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13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

14th century

• The Divine Comedy Part 3: Paradise (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri
• The Divine Comedy, Part 2: Purgatory (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri
• The Divine Comedy: Hell (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri

16th century

• The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli by Niccolò Machiavelli

1770s

• 1776 by David McCullough

1776

• 1776 by David McCullough

1788-89 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1792 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1796 presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

17th century

• The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick

1800 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1820s

• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

1830s

• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

1890s

• So Big by Edna Ferber

18th century

• 1776 by David McCullough
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Selected Writings by Benjamin: Edited By Ziff Franklin, Larzer
• Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
• Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire
• The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
• Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes
• A modest proposal by Jonathan Swift
• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

1900s

• So Big by Edna Ferber

1910s

• So Big by Edna Ferber

1920s

• So Big by Edna Ferber

1927 Solvay Conference

• Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll

1980s

• 1984 by George Orwell

1984

• 1984 by George Orwell

19th century

• Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier
• The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• The Red Badge of Courage (A Thrushwood Book) by Stephen Crane
• The Underground Railroad (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead
• War and Peace (Modern Library Classics) by Leo Tolstoy

1st century

• Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina by Robert Graves
• I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves

1st century BCE

• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
• I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves

20th century

• The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley (1900)

4th century BCE

• Aristotle- Nicomachean Ethics by Martin Ostwald
• Great dialogues by Plato.,
• The Politics of Aristotle
• The Symposium translated by W. Hamilton by PLATO

7th Decennial US Census

• America's Great Debate by Fergus M. Bordewich

Accession of James VI, King of the Scots

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson

Act of Union

• The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith (1801)

Afghan Civil War

• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (1996)

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Age of Sail

• Two Years Before the Mast by Dana

AIDS epidemic

• The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham
• The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel by Carol Rifka Brunt

Air Florida Flight 90 crash

• The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert Trivers

Alabama claims

• EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS, THE , Modern Library 76 by Henry Adams, Introduction By James Truslow Adams

Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham

America, Apogee & Decline

• 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson

American Civil War

• Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
• The Golden Book of The Civil War, Adpated for Young Readers from the American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War by Flato
• Grant by Ron Chernow
• Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
• EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS, THE , Modern Library 76 by Henry Adams, Introduction By James Truslow Adams (1865)
• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (1865)
• Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War by S. C. Gwynne (1865)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• New York by Edward Rutherfurd (1865)
• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)
• The Red Badge of Courage (A Thrushwood Book) by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)
• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776)

American Revolution

• Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Selected Writings by Benjamin: Edited By Ziff Franklin, Larzer
• The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• New York by Edward Rutherfurd
• A Study of History. Abridgement of Volumes 1 - 6 by D C Somervell. by Arnold Toynbee
• Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1783)
• 1776 by David McCullough ( 1783)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1783)
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (1783)
• Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick (1783)
• FOUNDING FATHER: Rediscovering George Washington by Richard Brookhiser (1783)
• Fusiliers: The Saga of a British Redcoat Regiment in the American Revolution by Mark Urban (1783)
• Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes ( 1783)
• Peter Oliver's Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion: A Tory View by Peter Oliver (1783)
• A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution by Theodore Draper (1783)
• John Adams by David McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

Anglo-Irish Treaty

• Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan

Anglo-Spanish War

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson

Antebellum South

• The Underground Railroad (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead

Armistice Day - World War I

• The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age by Juliet Nicolson

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Death of a President November 20-November 25 1963 by William Manchester (1963-11-22)
• The Warren Report: The Official Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Leon Trotsky

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

Assassination of Malcolm X

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Assassination of Michael Collins

• Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan (1922-08-22)

Assassination of the Gracchi

• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (1945)
• Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Attica Prison Riot

• Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

August 1st, Ross Gay's birthday

• The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of maladies : stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

baseball

• The Great American Novel by Philip Roth

Battle of Actium

• Cleopatra: A Biography (Women in Antiquity) by Duane W. Roller
• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
• A Study of History. Abridgement of Volumes 1 - 6 by D C Somervell. by Arnold Toynbee

Battle of Adowa

• A Study of History. Abridgement of Volumes 1 - 6 by D C Somervell. by Arnold Toynbee

Battle of Adrianople

• A Study of History. Abridgement of Volumes 1 - 6 by D C Somervell. by Arnold Toynbee

Battle of Ball's Bluff

• March by Geraldine Brooks (1861-10-21)

Battle of Berlin

• The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace (Modern Library Classics) by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Bunker Hill

• Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick

Battle of Cannae

• A Study of History. Abridgement of Volumes 1 - 6 by D C Somervell. by Arnold Toynbee

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Concord

• Fusiliers: The Saga of a British Redcoat Regiment in the American Revolution by Mark Urban

Battle of Leuctra

• A Study of History. Abridgement of Volumes 1 - 6 by D C Somervell. by Arnold Toynbee

Battle of Lexington

• Fusiliers: The Saga of a British Redcoat Regiment in the American Revolution by Mark Urban

Battle of Long Island

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

Battle of Lützen

• Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht (1632)

Battle of Midway

• Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway by Stephen L. Moore (1942-06-07)

Battle of Passchendaele

• A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr

Battle of Quoriston

• Foundation and Empire (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov

Battle of Solferino

• The Radetzky March (Works of Joseph Roth) by Joseph Roth

Battle of Tannenberg

• The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)

Battle of the Bulge

• Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe by Jonathan W. Jordan (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five Publisher: Dell by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Chesapeake

• In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick

Battle of the Little Bighorn

• The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick (1876-06-26)

Battle of the Marne

• The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)

Battle of the Milvian Bridge

• Constantine the Great: The Man and His Times by Michael Grant

Battle of the Somme

• A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of Trenton

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

Battle of Verdun

• Verdun: The Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War I, 1914-1918 by John Mosier (1916-12-20)

Battle of Waterloo

• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

Battle of Yorktown

• Fusiliers: The Saga of a British Redcoat Regiment in the American Revolution by Mark Urban

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• A Question of Character the Life of John F Kennedy by Thomas Reeves (1961)

Beat Generation

• On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac

Beheading game

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous

Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities fraud

• No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos

Big Bang

• The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
• The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking
• Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil Degrasse Tyson
• The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet by Robert M. Hazen
• A universe from nothing : why there is something rather than nothing by Lawrence Maxwell Krauss

Bill for the Protection of Life in Ireland

• The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith (1846)

Bleeding Kansas

• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (1859)

The Blitz

• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
• Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Bolivian Machupo Virus Outbreak

• Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (1962)

Bolshevik Revolution

• THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Vol 1 by William Henry Chamberlin (1917)

Bombing of Dresden

• Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse-Five Publisher: Dell by Kurt Vonnegut

Bonus Army Riots, Washington D.C.

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

Bosnian War

• People of the book by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)

British Association

• The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith (1847-1-1)

British Association for the Advancement of Science - founding and early years

• The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (Vintage) by Richard Holmes

British Occupation of India

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

British Public Health Act

• The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith (1848)

British Raj

• An autobiography;: The story of my experiments with truth (Beacon paperback, no. 35) by Gandhi (1947)

Brown v. Board of Education

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

Bulgarian 9 June 1923 coup d'etat

• A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1804)

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98

• The Lay of the Land (Vintage Contemporaries) by Richard Ford

Busing for School Integration--Boston

• Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas

California Constitutional Convention

• America's Great Debate by Fergus M. Bordewich

California Gold Rush

• America's Great Debate by Fergus M. Bordewich
• O PIONEERS! by Willa Cather (1848–1855)

Cambrian Explosion

• Life on Earth by David Attenborough

Catilina's Revolt

• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Cazenovia Convention

• America's Great Debate by Fergus M. Bordewich

Central African Ebola Virus Outbreaks

• Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (1976-2009)

Central Park birdwatching incident

• Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

Charleston (S.C.) Slave Insurrection, 1822

• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Chechen conflict

• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel by Anthony Marra

Christmas

• The night before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World

• Columbus: The Four Voyages by Laurence Bergreen

Classical Antiquity

• The Iliad of Homer by Homer
• Metamorphoses by Ovid
• The Odyssey (Classics) by Homer

climate change

• The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan

Cocoanut Grove Night Club fire

• Maine (Vintage Contemporaries) by J. Courtney Sullivan

COINTELPRO

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon

Cold War

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan
• The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

Colonizing the New World

• 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Communism, Decline and Renaissance

• 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson

Compromise of 1850

• America's Great Debate by Fergus M. Bordewich

Conflict of the Orders

• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Constitutional Convention

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)

Continental Congress

• First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
• John Adams by David McCullough

Corn Laws

• The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith (1846)

Council of Nicaea

• Constantine the Great: The Man and His Times by Michael Grant

COVID-19 pandemic

• Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen

Creation

• John Milton Paradise Lost by Merritt Y Hughes

Credit crunch

• The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by George Soros

Crimean War

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Bantam Classics) by Leo Tolstoy

Cuban Missile Crisis

• A Question of Character the Life of John F Kennedy by Thomas Reeves (1962)

cycling

• Richard's Bicycle Book (A Manual of Bicycle Maintenance and Enjoyment) by Richard Ballantine

D-Day

• Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe by Jonathan W. Jordan (1944-06-06)

Dalai Lama goes into exile [1959]

• Rabbit, Run by John Updike

The Day of the Dead

• Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.) by Malcolm Lowry

Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

• The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver (1997-08-31)

Death of Katherine of Aragon

• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (1536-01-07)

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1775-07-06)

Deportation of the Hungarian Jews

• Parallel Stories: A Novel by Péter Nádas (1945)

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Disaster: Infectious Disease

• The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry

Disaster: Shipwreck

• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

Discovery of Uranus

• The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (Vintage) by Richard Holmes (1781)

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel

Dreyfus Affair

• Rememberance of Things Past: Cities of the Plains by Marcel Proust

Dust Bowl

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

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Dutch Q Fever Outbreaks

• Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (2007-2009)

East Africa Campaign

• An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd

Easter

• The sportswriter by Richard Ford

Easter Rising

• Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan (1916)

EgyptAir Flight 990 disaster

• The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert Trivers

elections

• Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck (John F. Kennedy)

Elizabethan Era

• William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Emancipation Proclamation

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1863-01-01)

Embargo Act

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1807)

Emu War

• Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel

English Renaissance

• William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Enlightenment

• The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
• A modest proposal by Jonathan Swift

Establishment of Israel

• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (1948)

European migrant crisis

• Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray (2015)

Evacuation of Boston

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-03)

evolution

• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage) by Neil Shubin

Execution of Anne Boleyn

• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (1536-05-19)

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson

Exposition Universelle

• The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (1900)

Expulsion of the Jews in Spain

• People of the book by Geraldine Brooks

Extinction of Homo sapiens

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Extinction of the dinosaurs

• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]

• White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith

Fall of the Roman Empire

• Fall of the Roman Empire by Arther Ferrill

Federalist Era

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

Fin de siècle

• The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
• How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton

Financial Crisis of 2007-2010

• 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson (2010)

Financial Crisis of 2008

• All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean
• Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
• The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History by Gregory Zuckerman

Financial Crisis of 2012

• Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

First Barbary War

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1801–1805)

First cattle drive from Texas to Montana

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

First Hot Air Balloon Flights

• The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (Vintage) by Richard Holmes

First Silesian War

• Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma by Robert B. Asprey (1740-1742)

Frankenstein - writing of

• The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (Vintage) by Richard Holmes

French Revolution

• The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1799)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1789)
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1789-1799)

Fugitive Slave Law

• America's Great Debate by Fergus M. Bordewich

Galactic Civil War

• Foundation and Empire (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov

General Strike of 1926

• Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library) by Evelyn Waugh

George Washington's Farewell Address

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

George Washington's First Inauguration

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1789-04-30)

Gettysburg Address

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1863-11)

Gilded Age

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The House of Mirth (Wordsworth Classics) by Edith Wharton

Glorious Revolution

• The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson

Golden Age of Comic Books

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Good Friday Agreement, Belfast

• The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver (1998-04-10)

Great Depression

• The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Peguin Classics) by Wallace Stegner
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Franklin D Roosevelt And The New Deal by William E. Leuchtenburg
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Mary Coin: A Novel by Marisa Silver
• New York by Edward Rutherfurd
• 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
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1930s)

The Great Exhibition

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (1851)

Great Famine

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (1852)

Great Fire of London

• London: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd (1666)
• The Shorter Pepys by Robert Latham (1666)

Great Fire of Smyrna

• A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

• Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire

Great Moderation

• The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan

Great Plague of London

• The Shorter Pepys by Robert Latham (1665)

Great Recession

• 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson (2010)

The Great Replacement

• Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray

Great Sioux War

• The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick (1877)

Great Smog of '52

• Dominion by C.J. Sansom (1952-12-05)

The Great Stink

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

Greco-Turkish War

• A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
• Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Guernica

• The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre

Guy Fawkes Night

• The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Haitian Revolution

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1791–1804)

Halley's Comet

• The comet is coming : the feverish legacy of Mr. Halley by Nigel Calder

Hamilton–Reynolds affair

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1797)

Harlem Renaissance

• Passing (Penguin Classics) by Nella Larsen

Hellenistic Period

• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Hendra Virus Outbreak

• Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (1994)

Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson (1930-01-30)

Holocaust

• Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) by W.G. Sebald
• Comedy in a Minor Key: A Novel by Hans Keilson
• Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy by Viktor E Frankl
• Mother Night: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
• Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
• People of the book by Geraldine Brooks
• The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
• Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ( 1945)
• Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife by Francine Prose (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon (1945)

human evolution

• A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
• The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel Lieberman

Human Genome Project

• A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes by Adam Rutherford

human migration

• A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes by Adam Rutherford

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

• Parallel Stories: A Novel by Péter Nádas (1956)

Hurricane Donna

• Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck (1960)

Industrial Revolution

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
• Hard Times: for These Times (English Library) by Charles Dickens

Influenza pandemic

• The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Peguin Classics) by Wallace Stegner (1918)
• The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry (1918)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)

Interbellum

• Franklin D Roosevelt And The New Deal by William E. Leuchtenburg (1939)
• The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age by Juliet Nicolson (1939)

Invention of Miner's Safety Lamp

• The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (Vintage) by Richard Holmes (1816)

Iran-Contra Affair

• An American Life: The Autobiography by Ronald Reagan

Iraq War

• American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle
• Redeployment by Phil Klay
• The Good Soldiers by David Finkel (2011)
• The Hole We're In by Gabrielle Zevin (March 20, 2003 - present)

Iraqi war

• Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

Irish Arms Bill

• The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith (1807)

Irish Famine of 1839

• The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith

Irish Fever Bill

• The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith (1847-4-27)

Irish Poor Law Act

• The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith (1838)

Irish Poor Law Extension Bill

• The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith (1847)

Irish Potato Famine

• The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan
• The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith (1849)

Italian Renaissance

• The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli by Niccolò Machiavelli

Jacobean Era

• William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Japanese occupation of Malaya 1941-45

• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Japanese-American Internment

• Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson (1945)

Jay Treaty

• First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1794)

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age by Juliet Nicolson
• This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald

John Adams Presidency

• First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
• John Adams by David McCullough

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (18)
• Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1859-10-18)

Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul

• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard