall of Constantinople

• 1453: The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley (1453)

French Revolution

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun
• Rights of Man (Collector's Library) by Thomas Paine (1789)
• Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America) by Thomas Paine (1789)

Gettysburg Address

• LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills

Holocaust

• Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusio by Michael; Stephen Jay Gould Shermer, Foreword

Industrial Revolution

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Iran-Contra Affair

• An American Life: The Autobiography by Ronald Reagan

Korean War

• Truman by David McCullough (1950 ∙ 1953)

Lewis and Clark Expedition

• The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Signet Classics) by Meriwether Lewis (1806)

Marshall Plan

• Truman by David McCullough (1947 ∙ 1951)

Protestant Reformation

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Renaissance

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Resurrection of the Dead

• Catechism of the Catholic Church: Second Edition by U.S. Catholic Church

Revolution of 1848

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Romantic Movement

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

Thirty Years' War

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

World War I

• From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun

World War II

• Truman by David McCullough (1939 ∙ 1945)