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"disappeared"

• Fear in Chile by Patricia Politzer

1066

• King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson

1860s

• Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose

1918 Flu Epidemic

• Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic Of 1918 & The Search For The Virus That Caused It by Gina Kolata

1950s

• Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry

1968 Democratic National Convention

• Blood's A Rover by James Ellroy (Chicago, Illinois - August 26-29, 1968)

1970s

• Fortress Of Solitude by Joanthan Lethem

1978

• Coffin Underground by Gwendoline Butler

1996 Everest Disaster

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

19th Century

• Rose by Martin Cruz Smith

20th century

• The Age Of Extremes: A History Of The World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm

30th Reunion of Graduating Class of 1969

• July, July by Tim O'Brien

9/11

• The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast

9/11 Attacks

• Nemesis by Jo Nesbø

Abolitionist Movement

• Bury The Chains: Prophets & Rebels In The Fight To Free An Empire’s Slaves by Adam Hochschild
• The Overthrow Of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn

Abolitionist Movement

• Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama

Abstract Expressionist movement

• Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Abu Ghraib Prison scandal

• The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson (2004)

Adoption of the United States Constitution

• The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) by Alexander Hamilton

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Afghan Civil War

• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Afghan Civil War

• The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• American Babylon: Race & The Struggle For Postwar Oakland by Robert O. Self
• And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest For Racial Justice by Derek Bell
• Bombingham by Anthony Grooms
• Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
• Ella Baker: A Leader Behind The Scenes by Shylee Dallard
• Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising & The 1960s by Gerald Horne
• The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s by Robert Cohen
• L. A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present by Josh Sides
• The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959-December 1960 by Martin Luther King Jr.
• Pillar Of Fire: America In The King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
• Racial Matters: The FBI's Secret File On Black America, 1960-1972 by Kenneth O'Reilly
• W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight For Equality & The American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
• What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Princeton Studies in American Politics) by Theda Skocpol

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
• I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. by Michael Eric Dyson
• No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland by Chris Rhomberg

AIDS epidemic

• At Risk by Alice Hoffman

Algerian War

• Frantz Fanon: A Biography by David Macey (1962)
• A Savage War Of Peace by Alistar Horne (1962)
• Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad by Marnia Lazreg (1962)
• The Words to Say It by Marie Cardinal (1962)

Algerian War

• The Seine Was Red: Paris, October 1961 by Leila Sebbar

Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

• American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History Of Our nation’s Beginnings & The Heroic Newspaper That Tried To Report It by Richard N. Rosenfeld

Allied occupation of Japan

• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1945-1952)

American Civil War

• Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York by Peter Quinn
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-america by Kevin P. Phillips
• Dear America - A Light in the Storm: the Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 by Karen Hesse
• Eye Of The Storm: A Civil War Odyssey by Private Robert Knox Sneden
• The Feast Of All Saints by Anne Rice
• Grant by Jean Edward Smith
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Sucession To Loyalty by John W. De Forest
• White Doves At Morning by James Lee Burke
• Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1865)
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1 by Shelby Foote (1865)
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3 by Shelby Foote (1865)
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. II: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote (1865)
• In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent (1865)
• Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1865)
• Jesse James: Last Rebel Of The Civil War by T. J. Stiles (1865)
• Lee's Lieutenants, Volume 2: A Study in Command, Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville (Vol 2. Repr ed) (2nd of a 3 Vol Set) by Douglas Southall Freeman (1865)
• Lees Lieutenants Volume 1 (Vol 1. Repr ed) (1st of a 3 Vol Set) by Douglas Southall Freeman (1865)
• Lees Lieutenants Volume 3: A Study in Command, Gettysburg to Appomattox (Vol 3. Repr ed) (3rd of a 3 Vol Set) by Douglas Southall Freeman (1865)
• Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen (1865)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1865)
• The Monitor Chronicles : One Sailor's Account. Today's Campaign to Recover the Civil War Wreck by Mariners' Museum (1865)
• The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (1865)
• Race & Reunion: The Civil War In American Memory by David W. Blight (1865)
• The Soul Of Battle: From Ancient Times To The Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny by Victor Davis Hanson (1865)
• Uncrowned King by Stanley Weintraub (1865)
• Undying Glory: The Story Of The Massachusetts 54th Regiment by Clinton Cox (1865)
• The Wave by Evelyn Scott (1865)
• Where I'm Bound by Allen B. Ballard (1865)
• The Civil War: A History by Harry Hansen (1861-1865)
• Faded Coat of Blue (Abel Jones Mysteries) by Owen Parry (1861-1865)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn ([1861] ∙ [1865])

