Book Events for txorig
Events within the books in txorig's library
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
16th century
1893 Chicago World's Fair
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire
2008 Presidential Campaign
Afghan Civil War
African-American Civil Rights Movement
Age of Sail
AIDS epidemic
American Civil War
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1865)
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride (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)
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)
American Revolution
- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
- A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
- An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon (1783)
Antebellum South
Arrival at the Library
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Astronaut Program
Bangladesh War for Independence
Bataan Death March
Battle of Culloden
Battle of Hogwarts
Battle of Monmouth Courthouse
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of the Department of Mysteries
Bleeding Kansas
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride (1859)
The Blitz
Bombing of Coventry
Bosnian War
- People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)
Boston Police Strike
British Raj
Burning of the Library of Alexandria
Cafe de Paris Bombing
- The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn (1941-03-08)
Cairo Peace Conference, 1921
California Gold Rush
- Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1855)
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (1848–1855)
Chernobyl Disaster
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
Chinese Civil War
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Cold War
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver
Copper Country Strike
- The Women of the Copper Country: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell (1913-1914)
Council of Trent
The Crucifixion
Cuban Revolution
Cultural Revolution
D-Day
Detroit Riot
Digging 'The Big Ditch' irrigation canal
Disappearance of Joe Howard Wilson
Dust Bowl Era
Election of Barack Obama to U.S. Presidency
elections
- Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (John F. Kennedy)
Emancipation Proclamation
End of the Library
Expulsion of the Jews in Spain
Fall of Saigon
Founding the Catholic Worker, 1933
Geneva Initiative
Gettysburg Address
Gilded Age
- Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1900)
Great Depression
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson
- The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Migration
The Great Molasses Flood
Greco-Turkish War
- Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)
Halley's Comet
- The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (1910)
Harlem Renaissance
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
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
- People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
- The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
- When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
- I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor by Laura Hillman
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
Holodomor
Hurricane Donna
Hurricane San Felipe Segundo
Influenza pandemic
Iranian Revolution
Jacobite Rebellion
Jacobite Rising of 1745
Japanese occupation of Malaysia
Japanese-American Internment
Jazz Age
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Korean War
Laotian Civil War
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) by Anne Fadiman
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Mary Claire Fitzhugh is abducted in 1967
Mexican Revolution
- Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel (1910-1920)
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Murder of Theo van Gogh
Napoleonic Wars
Narváez expedition
- The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami (1527-1536)
New Orleans school desegregation crisis
Night of the Long Knives
- In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson (1934-07-02)
Occupy Wall Street
- The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (2011)
Okeechobee hurricane
Olympic Games
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (1936)
Olympic Games, 2012
Olympische spelen Londen, 2012
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Vestal
Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
- The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn (1944-06-10)
Oslo Agreement
Pack Horse Library Project
Palmer Raids
Peninsula Campaign
Pentagon Papers
Polio epidemic
Pottawatomie Massacre
Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Prohibition in the United States
Reconstruction Era of the United States
Republican National Convention
Rumble in the Jungle
Russian Revolution
Rwandan Genocide
September 11 Attacks
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
- Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (2001-09-11)
- The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (2001-09-11)
Shoah
Siege of Leningrad
- The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel by Debra Dean (1944-01-27)
Sinking of the Lusitania
Smallpox Epidemic 1764
Soviet-Afghan War
- The Kite Runner Illustrated Edition by Khaled Hosseini ([1979, 1989])
Spanish Civil War
- A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1939)
Spanish Inquisition
Stanford prison experiment
- The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (1971-08)
Taliesin Murders
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (1914-08-15)
Termination Act
- The Night Watchman: A Novel by Louise Erdrich (HCR 108)
The Tri-Wizard Tournament
Trujillo dictatorship
Tsunami
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (2011)
Underground Railroad
United States presidential election
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1860, 1864)
- Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (1960)
Vel' d' Hiv'
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1942)
Vietnam War
- "O" Is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton
- The Great Alone: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
- The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (1975)
- The Lotus Eaters: A Novel by Tatjana Soli (1975)
The Volstead Act
War on Terrorism
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
Watergate Scandal
Wedding of Queen Elizabeth II, 1947
World War I
- The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
- Dreamers of the Day: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1918)
- The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King (1918)
- Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1918)
World War II
- The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
- A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
- The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: A Novel by Susan Jane Gilman
- In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
- The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn
- The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1945)
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (1945)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
- Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1945)
- The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel by Debra Dean (1945)
- Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride (1945)
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1945)
- People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (1939-1945)
World War II, German Occupation of France
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (1944)
World War II, Italian Campaign
- Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride (1945-05-02)
World's Columbian Exposition
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
WWII
Yugoslav Wars
- The Tiger's Wife: A Novel by Tea Obreht (1991-1995)