Book Events for AvalonHighSchool

11th century

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1000s)

1290

• Catherine, Called Birdy

1290s

• Catherine, Called Birdy

13th century

• Catherine, Called Birdy

1480s

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

1482

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

1490s

• Romola (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

14th century

• The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)

15th century

• Henry IV, Part I (Dover Thrift Editions) (Pt. 1) by William Shakespeare
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• Romola (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

16th century

• The Adventures of Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes
• The Merchant of Venice (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays by Modern Library (1500s)

1750s

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper

1752

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

1757

• The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper

1790

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

1790s

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

17th century

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo ; Yuasa Basho, Nobuyuki (translator)
• Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays by Modern Library (1600s)
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1600s)

1820s

• Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

1830's Northern Plains Indians

• An Indian Winter by Russell Freedman

1830s

• Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

18th century

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• A Tale of Two Cities (Prentice Hall Literature Library) by Charles Dickens
• Treasure Island (Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Vindications of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

1953 Ionian Earthquake

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernieres

19th century

• A Christmas Carol by CHARLES DICKENS
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Great Expectations (Sterling Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
• Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
• Les Miserables (Penguin Classics) by Victor Hugo
• The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane
• Silas Mariner by George Eliot
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy

1st century BCE

• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

2010 Copiapó mining accident

• Buried Alive!: How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Deep Under the Chilean Desert by Elaine Scott

2013 El Reno Tornado

• National Geographic : The Monster Storm

2nd century

• Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions) by Marcus Aurelius

33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernieres (September 1943)

4th century BCE

• Plato's Phaedo by Plato
• Plato: Republic by Plato

5th century

• Coriolanus (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games (Book 1) by Suzanne Collins

Abolitionist Movement

• Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X
• Black Like Me by Robert Bonazzi
• Countdown by Deborah Wiles
• From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin
• Out of Many (3rd Edition) by Mari Jo Buhle
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
• Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
• The Reader's Companion to American History by John A. Garraty

Age of Sail

• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
• Treasure Island (Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth) by Robert Louis Stevenson

AIDS epidemic

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

American Civil War

• Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
• The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 by Paul Lauter
• Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (The Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (1865)
• Battlefield Ghosts by B. Keith Toney (1865)
• The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War by Jim Murphy (1865)
• The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward (1865)
• Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War by Alexander Gardner (1865)
• Gettysburg--The Second Day by Harry W. Pfanz (1865)
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara (1865)
• Military Memoirs Of A Confederate by Edward Porter Alexander (1865)
• No More Gallant a Deed: A Civil War Memoir of the First Minnesota Volunteers (Great Lakes Connections: The Civil War) by James A. Wright (1865)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1865)
• Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (1865)
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester (1865)
• The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)

American Revolution

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Battlefield Ghosts by B. Keith Toney (1783)
• Common Sense (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Paine (1783)
• THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC 1776-1787 by Gordon S Wood (1783)
• The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara (1783)
• Redcoat in Boston by Ann Finlayson (1783)
• Women in the Age of the American Revolution (Perspectives on the American Revolution) by Ronald Hoffman (1783)
• John Adams by David McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

American Revolutionary War

• The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 by Paul Lauter

Anglo Saxon period

• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1066)

Anti-Rent War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1839)

Anti-slavery movement

• Women in the Age of the American Revolution (Perspectives on the American Revolution) by Ronald Hoffman

Apollo 11

• First on the Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. by Neil Armstrong (1969-07-24)

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

• First on the Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. by Neil Armstrong (1969-07-20)

Apollo program

• First on the Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. by Neil Armstrong (1975)

Appin Murder

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)

Arab Revolt

• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (1918)

Armenian Genocide

• From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide by Taner Akçam
• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• The Illustrated Leaves of Grass by William Carlos Williams (1865-04-14)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Assassination of Malcolm X

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)
• The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb by Gar Alperovitz (1945)
• Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1945)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1945)
• Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen (1945)
• Truman by David McCullough (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston (1941-12-07)

Attica Prison Riot

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1971)

Bacon's Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1676)

Bataan Death March

• Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Gettysburg

• Gettysburg--The Second Day by Harry W. Pfanz (1863-07-03)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down (Perennial Classics) by Richard Adams

Battle of Leyte Gulf

• The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer (1944-10-26)

Battle of Shiloh

• The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward (1862-04-07)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of the Somme

• The First World War by John Keegan (1916-11-18)

Battle of Waterloo

• Les Miserables (Penguin Classics) by Victor Hugo (1815)
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-18)

Beat Generation

• Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation? by Ann Charters

The Beatles in Hamburg

• Baby's in Black: Astrid Kirchherr, Stuart Sutcliffe, and The Beatles in Hamburg by Arne Bellstorf ( 1962-12)

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1945-02)

Bombing of Libya

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1986)

Bonfire of Vanities

• Romola (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

Bosnian War

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (1992-1995)

