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Mr. and Mrs. Mallard befriend a policeman named Michael

• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard look for a place to live

• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard settle down on an island in the Charles River

• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Mrs. Mallard lays eight eggs

• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

The ducklings hatch

• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

The children see all the animals and name them for the teacher. They are practicing their reading.

• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.

1843

• Kate's House by Mary Francis Shura

1900 Galveston Hurricane

• Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history by Erik Larson

1947

• Exodus by Leon Uris

1947 Partition of India and Pakistan

• Partitions: A Novel by Amit Majmudar

1948 Arab-Israel War

• Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
• In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi

1948 Arab-Israel War [1948]

• Mornings in Jenin: A Novel by Susan Abulhawa

1960s

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

1996 Everest Disaster

• Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer

The 74th Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The 75th Hunger Games

• Catching fire (Hunger Games, 2) by Suzanne Collins (3rd Quarter Quell)

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini

Afghan Wars

• Burnt Shadows: A Novel by Kamila Shamsie

Afghanistan War

• Born under a million shadows : a novel by Andrea Busfield

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

• Yeager, an autobiography by Chuck Yeager

American Civil War

• Cold mountain : a novel by Charles Frazier
• A Light in the Storm the Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin (Dear America) by Karen Hesse
• Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity,and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
• A stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
• The coming fury by Bruce Catton (1865)
• Don't know much about the Civil War : everything you need to know about America's greatest conflict but never learned by Kenneth C. Davis (1865)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1865)
• The Killer Angels by Micheal Shaara (1865)
• Landsman : a novel by Peter Charles Melman (1865)
• March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• Never call retreat by Bruce Catton (1865)
• Shiloh : a novel by Shelby Foote (1865)
• Terrible swift sword by Bruce Catton (1865)
• This hallowed ground; the story of the Union side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton (1865)
• The Civil War : an illustrated history by Geoffrey C. Ward (1861–1865)

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David G. McCullough (1776)

American Occupation of Japan

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1952)

American Revolution

• Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser
• The First Salute by Barbara W. Tuchman
• 1776 by David G. McCullough (1783)
• Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren (1783)
• A breath of snow and ashes (Outlander, 6) by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
• An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Outlander, 7) by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
• Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt by Esther Forbes (1783)
• Sarah Bishop by Scott O'Dell (1783)
• John Adams by David McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

The Anschluss

• The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith H. Beer

Antebellum South

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Apocalypse

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Appin murder

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)

Armenian Deportation

• The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak (1915)

Armenian Deportations

• The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide by Margaret Ajemian Ahnert

Armenian Genocide

• The Gendarme by Mark T. Mustian
• The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide by Margaret Ajemian Ahnert
• Skylark farm by Antonia Arslan

Assassination of James A. Garfield

• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Assassination of Leon Trotsky

• The Lacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1940)

atomic bombing of Hiroshima

• The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Burnt Shadows: A Novel by Kamila Shamsie
• Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1945)
• Hiroshima by John Hersey (1945)
• Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1941)

The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II

• Red rabbit (Jack Ryan, 12) by Tom Clancy (1981-05-13)

Autumn Feast

• The Silver Chair (Narnia, 4) by C. S. Lewis

B's army attacks Roman army that is entrenched on hill

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Bangladesh War for Independence

• A golden age by Tahmima Anam
• The Good Muslim: A Novel by Tahmima Anam

Bataan Death March

• Ghost soldiers : the epic account of World War II's greatest rescue mission by Hampton Sides

Battle of Antietam

• Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis

Battle of Bataan

• Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 by John A. Glusman (1942)

Battle of Britain

• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1940)

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Corregidor

• Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 by John A. Glusman (1942)

Battle of Culloden

• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, 2) by Diana Gabaldon

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of France

• The Antoine De Saint-Exupery Collection : The Little Prince, Airman's Odyssey by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1940)
• Atonement : a novel by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Gettysburg

• The Killer Angels by Micheal Shaara (1863-07-03)
• This hallowed ground; the story of the Union side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton (1863-07-03)

Battle of Hogwarts

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

Battle of Jenin

• Mornings in Jenin: A Novel by Susan Abulhawa (April 3-11 ∙ 2002)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Long Island