American Indian Movement

• In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen

American Revolution

• Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser
• Angel in the Whirlwind by Benson Bobrick
• The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-america by Kevin P. Phillips
• The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
• Captives: The Story Of Britain's Pursuit Of Empire & How Its Soldiers & Civilians Were Held captive By The Dream Of Global Supremacy, 1600-1850 by Linda Colley (1783)
• Dearest Friend: The Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey (1783)
• Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (1783)
• Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal (1783)
• The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh (1783)
• Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier by Alfred F. Young (1783)
• A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plumb Martin (1783)
• Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama (1783)
• The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1783)
• The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth Of Democracy & The Struggle To Create America by Gary B. Nash (1783)
• John Adams by David McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)
• The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s by Immanuel Wallerstein (1775 ∙ 1783)
• American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History Of Our nation’s Beginnings & The Heroic Newspaper That Tried To Report It by Richard N. Rosenfeld (1775-1783)

Anglo-Nicaraguan Wars of '46

• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Annexation of East Timor

• The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

Antebellum South

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Anti-Rent War

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1839)

Apartheid

• Biko by Donald Woods

Apocalypse

• Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God by Amos with Dawn Burgess Nur

Appin murder

• Kidnapped/Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)

Arab envoy from Baghdad

• Ibn Fadlan and The Land Of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North by Ibn Fadlan (922 AD)

Argentina

• The Little School : Tales of Disappearance and Survival by Alicia Partnoy

Argentine Economic Crisis

• The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez (December 2001)

Armenian Deportation

• The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak (1915)

Armenian Genocide

• The Gendarme by Mark T. Mustian

Armenian Revolt

• The Rage Of The Vulture by Barry Unsworth (1892-1893)

Assasination of President McKinley

• A Moment In The Sun by John Sayles (1901)

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3 by Shelby Foote (1865-04)

Assassination of Frank Steunenberg

• Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas (1905)

Assassination of Huey Long, 1935

• Huey Long: A Biography by T. Harry Williams

Assassination of Indira Gandhi

• Deep River by Shusaku Endo (1984-10-31)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• Baby Driver by Jan Kerouac
• Libra by Don DeLillo
• Act of Treason: The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy by Mark North (1963-11-22)
• American Tabloid by James Ellroy (1963-11-22)
• The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy (1963-11-22)
• Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images by David M. Lubin (1963-11-22)
• Who Shot JFK?: A Guide To The Major Conspiracy Theories by Bob Callahan (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Martin Luther King

• A Dangerous Road by Kris Nelscott
• The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy (1968-04-04)

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

• The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy (1968-06-05)

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Gravity'S Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Crazy Iris & Other Stories Of The Atomic Aftermath by Kenzaburo (editor) Oe (1945)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1945)
• Hiroshima: Why America Dropped The Atomic Bomb by Ronald Takaki (1945)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Dear America - Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii 1941 by Barry Denenberg (1941)
• TEMPLE OF DAWN (His the Sea of Fertility 3) by Yukio Mishima (1941)

Attica Prison Riot

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1971)

Augustine's conversion

• The Confessions of St. Augustine (Signet Classics) by Augustine of Hippo

Baby Boom

• July, July by Tim O'Brien

Bacon's Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1676)

Based on the real-life case of the charter boat Raven, which vanished on June 29, 1941, while on a sightseeing cruise off the coast of southern Maine, taking the life of 30 passengers

• The Raven by Peter Landesman

Battle of Agincourt

• Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays & The History Of England In The Middle Ages: 1337-1485 by John Julius Norwich (1415-10-25)
• Henry V by Christopher Allmand ([1415])

Battle of Antietam

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1 by Shelby Foote (1862-09-17)
• The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3 by Shelby Foote (1862-09-17)

Battle of Argaon

• Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell (1803-11-28)

Battle of Ball's Bluff

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1 by Shelby Foote (1861-10-22)

Battle of Baton Rouge

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

Battle of Beaver Dam Creek

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

Battle of Belmont, Missouri

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

Battle of Big Bethel

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

Battle of Blood River, South Africa

• The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey by Adam Hochschild (1838)

Battle of Borodino

• War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Bosworth Field

• Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays & The History Of England In The Middle Ages: 1337-1485 by John Julius Norwich (1485-08-22)

Battle of Bunker Hill

• Israel Potter, His Fifty Years Of Exile by Herman Melville

Battle of Cannae

• The Ghosts Of Cannae: Hannibal and The Darkest Hour Of The Roman Republic by Robert L. O’Connell

Battle of Carrick's Ford

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

Battle of Cedar Mountain

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

Battle of Chancellorsville

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. II: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote (1863)

Battle of Chantilly

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

Battle of Clontarf

• Njals Saga: A Critical Introduction by Lars Lonnroth (1014)

Battle of Corinth, Mississippi

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

Battle of Cross Keys

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

Battle of Crécy

• Chronicles by Jean Froissart ([1346])

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Battle of Drewry's Bluff

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

Battle of Eltham Landing

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

Battle of Fair Oaks

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

Battle of Five Armies

• Breaking The Magic Spell: Radical Theories Of Folk & Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Fort Donelson

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

Battle of Fort Henry

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

Battle of Fort Pulaski

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

Battle of Fort Sumter

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

Battle of Fredericksburg

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

Battle of Front Royal

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

Battle of Fulford

• King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson (1066)

Battle of Gettysburg

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. II: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote (1863-07-03)
• Lees Lieutenants Volume 3: A Study in Command, Gettysburg to Appomattox (Vol 3. Repr ed) (3rd of a 3 Vol Set) by Douglas Southall Freeman (1863-07-03)

Battle of Glendale

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

Battle of Glorieta Pass

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

Battle of Hanover Court House

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

Battle of Harpers Ferry

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

Battle of Hastings

• King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson

Battle of Hoke's Run / Falling Waters

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

Battle of Island Number Ten

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

Battle of Iuka

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

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Marathon

• Herodotus: The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (490 BCE)

Battle of McDowell

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

Battle of Midway

• Battle Of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II by Stephen Budiansky (1942)

Battle of Mill Springs

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

Battle of Munfordville

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

Battle of Nomonhan

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

Battle of Pea Ridge

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

Battle of Perryville, Kentucky

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

Battle of Philippi, West Virginia

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

Battle of Plum Run Bend

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

Battle of Pocotaligo

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

Battle of Port Republic

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

Battle of Port Royal

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

Battle of Rich Mountain

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

Battle of Richmond, Kentucky

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

Battle of Roanoke Island

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

Battle of Roncesvalles

• Medieval Epics by William Alfred
• The Song of Roland (Signet Classics) by Anonymous (778)

Battle of Salamis

• Herodotus: The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Battle of Savage Station

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

Battle of Secessionville

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

Battle of Shiloh

• The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1 by Shelby Foote (1862-04-07)

Battle of South Mountain

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

Battle of St. Charles, Arkansas

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

Battle of Stamford Bridge

• King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson

Battle of the Atlantic

• Battle Of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II by Stephen Budiansky (1945)

Battle of the Bulge

• Battle Of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II by Stephen Budiansky (1945)
• CITIZEN SOLDIERS : The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany -- June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)
• Messengers Of The Lost Battalion by Gregory Orfalea (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 Head of Passes

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

Battle of the Little Bighorn

• Killing Custer by James (with Paul Stekler) Welch (1876-06-26)

Battle of the Nissa

• King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson (1062)

Battle of the Somme

• The First World War by John Keegan (1916)

Battle of Thermopylae

• Herodotus: The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Battle of Trafalgar

• Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe & the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #4) by Bernard Cornwell ([1805])

Battle of Waterloo

• The Charterhouse Of Parma by Stendhal (1815)
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1815)
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815)
• Napoleon Bonaparte by Alan Schom (1815-06-18)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Battle of Williamsburg

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

Battle of Wilson's Creek

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

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh
• Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas

The Beslan school hostage crisis

• Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo

Biafra War

• Life Turns Man Up And Down: High Life, Useful Advice, & Mad English-African Market Literature by Kurt (editor) Thometz (1967)

The Big Bang

• The Fabric Of The Cosmos: Space, Time, & The Texture Of Reality by Brian Greene

Birth of Christ

• Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace

Black Dahlia Murder

• The Cases That Haunt Us by John Douglas (1947)

Black Death

• The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman (1340s)

Black Power Movement

• American Babylon: Race & The Struggle For Postwar Oakland by Robert O. Self
• No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland by Chris Rhomberg

Black Power Movement

• And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest For Racial Justice by Derek Bell
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Black Sox Scandal

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

The Blitz

• Fires Were Started by Brian Winston
• Party In The Blitz: The English Years by Elias Canetti
• The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene (1940 ∙ 1941)

Bloomsday

• NEW BLOOMSDAY BOOK PB by Blamires
• Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes.: A Celebration of James Joyce, Ulysses, and 100 Years of Bloomsday by Nola Tully

Bloomsday - 6/16/1904

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Bolshevik Revolution

• Ten Days That Shook The World by John Reed (1917)

