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11th century

• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1000s)

12th century

• A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E. L. Konigsburg (1100s)

16th century

• Romeo and Juliet: Oxford School Shakespeare (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) by William Shakespeare (1500s)

17th century

• The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy by Countess of D'Aulnoy (1600s)
• Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (1600s)
• Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1600s)
• Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1600s)

1870s

• The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge

1937 Recession

• A Year down Yonder by Richard Peck

Age of Sail

• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy Adkins

Amarna Period

• The Lost Queen of Egypt by Lucile Morrison

American Civil War

• Flight into Spring (Living History Library) by Bianca Bradbury
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink (1865)
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck Centennial Edition by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco (1865)
• Private Captain: A Story of Gettysburg by Marty Crisp (1865)
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (1865)
• The Red Badge of Courage (Dover Thrift Editions) by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776)

American Enlightenment

• The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb

American Revolution

• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 1776 by David McCullough (1783)
• Common Sense (Penguin Books for Political Science) by Thomas Paine (1783)
• The Fiddler's Gun (Fin's Revolution: Book I) by A. S. Peterson (1783)
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes (1783)
• Phoebe the Spy by Judith Griffin (1783)
• The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1783)
• The Winter at Valley Forge: Survival and Victory by James E. Knight (1783)
• John Adams by David McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

Anglo-Spanish War

• Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall (1604)

Apollo 11

• Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh (1969-07-24)

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

• Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh (1969-07-20)

Apollo program

• Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh (1975)

Appin murder

• Kidnapped (Puffin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)

Armageddon

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman

Arno River flood

• The Sixteen Pleasures: A Novel by Robert Hellenga (November 1966)

Arthurian England

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Mark Twain

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (

• Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) by Bill O'Reilly

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii 1941 (Dear America Series) by Barry Denenberg (1941)

Autumn Feast

• The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia, Full-Color Collector's Edition) by C. S. Lewis

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club) by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle of Agincourt

• Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall (1415-10-25)

Battle of Bosworth Field

• Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall (1485-08-22)

Battle of Copenhagen

• The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy Adkins

Battle of Crécy

• Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall (1346-08-26)

Battle of Dunkirk

• The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico (1940-06-04)

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Gettysburg

• Private Captain: A Story of Gettysburg by Marty Crisp (1863-07-03)

Battle of Long Island

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

Battle of Marathon

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus (490 BCE)

Battle of Salamis

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE-09)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of the Nile

• The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy Adkins (1798-08-03)

Battle of Thermopylae

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE)

Battle of Trenton

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

Battle of Waterloo

• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1815)
• The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy Adkins (1815-06-18)

Beheading game

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by Jessie L. Weston

Birth of Christ

• The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History by A. Kenneth Curtis (Luke 2)

Black Death

• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli

Blitzkrieg

• The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix

Bosnian War

• Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic (1992-1995)

Boxer Rebellion

• Jonathan Goforth (Men of Faith) by Rosalind Goforth

British Enlightenment

• The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb

British Occupation of India

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

British Raj

• Kim (Wordsworth Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (1947)

Burning of Washington

• Washington City Is Burning by Harriette G Robinet (1814)

California Gold Rush

• By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman (1848–1855)
• O Pioneers! (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Willa Cather (1848–1855)

Chilean Coup

• A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende

Cholera Epidemic

• The Secret Garden (HarperClassics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christmas

• Babar and Father Christmas by Jean de Brunhoff
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Christmas Donkey (Christmas Around the World) by Alta Halverson Seymour
• Christmas Stories: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes & The Cricket on the Hearth By Charles Dickens (Junior Deluxe Editions) 1955 Hardcover
• Cranberry Christmas (Cranberryport) by Wende Devlin
• The Gift of the Magi (Holiday Classics Illustrated by P.j. Lynch) by O. Henry
• The Joy of a Peanuts Christmas: 50 Years of Holiday Comics! by Charles M. Schulz
• Letters From Father Christmas, Centenary Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (Hesperus Minor Classics) by L. Frank Baum
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
• Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, No 1) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell
• The Miracle of Saint Nicholas (Golden Key Books) by Gloria Whelan
• More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
• The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity by John McManners
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by John Irving
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by Jessie L. Weston

Christmas Day

• Letters From Father Christmas, Centenary Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden

Christmas Eve

• Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann
• Snowmen At Christmas by Caralyn Buehner
• The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden
• The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston

Christmas pageant

• Great Joy (midi edition) by Kate DiCamillo

Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Clutter family murder

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)

Cold War

• Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
• The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club) by Barbara Kingsolver
• Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carré

Collapse of the Pemberton Mill

• Mill by David Macaulay

Colonial Era

• Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry by Edwin Tunis

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David McCullough

Coronation of Aragorn

• Masterpieces of world literature in digest form by Frank N. Magill

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Creation

• The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History by A. Kenneth Curtis (Genesis 1-2)

Creation of man

• D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Creation of the world

• D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire

Crimean War

• Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall (1856)

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History by A. Kenneth Curtis (Luke 23)

Cuban Missile Crisis

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

death

• Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs by Tomie DePaola

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch (The World's Classics) by George Eliot

Death of the White Witch

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

December 23, 1918

• The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston

Disaster: Hurricane

• Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

DomDaniel is Defeated

• Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book 1) by Angie Sage

Doolittle Raid

• 30 SECONDS OVER TOKYO by Captain Ted W Lawson

Dreamtime

• Australian Legendary Tales by K Langloh Parker

Dunkirk Evacuation

• The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico (1940-06-04)

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold
• Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935 (Dear America Series) by Katelan Janke
• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (1931 ∙ 1939)

Easter

• The Easter Story by Brian Wildsmith
• More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
• The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity by John McManners

Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt

• The Lost Queen of Egypt by Lucile Morrison

Election of John F. Kennedy

• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Elizabethan Era

• The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton by Eustace M. Tillyard
• Good Queen Bess : The Story of Elizabeth I of England by Diane Stanley
• Towers in the Mist by Elizabeth Goudge

English Civil War

• The Child from the Sea by Elizabeth Goudge
• Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution (The History of England, 3) by Peter Ackroyd
• The White Witch by Elizabeth Goudge
• The Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat (1651)

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

• The Pirates of Pompeii (The Roman Mysteries) by Caroline Lawrence (79)

Evacuation of Boston

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-03)

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
• The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Fall of France

• The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico (1940-06-22)

Fall of Man

• The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History by A. Kenneth Curtis (Genesis 3)

Fall of Rome

• City of God (Penguin Classics) by St. Augustine

Federal era

• Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry by Edwin Tunis

Federalist Era

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

First powered airplane flight by the Wright brothers

• Young Orville & Wilbur Wright: First to Fly (First-Start Biographies) by Andrew Woods (1903-12-17)

Founding of New Milford, Connecticut, USA

• The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (1707)

Fourth of July

• The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) by Ellen Raskin

Freedom Ride

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

French and Indian War

• Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare (1763)

French Enlightenment

• The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb

French Resistance

• For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

French Revolution

• The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1799)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)

Galactic Civil War

• William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope: 4 by Ian Doescher

Galveston Hurricane of 1900

• Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

Georgian Era

• The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy Adkins (1837)

Gettysburg Campaign

• Private Captain: A Story of Gettysburg by Marty Crisp (1863)

A Glenbrooke Christmas

• Secrets (Glenbrooke, Book 1) by Robin Jones Gunn ( tt13197624)

Glorious Revolution

• Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution (The History of England, 3) by Peter Ackroyd

The gorilla steals Joe's keys and lets the zoo animals out of their cages.

• Goodnight, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

Great Depression

• The Gardener (Caldecott Honor Award) by Sarah Stewart
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Lila: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
• Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935 (Dear America Series) by Katelan Janke
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Depression

• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

The Great Exhibition

• England in the Nineteenth Century (The Pelican History of England) by David Thomson (1851)

Great Fire of London

• Forever Amber (Rediscovered Classics) by Kathleen Winsor

Great Game

• Kim (Wordsworth Classics) by Rudyard Kipling

Great War

• The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston

Greco-Persian Wars

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus (449 BCE)

Guy Fawkes Night

• More About Paddington by Michael Bond

Halloween

• The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) by Ellen Raskin

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God RI by Zora Neale Hurston

Holocaust

• The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix
• Hana's Suitcase (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards)) by Karen Levine
• Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
• Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Art Spiegelman
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• One Eye Laughing, The Other Eye Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York 1938 (Dear America Series) by Barry Denenberg
• Tell No One Who You Are by Walter Buchignani
• The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig (1945)
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (1945)
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)

Hundred Days

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

Hundred Years' War

• Joan Of Arc (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) by Diane Stanley (1453)
• Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall (1453)

Hurricane Donna

• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (1960)

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

• Their Eyes Were Watching God RI by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

The Industrial Revolution

• Mill by David Macaulay

Industrial Revolution

• Hard Times (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens

Influenza pandemic

• Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan (1918)

Iran-Contra Affair

• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by John Irving (1990)

Iranian Revolution

• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (1979)

Jabez's prayer recorded in 1 Chronicles 4:10

• The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life by Bruce H. Wilkinson

Jack Cade's Rebellion

• Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall (1450)

Jacobite Rebellion

• Kidnapped (Puffin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Jazz Age

• Their Eyes Were Watching God RI by Zora Neale Hurston

John Adams Presidency

• John Adams by David McCullough

July Revolution

• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1830)

June Rebellion

• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1832)

Klondike Gold Rush

• O Pioneers! (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Willa Cather (1899)
• White Fang (Scholastic Classics) by Jack London (1899)
• The Call of the Wild (Scribner Classics) by Jack London (1898)

Krakatoa Eruption

• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (1883)

Kristallnacht

• The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix

Late Cretaceous

• Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, No. 1) by Mary Pope Osborne

Lewis and Clark Expedition

• A Picture Book of Sacagawea (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler (1806)
• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose (1806)

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night by Elie Wiesel

The Matching Banquet

• Matched by Ally Condie

Mexican Revolution

• Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1910-1920)

The Moon Landing

• The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield

Mouse meets Fox

• The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

Mouse meets Gruffalo

• The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

Mouse meets Owl

• The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

Mouse meets Snake

• The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

Mouse tricks all of them

• The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

Napoleonic Wars

• Mansfield Park (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Jane Austen
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas Pere (1815)
• The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy Adkins (1815)
• PERSUASION, Complete & Unabridged, Collector's Library by Jane Austen (1815)

New Kingdom of Egypt

• The Lost Queen of Egypt by Lucile Morrison

New Orleans school desegregation crisis

• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

New Year's Day

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by Jessie L. Weston
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien

New York World's Fair

• Wonderstruck: A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick (1965)

Night of the Long Knives

• The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix

The Noble Experiment

• I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson

November 11, 1918

• The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston

Okeechobee hurricane

• Their Eyes Were Watching God RI by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)

Olympic Games

• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1936)

Olympic Games, 2012

• Lethal White (A Cormoran Strike Novel, 4) by Robert Galbraith

Olympische spelen Londen, 2012

• Lethal White (A Cormoran Strike Novel, 4) by Robert Galbraith

Operation Flash

• The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix

Operation Valkyrie

• The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix

Osage murders

• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Partition of India

• The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

Peasants' Revolt

• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

Peshtigo Fire

• The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer (1871)

plagues

• Forever Amber (Rediscovered Classics) by Kathleen Winsor (Great Plague of London, 1665)

Post-Reconstruction

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Reconstruction Ends)

Protestant Reformation

• This Was John Calvin by Thea B. Van Halsema

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Ragnarok

• D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire

Reconstruction

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Reformation

• The Reformation (The Penguin History of the Church) (v. 3) by Owen Chadwick

Reign of Amasis II

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus

Reign of Cambyses II

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens

Reign of Titus

• The Pirates of Pompeii (The Roman Mysteries) by Caroline Lawrence (81-09-13)

Resurrection of Christ

• The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History by A. Kenneth Curtis (Luke 24)

Return of Father Christmas

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

Revolución industrial

• Hard Times (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens

Revolutionary War

• Benjamin Franklin by Ingri D'Aulaire

Romantic Movement

• The Romantic Revolution: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Tim Blanning

Royal marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton

• Career of Evil (A Cormoran Strike Novel, 3) by Robert Galbraith

Rumble in the Jungle

• The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club) by Barbara Kingsolver

Russian Civil War

• The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer

Santa Fe Trail

• Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling

Santon Festival

• The Christmas Donkey (Christmas Around the World) by Alta Halverson Seymour

Scarlet Fever Epidemic

• The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real (The Classic Edition) by Margery Williams

Second Boer War, 1899-1902

• A Little Princess (Sterling Unabridged Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Second Crusade

• A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E. L. Konigsburg

Second Persian Invasion of Greece

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus (479 BCE)

Siege of Orléans

• Joan Of Arc (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) by Diane Stanley (1429)

Signing of the Declaration of Independence

• Benjamin Franklin by Ingri D'Aulaire

Signing of the U.S. Declaration of Indepence

• 1776 by David McCullough

Sinking of the Lusitania

• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Snow Winter

• The Long Winter (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1880-1881)

Solar eclipse

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Mark Twain

Spanish Civil War

• A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende

strike

• Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin

Thanksgiving

• Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving by Eric Metaxas
• Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac
• Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes
• The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh

Third Crusade

• Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics) by Sir Walter Scott

Thirty Years' War

• Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (1648)

Trojan War

• The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil
• Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of 'The Iliad' by Rosemary Sutcliff
• The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy by Padraic Colum
• A Fair Wind for Troy (Greek Myths) by Doris Gates
• The Odyssey (Vintage classics) by Homer
• Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry
• The Windswept City: A Novel of the Trojan War by Henry Treece

Twenty-Sixth Dynasty of Egypt

• The Histories (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Herodotus

Underground Railroad

• Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott Honor Book) by Carole Boston Weatherford
• Thee, Hannah! by Marguerite De Angeli

United States Presidential Election 1960

• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Valentine's Day

• Cranberry Valentine (Cranberryport) by Wende Devlin

Victorian Era

• A Death in the Small Hours: A Mystery (Charles Lenox Mysteries, 6) by Charles Finch

Vietnam War

• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by John Irving (1975)

War of 1812

• Washington City Is Burning by Harriette G Robinet (1815)

Wars of the Roses

• The black arrow; a tale of the two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1485)
• Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall (1485)

Washington Presidency

• John Adams by David McCullough

Wednesday Afternoons

• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

Westward Expansion

• Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling

Winter

• Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World War I

• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
• The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix
• Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick
• All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck Centennial Edition by John Steinbeck (1918)

World War II

• All Things Wise and Wonderful: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor (All Creatures Great and Small) by James Herriot
• The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix
• In My Father's House: The Years Before "The Hiding Place" 1St edition by Corrie Ten Boom (1976) Hardcover by Corrie Ten Boom
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
• A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
• The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club) by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
• A Seperate Peace
• Tramp for the Lord by Corrie Ten Boom
• A Year down Yonder by Richard Peck
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell (1945)
• Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher (1945)
• The Bear Nobody Wanted by Janet Ahlberg (1945)
• The Borrowed House by Hilda Van Stockum (1945)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1945)
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)
• The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig (1945)
• For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (1945)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (1945)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (1945)
• Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (1945)
• Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Art Spiegelman (1945)
• No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1945)
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1945)
• One Eye Laughing, The Other Eye Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York 1938 (Dear America Series) by Barry Denenberg (1945)
• The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico (1945)
• Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (1945)
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1945)
• The Winged Watchman (Living History Library) by Hilda Van Stockum (1945)
• The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria A Trapp (1939-1945)

World War II, American Home Front

• No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin

World War II, British Home Front

• The Bear Nobody Wanted by Janet Ahlberg
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis

World War II, German Occupation of Denmark

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1945-05-05)

World War II, German Occupation of France

• For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (1944)

World War II, German Occupation of Norway

• Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (1945-05-08)

World War II, German Occupation of the Channel Islands

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (1945)

World War II, German Occupation of the Netherlands

• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Little Riders by Margaretha Shemin
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (1945-05-05)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (1945-09-02)

World War III

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's Game (Ender Saga) by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)

Yellow Fever Epidemic

• Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (1793)

Yule

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by Jessie L. Weston