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

Battle of Maeldun

• The long ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1942)

Battle of Mogadishu

• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden (1993)

Battle of Nomonhan

• The wind-up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1939)

Battle of Saratoga

• An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Outlander, 7) by Diana Gabaldon (1777)

Battle of Shanghai

• Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See (1937)

Battle of Shiloh

• Shiloh : a novel by Shelby Foote (1862-04-07)
• The Civil War : an illustrated history by Geoffrey C. Ward ([1862, 1862])

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Band of brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)
• Citizen soldiers : the U.S. Army from the Normandy beaches to the Bulge to the surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

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

Battle of the Somme

• Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks
• Storm of Steel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ernst Junger
• A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of the Wilderness

• A stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

Battle of Trenton

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

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Waterloo

• Les misérables by Victor Hugo (1815)
• Vanity fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis ([1815])

Battles of Lexington and Concord

• And then what happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz (1775-04-19)

Battles with the Taliban

• Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy

Birth of Christ

• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

Black Death

• The cross (Kristin Lavransdatter, 3) by Sigrid Undset
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• Year of wonders : a novel of the plague by Geraldine Brooks
• A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1340s)

Black Sox Scandal

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

The Blitz

• Coventry : a novel by Helen Humphreys
• Good night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe : A Story for Children (Narnia, 1) by C.S. Lewis
• Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
• All clear by Connie Willis (1941)
• Blackout by Connie Willis (1940 ∙ 1941)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1940 ∙ 1941)
• Atonement : a novel by Ian McEwan ([1940] ∙ [1941])

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

Bloomsday - 6/16/1904

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Bombing of Dresden

• I Will Bear Witness : A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer
• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut ([1945])

Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.

• The Lacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1932)

Bosnian War

• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (1995)
• People of the book : a novel by Geraldine Brooks (1995)

Bosnian War

• Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic

Bosnian War 1992|1995

• Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic

Boudica Plays Corn Woman

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

A boy invites a moose into his house and feeds him muffins with homemade blackberry jam

• If You Give a Moose a Muffin (If You Give...) by Laura Joffe Numeroff

Breaking the Sound Barrier

• Yeager, an autobiography by Chuck Yeager

British Occupation of India

• A passage to India by E. M. Forster (1765-1947)

British Raj

• Old filth by Jane Gardam
• Heat and dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1947)

Broad Street cholera outbreak

• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (1854)

Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

• The Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David G. McCullough

Bunny goes to bed

• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Burning of Colonia Victoria

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Burning of Lhy Deru

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Burning of Londinium

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Burning of Vernlamium

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser (1804-07-11)

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Cairo Peace Conference, 1921 [1921]

• Dreamers of the day : a novel by Mary Doria Russell

Celtic "army" insists on sacking Vernlamium before attacking Roman legions

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Chinese Invasion of Tibet

• Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom by Yangzom Brauen (1950)

Chinese reunification

• The good earth by Pearl S. Buck (1928)

Christmas

• Babar et le Père Noèl by Jean de Brunhoff
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe : A Story for Children (Narnia, 1) by C.S. Lewis

Christmas Eve

• The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett

Christmas Eve meal

• Who's that knocking on Christmas Eve? by Jan Brett

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee

Civil War

• Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Claudius Succeeded by Nero

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Cold War

• The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan, 4) by Tom Clancy
• From Stalinism to pluralism : a documentary history of Eastern Europe since 1945 by Gale Stokes
• A perfect spy by John Le Carré
• Red storm rising (Jack Ryan, 2) by Tom Clancy
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (George Smiley, 3) by John Le Carre
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, 5) by John le Carre
• The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís
• Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

Complete text first published in Great Britain, 1960

• Lady Chatterley's Lover (International Collectors Library) by D. H. Lawrence

Constitutional Convention

• Shh! we're writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz (1787)

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David McCullough

Coronation of Charles VII of France

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

The Council of Elrond

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

Council of Trent

• Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel

Creation of a Jewish State

• The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew (Narnia, 6) by C. S. Lewis

