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13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

1842 Retreat from Kabul

• The Return of a King by William Dalrymple

18th century

• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens

1964 Presidential Election

• Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy by Edward H. Miller

19th century

• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père
• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
• The Red Badge of Courage / The Veteran by Stephen Crane

5th century BCE

• The Art of War (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Sun Tzu

9/11 Terrorist Attacks

• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Twin Towers and Pentagon

• Wraith by James R. Hannibal

Afghan War

• Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander by Gary Berntsen

Afghan Wars

• Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn
• The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (2001-)
• One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel C. Fick (2001-)

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama by Wayne Greenhaw (1965)

Age of Sail

• Nelson And The Nile by Brian Lavery

Alcatraz Island occupation

• Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee by Paul Chaat Smith (1971-06-11)

Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham

American Civil War

• Grant Comes East (Gettysburg) by Newt Gingrich
• Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
• How Few Remain (Southern Victory) by Harry Turtledove
• The Red Badge of Courage / The Veteran by Stephen Crane
• Stars & Stripes Forever (Stars & Stripes, Book 1) by Harry Harrison
• Stars & Stripes Triumphant (Stars and Stripes, No. 3) by Harry Harrison
• Stars and Stripes in Peril (Stars & Stripes Trilogy) by Harry Harrison
• Valley of the Shadow by Ralph Peters
• 1862: A Novel by Robert Conroy (1865)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (1865)
• The Battle of the Crater: A Novel (George Washington Series) by Newt Gingrich (1865)
• Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson (1865)
• A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh (A Novel of the Civil War) by Jeff Shaara (1865)
• Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century) by Cherie Priest (1865)
• Bring the Jubilee (S.F. Masterworks) by Ward Moore (1865)
• A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg (A Novel of the Civil War) by Jeff Shaara (1865)
• The Civil War (American Heritage Books) by Bruce Catton (1865)
• The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Volume Set) by Shelby Foote (1865)
• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1865)
• Davis and Lee at War (Modern War Studies) (Modern War Studies (Hardcover)) by Steven E. Woodworth (1865)
• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1865)
• The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War by Jeff Shaara (1865)
• Freedom by William Safire (1865)
• The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury (1865)
• Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War by Newt Gingrich (1865)
• Gettysburg: An Alternate History by Peter G. Tsouras (1865)
• Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara (1865)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1865)
• The Last Full Measure: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Jeff Shaara (1865)
• Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command by Douglas Southall Freeman (1865)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1865)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (1865)
• Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory (Gettysburg) by Newt Gingrich (1865)
• New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd (1865)
• North and South (North and South Trilogy Part One) by John Jakes (1865)
• Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South by Christopher Dickey (1865)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1865)
• Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot A. Cohen (1865)
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)
• The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomatox- Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their Brothers by John C. Waugh (1861-1865)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

American Indian Movement

• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen
• Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

American Revolution

• New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1783)
• Common Sense (Penguin Great Ideas) by Thomas Paine (1783)
• The Glorious Cause (The American Revolutionary War) by Jeff Shaara (1783)
• Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution (The American Revolutionary War) by Jeff Shaara (1783)

The Anarchy

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( 1153)

Anglo Saxon period

• The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1066)

Angolan Civil War

• In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story by John Stockwell

Anti-Rent War

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

Apache Wars

• The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History by Paul Andrew Hutton

Arab Revolt

• Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson (1918)
• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (1918)

Arab Spring

• Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution by Wendell Steavenson

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.) by Jay Winik
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1865-04)

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
• The Trigger: A Journey Through the Land and Legend of the Teenager Who Led the World to War

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower
• Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy by Edward H. Miller (1963-11-22)

Atkins v. Virginia

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg (2002)

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Cat's Cradle (Essential Penguin) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• The Final Storm: A Novel of the War in the Pacific (World War II) by Jeff Shaara (1945)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1945)
• Truman by David McCullough (1945)
• Year Zero: A History of 1945 (Ala Notable Books for Adults) by Ian Buruma (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange (1941-12-07)
• Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta (1941-12-07)
• The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War by William B. Hopkins (1941-12-07)
• Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th by Newt Gingrich (1941-12-07)
• Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (1941-12-07)

The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II

• Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy (1981-05-13)

Attica Prison Riot

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

author signed

• The Apostle (Scot Harvath, Book 8) by Brad Thor

Bacon's Rebellion

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

Banquet of Chestnuts

• Blood & Beauty: The Borgias; A Novel by Sarah Dunant (1501)

Barack Obama's presidency

• From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir by Beck Dorey-Stein

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Agincourt

• Face of Battle by John Keegan (1415-10-25)

Battle of Badr

• It's All About Muhammad: A Biography of the World's Most Notorious Prophet by F. W. Burleigh (624-03-13)

Battle of Ball's Bluff

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

Battle of Bosworth Field

• The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman (1485-08-22)

Battle of Bracciano

• Blood & Beauty: The Borgias; A Novel by Sarah Dunant (1496)

Battle of Breitenfeld

• 1632 (Ring of Fire) by Eric Flint

Battle of Britain

• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1940)
• Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (1940)

Battle of Cerro Gordo

• Gone For Soldiers by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of Chancellorsville

• Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

Battle of Chapultepec

• Gone For Soldiers by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of Churubusco

• Gone For Soldiers by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of Contreras

• Gone For Soldiers by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of Cross Keys

• Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson (1862-06-08)

Battle of Cynwit

• The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (878)

Battle of El Alamein

• An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (The Liberation Trilogy, Vol. 1) by Rick Atkinson

Battle of Fort Sumter

• North and South (North and South Trilogy Part One) by John Jakes (1861-04-14)

Battle of Fredericksburg

• Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

Battle of Gettysburg

• Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War by Newt Gingrich (1863-07-03)
• Gettysburg: An Alternate History by Peter G. Tsouras (1863-07-03)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)

Battle of Iwo Jima

• The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War by William B. Hopkins (1945)

Battle of Kasserine Pass

• An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (The Liberation Trilogy, Vol. 1) by Rick Atkinson
• The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara (1943-02-24)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Leyte Gulf

• The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War by William B. Hopkins (1944-10-26)

Battle of Ligny

• Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell (1815-06-16)

Battle of Mallavelly

• Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (1799)

Battle of Mexico City

• Gone For Soldiers by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of Midway

• The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War by William B. Hopkins (1942-06-07)

Battle of Molino del Rey

• Gone For Soldiers by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of New Orleans

• Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands

Battle of Okinawa

• The Final Storm: A Novel of the War in the Pacific (World War II) by Jeff Shaara (1945)
• The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War by William B. Hopkins (1945)

Battle of Quatre Bras

• Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell (1815-06-16)

Battle of Shiloh

• A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh (A Novel of the Civil War) by Jeff Shaara (1862-04-07)

Battle of Stalingrad

• War of the Rats by David L. Robbins (1943)

Battle of Stoney Creek

• 1812: The Rivers of War (The Trail of Glory) by Eric Flint

Battle of Sultanpettah Tope

• Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (1799)

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 Atlantic

• Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy (1945)

Battle of the Bulge

• No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara
• Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe by Jonathan W. Jordan (1945)

Battle of the Crater

• The Battle of the Crater: A Novel (George Washington Series) by Newt Gingrich (1864)

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 Nile

• Nelson And The Nile by Brian Lavery (1798-08-03)

Battle of the Somme

• Face of Battle by John Keegan (1916)

Battle of the Trench

• It's All About Muhammad: A Biography of the World's Most Notorious Prophet by F. W. Burleigh (627-03-31)

Battle of Uhud

• It's All About Muhammad: A Biography of the World's Most Notorious Prophet by F. W. Burleigh (625-03-19)

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Waterloo

• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
• Waterloo: A New History by Gordon Corrigan
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1815)
• Face of Battle by John Keegan (1815-06-18)
• Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell (1815-06-18)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Battle of York

• The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (867-03-21)

Battles for Port Morsby, Kokoda Trail, Buna, Biak

• Long Walk To The Sun (Jock Miles WW2 Adventure, #1) by William Peter Grasso

Berlin Wall

• The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War by James Graham Wilson

Black Death

• The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer
• World Without End by Ken Follett
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1350)

Black Hawk War

• Life, Death, and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds: A Settlers' Fortification of the Black Hawk War by Robert A. Birmingham (1832)

The Blitz

• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1941)
• Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (1940)

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Bloody Sunday

• Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, Book One) by Ken Follett (1905)

Bombing of Dresden

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

Bombing of Libya

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

Bosnian War

• The Trigger: A Journey Through the Land and Legend of the Teenager Who Led the World to War
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (1992-1995)

Boston Massacre

• Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution (The American Revolutionary War) by Jeff Shaara (1770)

Bronze Age

• Island in the Sea of Time by S. M. Stirling

Building of the Panama Canal

• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 by David McCullough

Burlington, Vermont 2009 mayoral election

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

California Gold Rush

• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1855)

Capture of Perote

• Gone For Soldiers by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Chilean Coup

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

Christmas

• A Christmas Carol (Great Stories) by Charles Dickens
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
• Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas (P.S.) by John Baxter

Church Committee

• In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story by John Stockwell

Civil war in Afghanistan

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Penguin Books) by Steve Coll

climate crisis

• What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice by Wen Stephenson

COINTELPRO

• Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (South End Press Classics) by Ward Churchill
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Cold War

• Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War by David E. Murphy
• Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag
• The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
• The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman
• Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
• From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War by Robert M. Gates
• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
• One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson
• Rising Tide: The Untold Story Of The Russian Submarines That Fought The Cold War by Gary E. Weir
• A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
• Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War by Antonio Mendez
• The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War by James Graham Wilson
• A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Patrick Tyler

Cold War arms race

• The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War by James Graham Wilson

Communism

• The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War by James Graham Wilson

Council of Nicaea

• Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Creation of Turkey

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

Creek War

• Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands

Crusades

• Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
• One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs (1962)

Cultural Revolution

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Cyclone Lothar

• The Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden by Alain Baraton (1999-12-26)

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)

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms

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

Dedication of the Glen Canyon Dam

• The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.) by Edward Abbey (1966)

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Discovery of the source of the Nile River

• Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal

Dissolution of the Monasteries

• Tudor Monastery Farm: Life in Rural England 500 Years Ago by Peter Ginn (1541)

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Donald J. Trump presidency

• Front row at the Trump show by Jonathan Karl

Donald Trump presidency

• Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly (2017-2021)

Dorr Rebellion

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

Dred Scott Decision

• North and South (North and South Trilogy Part One) by John Jakes

Dreyfus Affair

• An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
• A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

Ebola Reston discovery

• The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston (1989)

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Edwardian Era

• Edwardian Farm by Ruth Goodman

El Mozote Massacre

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

Election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the USA

• North and South (North and South Trilogy Part One) by John Jakes (1860)

Election of Jefferson Davis provisional president of Confederate States

• North and South (North and South Trilogy Part One) by John Jakes (1861)

Elizabethan Era

• The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer

Emancipation Proclamation

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1863-01-01)

Embargo Act

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

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Establishment of Israel

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (1948)

evolution

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

Expulsion of the Jews in Spain

• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Fall of Constantinople

• Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich

Fall of Rome

• Lest Darkness Fall (Pyramid SF, F-817) by L. Sprague De Camp

Fall of Saigon

• American Warrior: The True Story of a Legendary Ranger by Gary O'Neal

February Revolution

• Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, Book One) by Ken Follett (1917)

Feminist Movement

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

First Anglo-Afghan War

• The Return of a King by William Dalrymple (1842)

First Barbary War

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

First Russian-Chechen War

• Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings by Brian Glyn Williams (1994-1996)

Florida 2000 presidential election

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

Flour Riot of 1837

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

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

• Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (1799)

Franklin's Lost Expedition

• Discovering the North-West Passage: The Four-Year Arctic Odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the Mcclure Expedition by Glenn M. Stein

Freedom Ride

• Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett

French and Indian War

• Shadowbrook: A Novel of Love, War, and the Birth of America by Beverly Swerling

French Revolution

• The Book of Lost Fragrances: A Novel of Suspense by M. J. Rose
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1789-1799)

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• North and South (North and South Trilogy Part One) by John Jakes

Genesis creation narrative

• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

George Washington's First Inauguration

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

Georgian Era

• Nelson And The Nile by Brian Lavery (1837)

Gettysburg Address

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1863-11)

Gettysburg Campaign

• Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War by Newt Gingrich (1863)
• Gettysburg: An Alternate History by Peter G. Tsouras (1863)
• The Last Full Measure: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Jeff Shaara (1863)
• The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1863-07)

Gilded Age

• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1900)

Glorious Revolution

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Great Boston Fire of 1872

• The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer by Roseanne Montillo

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
• New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1930s)

The Great Exhibition

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

Great Fire of London

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Great Game

• The Return of a King by William Dalrymple

Great Leap Forward

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

The Great Stink

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

Greek Civil War

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1949)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War by William B. Hopkins (1943-02-09)

Gulf War, 1990-1991

• Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford

Haitian Revolution

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

Haun's Mill Massacre

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Oct 30, 1838)

Haymarket Massacre

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

Hollandia

• Long Walk To The Sun (Jock Miles WW2 Adventure, #1) by William Peter Grasso

Holocaust

• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (1945)

Hundred Days

• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père ( 1815-07-08)

Hundred Years' War

• Timeline by Michael Crichton (1453)

Hurricane Katrina

• Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina by Ronnie Greene
• Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Ala Notable Books for Adults) by Sheri Fink (2005)

Iconoclastic Controversy

• Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich

Impeachment and Trial of President Bill Clinton

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

Inauguration of Barack Obama

• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

Inauguration of George H. W. Bush

• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

Inauguration of George W. Bush

• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

Inauguration of Jimmy Carter

• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

Inauguration of John F. Kennedy

• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

Inauguration of Richard Nixon

• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

Inauguration of Ronald Reagan

• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

Inauguration of William "Bill" Clinton

• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

India-Pakistan Conflict

• Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari (1949)

Indian independence

• Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre

Indira Ghandi's assassination

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Indonesian Invasion of East Timor

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

Industrial Revolution

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

Invasion of Grenada

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

Invasion of Mexico

• The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomatox- Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their Brothers by John C. Waugh (1848)

Iran Contra Affair

• American Warrior: The True Story of a Legendary Ranger by Gary O'Neal

Iran Hostage Crisis

• Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden (1981)
• A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Patrick Tyler (1981)

Iran-Contra Affair

• A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Patrick Tyler (1990)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1986)

Iraq War

• Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
• The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War by Fred Kaplan
• Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright (2004)
• One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel C. Fick (2004)
• A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Patrick Tyler (2003-)

Iraq War, 2003-

• Pathfinder by David Blakeley

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

• The Art Forger: A Novel by B. A. Shapiro ( Largest Art Theft in History)

Italian Renaissance

• Blood & Beauty: The Borgias; A Novel by Sarah Dunant

Italian War of 1494

• Blood & Beauty: The Borgias; A Novel by Sarah Dunant ( 1498)

Italian War of 1499

• Blood & Beauty: The Borgias; A Novel by Sarah Dunant ( 1504)

Jackson's Valley Campaign

• Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson (1862)

Jacksonian Era

• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
• Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands

Jacobite Rebellion

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Japanese-American Internment

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

Jay Treaty

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1794)

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

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

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• North and South (North and South Trilogy Part One) by John Jakes (1854)
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1854)

Kidnapping of Patricia Hearsgt

• American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin

Korean War

• The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War by Jeff Shaara
• Gods of Howl Mountain: A Novel by Taylor Brown
• The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom by Blaine Harden
• The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam (1953)
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (1953)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1953)
• Truman by David McCullough (1953)

Lamar Pye, his cousin Odell and Richard Peed escape from McAlester State Penn

• Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter (fictitious)

Lebanese Civil War

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

Lemar Pye and his cousin Odell ambush Bud Pewtie and Tedd Pepper.

• Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter (fictitious)

Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
• Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier by Stephen E. Ambrose (1806)

Libyan Revolution

• Colonel Gaddafi's Hat by Alex Crawford

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1861)

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1858)

Louisiana Purchase

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham

Lyndon Johnson Election to U.S. House of Representatives 1937

• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro

Lyndon Johnson Election to U.S. Senate 1948

• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro

Lyon sisters' disappearance

• The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation by Mark Bowden (March 25, 1975)

Manhattan Project

• Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Newbery Honor Book) by Steve Sheinkin

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Marshall Plan

• Truman by David McCullough (1951)

Mayaguez incident

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

Mayflower Compact

• The Honorable Imposter: 1620 (The House of Winslow #1) by Gilbert Morris

Mesopotamian Campaign

• Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson (1918-11-14)
• 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

• Eagles and Empire: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle for a Continent by David A. Clary (1848)
• Gone For Soldiers by Jeff Shaara (1848)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1848)
• North and South (North and South Trilogy Part One) by John Jakes (1848)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1848)
• A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg (1848)

Middle Ages

• The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Redwall by Brian Jacques

Million Man March

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

Monmouth Rebellion

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson

Mountain Meadows Massacre

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Sept. 11, 1857)

Murder of Paul Castellano 12-16-1985

• Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano by Joseph F. O'Brien

My Lai Massacre

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

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

Napoleonic Wars

• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
• Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon by Dr. Rory Muir
• Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père ( 1815)
• Nelson And The Nile by Brian Lavery (1815)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke (1815)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1815)

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

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

Nazi Germany; World War II

• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

The Neutrality Proclamation

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1793)

New Deal

• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro

New York City Draft Riots

• The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury (1863-07-16)
• New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd (1863-07-16)