Bombardeo de la Plaza de Mayo

• On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato (1955-06-19)

Bombing of Cologne

• On The Natural History Of Destruction by W. G. Sebald (1942)

Bombing of Dresden

• Closing Time by Joseph Heller
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945-02)

Bombing of Hamburg

• On The Natural History Of Destruction by W. G. Sebald (1943)
• The End: Hamburg 1943 by Hans Erich Nossack (1943-07-28)

Bombing of Libya

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1986)

Bosnian War

• My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd

Boston Strangler

• The Cases That Haunt Us by John Douglas (1962/1963/1964)

Boston Tea Party

• The Whites Of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution & The Battle Over American History by Jill Lepore

Boswell leaves for Utrecht

• London Journal 1762-1763 by James Boswell (5 August, 1763)

Boswell meets Samuel Johnson

• London Journal 1762-1763 by James Boswell (16 May, 1763)

Boswell visits Oxford

• London Journal 1762-1763 by James Boswell (23 April, 1763)

British Raj

• Kipling's India: Uncollected Sketches 1884-88 by Rudyard (edited by Thomas Pinney) Kipling
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1858-1947)

British withdrawal from Hong Kong

• Kowloon Tong: A Novel Of Hong Kong by Paul Theroux

Brown v. Board of Education

• Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol (1954)

Bubonic Plague

• The Burning Times: A Novel of Medieval France by Jeanne Kalogridis

Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

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

Building of the Hoover Dam

• Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering by Henry Petroski

Building of the Panama Canal

• Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering by Henry Petroski

Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

• Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David Haward Bain
• Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser (1804-07-11)
• Burr by Gore Vidal (1804-07-11)
• Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg (1804-07-11)
• A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr by Arnold A. Rogow (1804-07-11)

Byzantine Empire

• Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics) by Michael Psellus

California Gold Rush

• Daughter of Fortune (Oprah's Book Club) by Isabel Allende
• The Age Of Gold: The California Gold Rush & The New American Dream by H. W. Brands (1849)
• The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War by Leonard L. Richards (1849)

Canudos Rebellion

• Backlands: The Canudos Campaign by Euclides da Cunha

Capture of New Orleans

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

Carnevale

• Farewell to the Flesh: An Urbino Macintyre Mystery by Edward Sklepowich

Carnival

• After The Dance: A Walk Through Carnival In Jacmel, Haiti by Edwidge Danticat

Chairman of Public Service Commission, 1922

• Huey Long: A Biography by T. Harry Williams

Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness At The Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (1893)

Chilean Coup

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1973)

Chinese Civil War

• World Revolution 1917-1936 by C. L. R. James (1950)

Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster

• Accident: A Day's News by Christa Wolf (1986)

The Christian conversion of Iceland

• Njals Saga: A Critical Introduction by Lars Lonnroth (999)

Christian Goldbach writes a letter to Leonard Euler, which includes a mathematical question that becomes known as Goldbach's Conjecture

• Uncle Petros & Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis (1742), Kurt Godel publishes 'On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems' (1931)

Christmas

• Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1952)

Civil Rights Movement

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Meridian by Alice Walker
• Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas

The Civil War

• Fire On The Beach: Recovering The Lost Story Of Richard Etheridge & The Pea Island Lifesavers by David & Zoby Wright, David

Clube de Leitores da Livraria Bulhosa Entrecampos

• The Rebels by Sandor Marai (Abril 2009)

Cold War

• Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World by James Chace
• The Assassination Of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte
• Black & Red: W.E.B.Dubois & The Afro-American Response To The Cold War 1944-1963 by Gerald Horne
• Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency by James Bamford
• Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
• The Great Betrayal: The Definitive Story Of The Most Sensational Spy Case Of The Century by Douglas Sutherland
• Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez
• Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre
• The Innocent by Ian McEwan
• Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining The Life & Legacy Of America's Most Hated Senator by Arthur Herman
• The Massacre at El Mozote by Mark Danner
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• A Perfect Spy by John Le Carre
• The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea by John Pina Craven
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
• Underworld by Don DeLillo
• Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald
• Smiley's People by John Le Carre (1946-1991)

Cold War

• The Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962 by Laurence & Peter Kornbluh (editors) Chang
• The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy

Complete text first published in Great Britain, 1960

• Lady Chatterley's Lover: Complete and Unexpurgated 1928 Orioli Edition by D. H. Lawrence

Conquest of Latin America

• Letters From Mexico by Hernan Cortes
• The Making Of New World Slavery: From The Baroque To The Modern 1492-1800 by Robin Blackburn
• A Voyage Long & Strange: Rediscovering The New World by Tony Horwitz