Crimean War

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

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Cuban Revolution

• Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire

Cultural Revolution

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie
• The corpse walker : real life stories, China from the bottom up by Yiwu Liao

Cyclone

• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

D-Day

• Band of brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-06-06)
• Citizen soldiers : the U.S. Army from the Normandy beaches to the Bulge to the surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-06-06)

the Day of Pain

• The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card

The death and resurrection of Aslan

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe : A Story for Children (Narnia, 1) by C.S. Lewis

The death of the White Witch

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe : A Story for Children (Narnia, 1) by C.S. Lewis

Defeat of the 9th Legion

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Depression Era

• The contract with God trilogy : life on Dropsie Avenue by Will Eisner

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Discovery of Radium

• Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss

donate hair to Locks of Love

• Clara's gift from the heart by Mary-Kyle Douglas

Dreyfus Affair

• The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Vanity fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-15)

Dunkirk Evacuation

• Blackout by Connie Willis
• The house at Tyneford / The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons

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)

Ebola Reston discovery

• The hot zone by Richard Preston (1989)

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

Endurance Expedition

• The Endurance : Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition by Caroline Alexander (1917)
• South : the last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1917)

Establishment of Israel

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon

Ethiopian Revolution, 1974

• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

Evacuation of Boston

• 1776 by David G. McCullough (1776-03)

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• Good night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian

Execution of Joan of Arc

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

Exposition Universelle

• The children's book: a novel by A. S. Byatt (1889)

Federalist Era

• John Adams by David McCullough (U.S. history ∙ 1789 ∙ 1801)

First Chimurenga

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller ([1896, 1897])

First day of school

• The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

The Flood

• The Preservationist by David Maine

Founding and development of North American Center of Parapsychic talents

• To Ride Pegasus by Anne Mccaffrey

Fourth Crusade

• Baudolino by Umberto Eco

French Resistance

• Amandine: A Novel by Marlena de Blasi
• April in Paris by Michael Wallner
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• The Long Voyage (Witnesses to War) by Jorge Semprun

French Revolution

• Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
• The Age of Napoleon (The Story of Civilization, Vol. 11) by Will Durant (1799)
• Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama (1789)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1789)

Gallipoli

• A fortunate life by A. B. Facey

Gaza War

• I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish (2009)

Genocide in Darfur

• The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari

German occupation of France

• Sarah's key by Tatiana de Rosnay

German occupation of Italy

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1943-1945)

German occupation of the English Channel Islands

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Germany

• In my hands : memories of a Holocaust rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke

Gettysburg Campaign

• The Killer Angels by Micheal Shaara (1863)
• This hallowed ground; the story of the Union side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton (1863)

Gilded Age

• A night to remember by Walter Lord
• Passage by Connie Willis

Glorious Revolution

• Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

Gold Rush

• The Sisters Brothers: A Novel by Patrick deWitt

Great Depression

• The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
• A fortunate life by A. B. Facey
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Memoirs of a geisha : a novel by Arthur Golden
• 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

Great Fire of London

• Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Frost

• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (1709)

Great Influenza Epidemic

• Dreamers of the day : a novel by Mary Doria Russell (1918)

Great Leap Forward

• The corpse walker : real life stories, China from the bottom up by Yiwu Liao
• Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dikötter
• Dreams of Joy: A Novel by Lisa See (1958-1961)

Great Plague of London

• A journal of the plague year by Daniel Defoe (1665-1666)

Great Plague of London

• Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

the Great Scourge

• When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

The Great Wars

• Antrax (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 2) by Terry Brooks
• Armageddon's children (The Genesis of Shannara, Book 1) by Terry Brooks
• The Druid of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, Book 2) by Terry Brooks
• The Elf Queen of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, Book 3) by Terry Brooks
• The Elfstones of Shannara (Shannara Trilogy, Book 2) by Terry Brooks
• First King of Shannara (Shannara Trilogy, Prequel) by Terry Brooks
• The Scions of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, Book 1) by Terry Brooks
• The Sword of Shannara (Shannara Trilogy, Book 1) by Terry Brooks
• The Wishsong of Shannara (Shannara Trilogy, Book 3) by Terry Brooks

Greco-Turkish War

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

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1942-1943)

Guy Fawkes Night

• Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Hartford circus fire

• Passage by Connie Willis (1944-07-06)

Henry Darrow has accident involving skull fracture

• To Ride Pegasus by Anne Mccaffrey

Hessich-Lichtenau, Germany

• In my hands : memories of a Holocaust rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke

Hindenburg disaster

• Passage by Connie Willis (1937-05-06)

Holocaust

• Abandonment of the Jews by David Wyman
• After the war by Carol Matas
• All but my life by Gerda Weissmann Klein
• The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon
• At the mind's limits: contemplations by a survivor on Auschwitz and its realities (Witnesses to War) by Jean Améry
• Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald
• Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel by Yann Martel
• Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
• Castles Burning: A Childs Life in War by Magda Denes
• The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
• Death Had Two Sons by Yael Dayan
• Dita Saxova by Arnošt Lustig
• The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
• Eyewitness Auschwitz : three years in the gas chambers by Filip Müller
• Far to go by Alison Pick
• Fatelessness : a novel by Imre Kertész
• Great house by Nicole Krauss
• The house at Tyneford / The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
• The house of returned echoes by Arnošt Lustig
• I Am Forbidden: A Novel by Anouk Markovits
• I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova
• I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust 1939-1945 by Henry Orenstein
• If not now, when? by Primo Levi
• The Illuminated Soul by Aryeh Lev Stollman
• In my hands : memories of a Holocaust rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
• The invisible bridge by Julie Orringer
• Katarina by Kathryn Winter
• The kindly ones : a novel by Jonathan Littell
• Lodz Ghetto : inside a community under siege by Alan Adelson
• The Long Voyage (Witnesses to War) by Jorge Semprun
• The lost : a search for six of six million by Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
• Louisa by Simone Zelitch
• Lovely Green Eyes: A Novel by Arnost Lustig
• A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal
• Mendel's daughter by Martin Lemelman
• Notes from the Warsaw ghetto; the journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum by Emanuel Ringelblum
• The road by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
• Scheisshaus luck : surviving the unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora by Pierre Berg
• Shavelings in death camps : a Polish priest's memoir of imprisonment by the Nazis, 1939-1945 by Henry M. Malak
• Sophie's choice by William Styron
• Speak you also : a survivor's reckoning by Paul Steinberg
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
• This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Browski
• Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offense by Martin Amis
• The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
• Two Lives by Vikram Seth
• The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S. by Arnošt Lustig
• The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
• We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates by Theo Coster
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (1933-1945)
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (1933-1945)
• The book thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas : a fable by John Boyne (1945)
• The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank (1945)
• Hitler's pope : the secret history of Pius XII by John Cornwell (1945)
• The hiding place by Corrie Ten Boom (1939-1945)
• The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith H. Beer (1939-1945)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (1939-1945)
• Sarah's key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1939-1945)
• The seamstress : a memoir of survival by Sara Tuvel Bernstein (1939-1945)
• The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman (1939-1945)

The Holocaust

• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss

Holocaust

• Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis by Karolina Lanckoronska

The Holocaust

• Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Holocaust 1933-1945

• The dentist of Auschwitz : a memoir by Benjamin Jacobs
• The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

Holodomor

• Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (1933)

House Committee on Un-American Activities, trials

• The Lacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (1975)

Hundred Flowers Bloom

• The corpse walker : real life stories, China from the bottom up by Yiwu Liao

Hundred Years' War

• A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1453)
• Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1453)

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

• From Stalinism to pluralism : a documentary history of Eastern Europe since 1945 by Gale Stokes

Hurricane Katrina

• Uncivilized beasts and shameless hellions : travels with an NPR correspondent by John F. Burnett
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

• Their eyes were watching God : a novel by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Iditarod Sled Dog Race

• Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen

Indian independence

• Burnt Shadows: A Novel by Kamila Shamsie

Indian Mutiny

• The siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell (1857)

Indian Ocean Tsunami

• Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka by Adele Barker (2004)

Influenza pandemic

• The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history by John M. Barry (1918)

The Inquisition

• The treasure of Montsegur : a novel by Sophy Burnham

Internment of Japanese Americans

• Snow falling on cedars by David Guterson

Invasion of Normandy

• Band of brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose

An invatation to Spain.

• Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy

Iranian Revolution

• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
• Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir by Marina Nemat
• The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
• Shah of shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński
• The complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Iran–Iraq War

• The complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1980 - 1988)

Iraq War

• Barefoot in Baghdad: A Story of Identity-My Own and What It Means to Be a Woman in Chaos by Manal M. Omar
• Ruff's war : a Navy nurse on the frontline in Iraq by Cheryl Lynn Ruff (2003)

Irish Potato Famine

• Ship fever : stories by Andrea Barrett

Islamic Revolution

• Daughter of Persia : a woman's journey from her father's harem through the Islamic Revolution by Sattareh Farman-Farmaian

Israeli Invastion of Lebanon

• A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi (1982)

Israeli war of independence

• Exodus by Leon Uris
• The hope : a novel by Herman Wouk

Italian Campaign

• And if I perish : frontline U.S. Army nurses in World War II by Evelyn Monahan
• A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Jacobite Rebellion

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Jacobite Revolt

• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, 2) by Diana Gabaldon

Japanese Canadian Internment

• Obasan by Joy Kogawa

Japanese-American Internment

• Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
• When the Emperor Was Divine : a novel by Julie Otsuka
• Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet : a novel by Jamie Ford (1945)

Jazz Age

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1929)

John Adams Presidency

• John Adams by David McCullough

Johnstown Flood

• The Johnstown flood by David G. McCullough

The journey of the terrorist to the US and their attacks on civil aircraft.

• Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy

The July Revolution

• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (1830)

July Revolution

• Les misérables by Victor Hugo (1830)

June Rebellion

• Les misérables by Victor Hugo (1832)

Karluk Voyage

• The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk and the Miraculous Rescue of her Survivors by Jennifer Niven (1913)

Kefauver Senate Hearings

• The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon

Khmer Rouge rule of 1975–1979

• In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel by Vaddey Ratner

Kidnapping of Willa Dutton

• First family by David Baldacci

Kindertransport

• Kindertransport by Olga Levy Drucker

King Philip's War

• Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war by Nathaniel Philbrick (1676-08)

King Prasutagos dies of illness, Boudica is elevated to Queen

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

King Prasutagos marries second wife Princess Boudica happily marry

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

King Togodomnos evicts Roman Client-King Veric from his land

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Korean War

• The coldest winter : America and the Korean War by David Halberstam
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Krakatoa Eruption

• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester (1883)

Kristallnacht

• The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith H. Beer

Lebanese Civil War

• A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
• White Masks by Elias Khoury

Lewis and Clark Expedition

• The saga of Lewis & Clark : into the uncharted West by Thomas Schmidt (1806)
• Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose (1806)

Lhiannon returns to Britain

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Lhiannon Sent to Eiru to saftey, also to share and learn what she can

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Lost Generation

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Malayan Emergency

• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Manhattan Project

• "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character by Richard Phillips Feynman

Mariel Boatlift

• Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus by Mirta Ojito (1980)

Massachusetts colonial period

• The scarlet letter : a romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1640s)

Mau Mau Uprising

• A grain of wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo (1960)

Middle Ages

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• What life was like in the age of chivalry : medieval Europe, AD 800-1500
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (1290)

Molly Malone observes Incident recorded on Darrows GooseEgg EEG, leading to scientific proof of psyhcic abiility

• To Ride Pegasus by Anne Mccaffrey

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

• Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Monmouth Rebellion

• Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle, 1) by Neal Stephenson

Most kings submit to Rome, becoming Client King. The Rebel Kingdom's become Roman property.

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson

Movement of drugs north and payments south across the US / Mexico border.

• Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy

Murder of Theo van Gogh

• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Napoleonic Wars

• Les misérables by Victor Hugo
• Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen
• Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
• The Age of Napoleon (The Story of Civilization, Vol. 11) by Will Durant (1815)
• Vanity fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1803 ∙ 1815)

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