Boston Massacre

• Redcoat in Boston by Ann Finlayson

Boston Tea Party

• The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution by Alfred F. Young

British Raj

• Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1947)

Bronze Age

• The Trojan War: Literature and Legends from the Bronze Age to the Present by Diane P. Thompson

Brown v. Board of Education

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

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis

Cambodian genocide

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

Champagne Fairs

• Life in a Medieval City by Joseph Gies

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: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1973)

Chinese Exclusion

• Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki (1882 -1942)

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol by CHARLES DICKENS
• Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Twelfth Night: or, What You Will (Signet Classic Shakespeare Series) by William Shakespeare

Civil Rights Movement

• The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 by Paul Lauter

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch

Classical Antiquity

• Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of Charlemagne (Modern Library) by Thomas Bulfinch
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
• Myths of the Greeks and Romans 1962 by Michael Grant
• The Odyssey: Revised Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) by Homer

Cold Fair

• Life in a Medieval City by Joseph Gies

Cold War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power by Daniel Yergin

Constitutional Convention

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC 1776-1787 by Gordon S Wood (1787)

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David McCullough

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship Of The Ring (Part one of The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Council of Trent

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

Crash of Flight 619

• Miracle by Elizabeth Scott

Creation of the world

• American Indian Myths and Legends (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library) by Richard Erdoes

Creation of Turkey

• From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide by Taner Akçam
• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Countdown by Deborah Wiles

Cuban Revolution

• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson (1959)

Cultural Revolution

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
• Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang (1976)

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Deathday Letter Received

• The Deathday Letter by Shaun David Hutchinson

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down (Perennial Classics) by Richard Adams

Disaster: Blizzard

• Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy

Disaster: Hurricane

• Isaac's Storm. A Man, a Time and the Deadliest Hurrican in History

Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb

• Treasures of Tutankhamun by Editor

Dorr Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1842)

Duchess of Richmond's ball

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

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold

Edo period or Tokugawa period

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo ; Yuasa Basho, Nobuyuki (translator)

Egyptian Revolution of 1919, King Farouk I overthrown 1952

• Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1 by Naguib Mahfouz

El Mozote Massacre

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1981)

Elizabethan Era

• William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Endurance Expedition

• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (1917)

English Renaissance

• Complete Sonnets (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Shakespeare
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Enlightenment

• A Vindications of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Establishment of Israel

• The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Execution of Che Guevara

• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson

Federalist Era

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

Feminist Movement

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn

Festival of Fools

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

First World War

• The Stones Are Hatching by Geraldine McCaughrean

Flour Riot of 1837

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn

French and Indian War

• The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Mourning Wars by Karen Steinmetz

French Revolution

• A Vindications of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
• A Tale of Two Cities (Prentice Hall Literature Library) by Charles Dickens (1789)

French-Italian Wars

• Romola (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent

Gallipoli Campaign

• The First World War by John Keegan (1916-01-09)

Galveston Hurricane of 1900

• Isaac's Storm. A Man, a Time and the Deadliest Hurrican in History

George Washington's Farewell Address

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis

German occupation of Italy

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

Gettysburg Campaign

• Gettysburg--The Second Day by Harry W. Pfanz (1863)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara (1863-07)

Gilded Age

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Grand Ole Opry

• Lake Wobegone Days by Garrison Keillor

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
• Thursday's Child by Sonya Hartnett
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1930s)

Great Frost

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1709)

Great Leap Forward

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Great Panic

• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power by Daniel Yergin

The Great Stink

• The Agency 1: A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee (1858)

Greek Civil War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1949)
• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernieres (1946 - 1949)

Halloween

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Harlem Renaissance

• Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) by Langston Hughes
• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston

Haymarket Massacre

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1886-05-04)

Hellenistic Period

• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

Holocaust

• Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards)) by Doreen Rappaport
• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
• Sophies Choice by William Styron
• Survival in Auschwitz by PrimoLevi
• Wiesenthal File, The by Alan Levy
• Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family by Miep Gies (1933-1945)

Hot Fair

• Life in a Medieval City by Joseph Gies

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Impeachment and Trial of President Bill Clinton

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn

Incan Civilization

• Johan Reinhard: Discovering Ancient Civilizations (Reading Expeditions Science Titles) by Rebecca L. Johnson

Indian Rebellion of 1857

• The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie

Indonesian Invasion of East Timor

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1975)

Industrial Revolution

• Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Interbellum

• The Master Butchers Singing Club (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich (1939)

Invasion of Grenada

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1983)

Iran-Contra Affair

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1990)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1986)

Iran-Iraq War

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (1980-1988)

Iranian Revolution

• House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus III (1979)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (1979)

Iraq War

• Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels by Anne Garrels

Irish Revolution

• Ficciones (English Translation) by Jorge Luis Borges

Italian Renaissance

• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Romola (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

Jacobean Era

• William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Jacobite Rebellion

• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Japanese Canadian Internment

• Obasan by Joy Kogawa

Japanese-American Internment

• Farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston (1945)