Conquest of Mexico

• Letters From Mexico by Hernan Cortes (1519)

Conservative movement

• From George Wallace To Newt Gingrich: Race In The Conservative Counterrevolution 1963-1994 by Dan T. Carter (U.S. history)
• The Politics Of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins Of The New Conservatism, & The Transformation Of American Politics by Dan T. Carter (U.S. history)

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David McCullough

Continental Congress' Treaty of 1778 with France

• American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History Of Our nation’s Beginnings & The Heroic Newspaper That Tried To Report It by Richard N. Rosenfeld

Contra War

• The Culture Of Terrorism by Noam Chomsky (1990)
• Fire from the Mountain by Omar Cabezas (1990)
• Inevitable Revolutions by Walter LaFeber (1990)
• The Patient Impatience by Tomas Borge (1990)
• The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy (1990)
• Washington's War on Nicaragua by Holly Sklar (1990)

Coup of Juan Velasco Alvarado

• The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa (1968)

Crimean War

• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
• Uncrowned King by Stanley Weintraub (1856)

Cristero War

• Recollections of Things to Come (Pan America) by Elena Garro (1926-1929)

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
• The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Crusades

• The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf

The Crusades

• The Alexiad Of Anna Comnena by Anna Comnena

Cuban Missil Crisis

• Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)

Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh
• Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas
• The Translator by John Crowley
• The Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962 by Laurence & Peter Kornbluh (editors) Chang (1962)

Cuban Revolution

• The Sugar Island by Ivonne Lamazares
• Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire
• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson (1959)
• Guevara Also Known As Che by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (1959)

Cultural Revolution

• SON OF THE REVOLUTION by Liang Heng (1976)

Cyclone

• The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum

D-Day

• CITIZEN SOLDIERS : The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany -- June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-06-06)

Dakar-Niger railway strike

• God's Bits Of Wood by Sembene Ousmane (1948)

the day after Tuesday and the day before Wednesday

• Amphigorey Also by Edward Gorey

Death of Amy Robsart

• TO SHIELD THE QUEEN (Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Court) by Fiona Buckley

the death of Beowulf

• Beowulf by Michael (editor & translator) Alexander

the death of Grendel

• Beowulf by Michael (editor & translator) Alexander

the death of Grendel's mother

• Beowulf by Michael (editor & translator) Alexander

Death of Henri II, King of France

• The Princess of Cleves (New Directions Classics) by Madame de La Fayette (1559-07-10)

Death of Mary I, Queen of England

• The Princess of Cleves (New Directions Classics) by Madame de La Fayette (1558-11-17)

The death of Socrates

• The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including the Letters (Bollingen Series LXXI) by Plato

Dedication of Lincoln Memorial

• Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape by Kirk Savage (1922)

Dedication of Vietnam Veterans Memorial

• Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape by Kirk Savage (1982)

Dedication of World War II Memorial

• Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape by Kirk Savage (2004)

The Deluge

• Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell (Great Flood)

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Disappearance of Little Butter

• Details at Ten by Ardella Garland

Disappearance of Mallory and Irvine 1924

• Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory by David Breashears

Discovery and Boarding of the "Nautilus"

• 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne

Discovery of the double helix

• Double Helix (Scribner Classics) by J. Watson

Discovery of the Mississippi River

• A Voyage Long & Strange: Rediscovering The New World by Tony Horwitz

Discovery of the Titanic

• Titanic: Fortune & Fate by Beverly & Lehrer McMillan, Stanley (1985-09-01)

Dorr Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn ([1841] ∙ [1842])

Duchess of Richmond's ball

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

The Dust Bowl

• The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Dust Bowl Era

• American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration & Okie Culture In California by James N. Gregory (1939)

Easter Rising

• A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle (1916)

Egyptian Revolution of 1919, King Farouk I overthrown 1952

• Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

El Mozote Massacre

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1981)

Elected Governor, 1928

• Huey Long: A Biography by T. Harry Williams

The Election of Nicolas Sarkozy

• Europe's Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age by Steven Hill

End of Roman Empire

• The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears

End of the World

• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Endurance Expedition

• Shackleton: The Antarctic Challenge by Kim Heacox (1917)

English Civil War

• The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-america by Kevin P. Phillips
• Prisons by Mary Lee Settle
• Wide As The Waters: The Story Of The English Bible & The Revolution It Inspired by Benson Bobrick (1651)

Establishment of Israel

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Execution of the Rosenbergs

• The Public Burning (A Richard Seaver Book) by Robert Coover

Exxon-Valdez

• The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast

Fall of the Berlin Wall

• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (1989)

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