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston

John Adams Presidency

• John Adams by David McCullough

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1859)

Johnstown Flood

• Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards

July Revolution

• Les Miserables (Penguin Classics) by Victor Hugo (1830)

June Rebellion

• Les Miserables (Penguin Classics) by Victor Hugo (1832)

Klondike Gold Rush

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1898)

Korean War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1953)
• Truman by David McCullough (1953)

Kurdish genocide

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

Kurukshetra War

• Bhagavadgita (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sir Edwin Arnold

Laotian Civil War

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

Lebanese Civil War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1990)

Lewis and Clark Expedition

• The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Meriwether Lewis (1806)
• Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. (1806)
• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose (1806)

Liberation of the Philippines

• The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer (1945-08-15)

Manhattan Project

• Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
• Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Marshall Plan

• Truman by David McCullough (1951)

The Matching Banquet

• Matched by Ally Condie

Mayaguez incident

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1975)

McCarthyism

• Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America by Ellen Schrecker

Mesopotamian Campaign

• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (1918-11-14)

Mexican-American War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1848)
• Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (1848)

Middle Ages

• Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch
• Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of Charlemagne (Modern Library) by Thomas Bulfinch
• The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Catherine, Called Birdy
• Grendel by John Gardner
• Hamlet (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Shakespeare
• Henry IV, Part I (Dover Thrift Editions) (Pt. 1) by William Shakespeare
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Million Man March

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1995)

Murder of Michael Donald

• Like Trees, Walking: A Novel by Ravi Howard ([1981])

Murder of Pompey the Great

• Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw (September 29, 48 BCE)

My Lai Massacre

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1968)

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
• Les Miserables (Penguin Classics) by Victor Hugo
• War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1815)

Nat Turner Slave Insurrection

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1831)

Native American genocide

• The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 by Paul Lauter

Okeechobee hurricane

• Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Oklahoma City Bombing

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1995)

Operation Gothic Serpent

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1993)

Paris 1919 conference

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

Paris Peace Conference

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

Partition of India

• Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie

The Peloponnesian War

• Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Persian Gulf War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1991)

Philippine-American War

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1902)

Pickett's Charge

• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)

Pre-Columbian Era

• Johan Reinhard: Discovering Ancient Civilizations (Reading Expeditions Science Titles) by Rebecca L. Johnson

Prohibition

• The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud

Property Acts

• Women in the Age of the American Revolution (Perspectives on the American Revolution) by Ronald Hoffman

Property Rights

• Women in the Age of the American Revolution (Perspectives on the American Revolution) by Ronald Hoffman

Protestant Reformation

• A Reformation Debate by John Calvin

Ptolemaic Dynasty

• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

Quaker Act

• No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull (1662)

Raid on Cabanatuan [POW] Camp

• Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1877)

Reign of Cleopatra VII

• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities (Prentice Hall Literature Library) by Charles Dickens

Renaissance

• The Adventures of Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes
• Complete Sonnets (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Shakespeare
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Romola (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot

Resignation of Richard M. Nixon

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn

Roe v. Wade

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1973)

Roman Empire

• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions) by Marcus Aurelius

Rumble in the Jungle

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Rwandan Genocide

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1994)
• Rwanda Genocide (At Issue in History) by Christina Fisanick (1994)
• Say You're One of Them (Oprah's Book Club) by Uwem Akpan (1994)

Sand Creek Massacre

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; an Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
• A Century of Dishonor by Helen Jackson

Scopes Trial, The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, Scopes Monkey Trial

• The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud

Seminole Wars

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1858)

September 11 Attacks

• In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman (2001-09-11)

Seven Years' War

• The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper

Seymour Glass's wedding

• Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger ([1942])

Shays' Rebellion

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1787)

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down (Perennial Classics) by Richard Adams

Sinking of the Titanic

• Titanic: Voices From the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson

The Skara Rok

• Plain Kate by Erin Bow

Slavery

• The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 by Paul Lauter

Slavery in colonial times and after the American Revolution

• My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk about Slavery: Twenty-One Oral Histories of Former North Carolina Slaves by Belinda Hurmence

Spanish Civil War

• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Spanish Golden Age

• The Adventures of Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish Renaissance

• The Adventures of Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish-American War

• From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin (1898)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1898)

Stalinism

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn ([1924, 1953])

Stonewall Riots

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1969)

Terra Nova Expedition

• Great Feuds In History - Ten Struggles That Shaped The World by Colin Evans (1913)

Three Mile Island Accident

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1979)

Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

Treaty of Sèvres

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

Treaty of Trianon

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

Treaty of Versailles

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin

Trojan War

• The Aeneid by Virgil
• The Odyssey: Revised Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) by Homer
• The Trojan War: Literature and Legends from the Bronze Age to the Present by Diane P. Thompson

Trujillo dictatorship

• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Two Hundred Years' War

• WE by Eugene Zamiatin

United States invasion of Panama

• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn