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14th century

• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio; (The Modern library of the world's best books [71]) by Giovanni Boccaccio (1300s)

1932 British Matto Grosso Expedition

• Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming

1996 Everest Disaster

• Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

9/11 Attacks

• Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh

Abu Ghraib Prison scandal

• Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh (2004)

Act of Settlement

• The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling the Smallpox Epidemic by Jennifer Lee Carrell (1701)

Afghan Wars

• Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh (2001-)

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch

Albigensian Crusade

• The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly (1209-1229)

Alchemy in Renaissance and early modern Europe

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

American Civil War

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Atlanta (Voices of the Civil War) by Time-Life Books (1865)
• The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign by Shelby Foote (1865)
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck Centennial Edition by John Steinbeck (1865)
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776)

American Revolution

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman
• 1776 by David McCullough (1783)
• American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier (1783)
• The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood (1783)
• The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon by John Ferling (1783)
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (1783)
• The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States) by Robert Middlekauff (1783)
• A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John Ferling (1783)
• The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America by Gary B. Nash (1783)
• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (1783)

Anglo-Dutch War

• The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto

Apollo program

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Arab Revolt

• REVOLT IN THE DESERT By T. E. LAWRENCE 1927 First Edition by T. E. Lawrence (1918)

Articles of Capitulation

• The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963 by Laurence Leamer (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Orlando Letelier

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (1945)
• The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections by Tom Brokaw (1945)
• Truman by David McCullough (1945)

Balfour Declaration

• The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Schneer

Balkan crisis

• Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition by Robert W. Merry

Battle of Actium

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic 2003 (Hardcover) by Tom Holland (31 BCE-09-02)

Battle of Cannae

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic 2003 (Hardcover) by Tom Holland (216 BCE-08-02)

Battle of Carrhae

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic 2003 (Hardcover) by Tom Holland (53 BCE-05-06)

Battle of Champion's Hill

• The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign by Shelby Foote (1863-05-16)

Battle of Long Island

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

Battle of New Orleans

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

Battle of Princeton

• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (1777)

Battle of Pylos

• The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan (425 BC)

Battle of Salamis

• The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization by Barry Strauss (480 BCE-09)

Battle of the Bulge

• Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) by David M. Kennedy (1945)
• The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections by Tom Brokaw (1945)

Battle of the Somme

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

Battle of Trenton

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-12-26)
• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (1776-12-26)

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Big Bang

• Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements by John Emsley

Black Death

• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio; (The Modern library of the world's best books [71]) by Giovanni Boccaccio

Bombing of Cambodia

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum

Boston Smallpox Epidemic

• The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling the Smallpox Epidemic by Jennifer Lee Carrell (1721)

Boxer Rebellion

• The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900. by Diana Preston (1901-09)

Broad Street Cholera Outbreak

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1854)

California Gold Rush

• Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel

Capture of Aqaba

• REVOLT IN THE DESERT By T. E. LAWRENCE 1927 First Edition by T. E. Lawrence

Chilean Coup

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum (1973)

Christmas

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Circumnatigation of the World

• Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen

climate change

• With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce (tipping points)

Cold War

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
• The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
• Command Of Office: How War, Secrecy and Deception Transformed the Presidency, from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Stephen Graubard
• The Fifties by David Halberstam
• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum
• Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988 by Jane Mayer
• Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition by Robert W. Merry

Colonizing the New World

• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Contra War

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum
• Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988 by Jane Mayer

Council of Trent

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

Creek War

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

The Crusades

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Cuban Revolution

• Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire

D-Day

• D-Day Illustrated Edition: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-06-06)
• The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections by Tom Brokaw (1944-06-06)
• Slightly Out of Focus (Modern Library) by Robert Capa (1944-06-06)

Dayton Literary Peace Prize Long List

• Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler (Nonfiction, 2006)

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Death of Julius Caesar

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic 2003 (Hardcover) by Tom Holland (44 BCE-03-15)

Disaster: Dam Break

• The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

Disaster: Flood

• The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

Disaster: Infectious Disease

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

Donora Smog

• When Smoke Ran Like Water by Devra Davis (1948)

Dust Bowl

• The Worst Hard Time : Timothy Egan (Paperback, 2006)

Dust Bowl Era

• A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold

East End Cholera Outbreak

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1866)

Endurance Expedition

• SOUTH (Spanish Edition) by Shackleton Ernest (Lord) (1914-1917)

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

• Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look At The Last Days Of Pompeii, How Towers F all, And Other Strange Connections by Charles R. Pellegrino (79 AD)

Evacuation of Boston

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776-03)

famines

• The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly (Great famine, 1315-1317)

Finding the Great Falls of the Missouri

• Journals of Patrick Gass, The: Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Carol Lynn MacGregor

First Crusade

• Crusades: The Illustrated History by Thomas F. Madden (1099)

Founding of Saint Petersburg

• Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes (1703)

Fourth Crusade

• Crusades: The Illustrated History by Thomas F. Madden (1204)

French and Indian War

• The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America by Walter R. Borneman (1763)

French Resistance

• In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany by Thomas Childers

French Revolution

• A Tale of Two Cities (The Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens (1789)

Gallipoli Campaign

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

global warming

• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America by Thomas L Friedman

The Great Depression

• Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir by Louis L'Amour

Great Depression

• The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
• Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) by David M. Kennedy
• The Worst Hard Time : Timothy Egan (Paperback, 2006)

Great Migration

• Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel (1843)

Great Smog of '52

• When Smoke Ran Like Water by Devra Davis

The Great Stink

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1858)

Greco-Persian Wars

• The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization by Barry Strauss (449 BCE)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• The Thin Red Line: A Novel by James Jones (1943-02-09)

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Hitler made Chancellor

• Hitler's Thirty Days To Power: Jan-33 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr

Holocaust

• Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
• Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel
• The Nightmare Years (Twentieth Century Journey, Vol 2) by William L. Shirer
• The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle (1945)
• Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews by James Carroll (1945)

Holodomor

• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (1933)

Hundred Years' War

• The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly (1337-1453)

Indonesian Invasion of East Timor

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum (1975)

Influenza pandemic

• America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby (1918)
• The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry (1918)

The Inquisition

• The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God by Jonathan Kirsch

Inquisition

• Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews by James Carroll

International Banana Festival, Fulton, KY

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Invasion of Cambodia

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Iraq War

• Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
• The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008 by Bob Woodward
• The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind
• Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency by Senator Robert C Byrd (2003-)

Irish Potato Famine

• The Great Irish Potato Famine by James S. Donnelly Jr. (1849)

Italian Renaissance

• Il Principe (Italian language version) by Niccolò Machiavelli

ITT Affair

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Jacksonian Era

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

Johnstown Flood

• The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough (1889-05-31)

the killing of Danny Hansford

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1981)

Korean War

• The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam (1953)
• Command Of Office: How War, Secrecy and Deception Transformed the Presidency, from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Stephen Graubard (1953)
• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman (1953)
• Truman by David McCullough (1953)

Laos incursion

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Journals of Patrick Gass, The: Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Carol Lynn MacGregor
• Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark by William Clark (1806)
• Lewis and Clark: Doctors in the Wilderness by Bruce C. Paton (1806)
• Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis and Clark Expedition by David J. Peck (1806)

liberation of Buchenwald

• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel

Liberation of Dachau

• The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections by Tom Brokaw

Manhattan Project

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
• Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman

Marshall Plan

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman
• Truman by David McCullough (1951)

McCarthy Era

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird

Mississippi Bubble

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Mongol Invasion of Europe

• The Mongols by David Morgan

Munich Olympics massacre

• Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response by Aaron J. Klein

murder

• The Wichita Divide: The Murder of Dr. George Tiller and the Battle over Abortion by Stephen Singular (of George Tiller)

Mutiny on the Bounty

• Fragile paradise by Glynn Christian (1789)

New York and New Jersey Campaign

• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer (1777)

Nez Perce War

• Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel J. Sharfstein

Nicaraguan Revolution

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum
• Nicaragua, June 1978 - July 1979 by Susan Meiselas

Nuisances Removal and Contagious Diseases Prevention Act

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1848)

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman (1946-10-01)

Olympic Games

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Operation Ajax

• All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum

Operation Condor

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum

Operation Overlord

• D-Day Illustrated Edition: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-08-30)
• The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections by Tom Brokaw (1944-08-30)
• Slightly Out of Focus (Modern Library) by Robert Capa (1944-08-30)

Operation PBSUCCESS

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum

Peace of Westphalia

• The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto

Peak oil

• The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent by James Howard Kunstler

Peloponnesian War

• The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan (404 BCE)

Pentagon Papers

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Phoenix Program

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum

plagues

• The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly (Black Death, 1340s, Great plague of London, 1665-1666)

Poor Law Acts

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1834)

Potsdam Conference

• The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 by Michael R. Beschloss

Public Health Act

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (1848)

Pueblo Revolt

• The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion that Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest by David Roberts (1680)

reaching the Pacific Ocean

• Journals of Patrick Gass, The: Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Carol Lynn MacGregor

The Reagan Presidency

• There is a bomb in Gilead: Tale from an uncivil war by William F Harrison

Reign of Henry VIII

• Henry VIII: The King and His Court by Alison Weir (1547-01-28)
• In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII by Robert A. Wilson (1547-01-28)

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities (The Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens

Reign of Titus

• Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look At The Last Days Of Pompeii, How Towers F all, And Other Strange Connections by Charles R. Pellegrino (81-09-13)

Renaissance

• Il Principe (Italian language version) by Niccolò Machiavelli

Republican Party Conventions

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Rise of the Third Reich

• The Nightmare Years (Twentieth Century Journey, Vol 2) by William L. Shirer

Rwandan Genocide

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch (1994)

Salvadoran Civil War

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

• A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester

Scopes Trial

• The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout (1925-07)

Second Crusade

• Crusades: The Illustrated History by Thomas F. Madden (1149)

Second Persian Invasion of Greece

• The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization by Barry Strauss (479 BCE)

Seconda Guerra Mondiale

• The Nightmare Years (Twentieth Century Journey, Vol 2) by William L. Shirer (1945)

September 11 Attacks

• The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind
• Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition by Robert W. Merry
• Bush at War by Bob Woodward (2001-09-11)
• The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians by Caleb Carr (2001-09-11)

Shooting the albatross

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Colefidge

Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi

• The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign by Shelby Foote (1863)

Signing of the U.S. Declaration of Indepence

• 1776 by David McCullough

South Sea Bubble

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Spanish-American War

• First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power by Warren Zimmermann (1898)
• The Paranoid Style in American Politics: And Other Essays (Vintage) by Richard Hofstadter (1898)

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

• Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988 by Jane Mayer

Superbowl

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Tartar Siege of Caffa

• The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly (1347)

Terra Nova Expedition

• The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by Susan Solomon (1913)

Theory of Evolution

• Charles Darwin on the Origin of Species. His around the World Voyage As a Naturalist Aboard H. M. S. Beagle (1831-36]. by David Quammen(1948- ) Charles Robert (1809-1882) / Gen. Ed Darwin

Theory of General Relativity

• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (1916)

Theory of Special Relativity

• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (1905)

Third Crusade

• Ivanhoe (Wordsworth Classics) by Sir Walter Scott
• Crusades: The Illustrated History by Thomas F. Madden (1192)

tipping points

• With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce (climate change)

Trojan War

• The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories by Philip Matyszak

Tudor Era

• Henry VIII: The King and His Court by Alison Weir (1603)
• In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII by Robert A. Wilson (1603)

Tulip mania

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Tunisian Independence

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

United States presidential election

• Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Pivotal Moments in American History Series) by John Ferling (1800)
• Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H. W. Brands (1828)
• The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 (Pivotal Moments in American History) by Lynn Hudson Parsons (1828)
• Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World by Charles Peters (1940)

Vatican Council II

• Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews by James Carroll

Vicksburg Campaign

• The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign by Shelby Foote (1863-07-04)

Vietnam War

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 by William Blum
• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman
• Command Of Office: How War, Secrecy and Deception Transformed the Presidency, from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Stephen Graubard (1975)
• Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow (1975)

Voyage of the HMS Beagle

• Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary (1831-1836) by Charles Darwin

War of 1812

• Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H. W. Brands (1812-1815)

War of the Spanish Succession

• The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles by Nancy Mitford

War on Poverty

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

War on Terrorism

• Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency by Senator Robert C Byrd
• The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind
• The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (1968)

Watergate Scandal

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

Westward Expansion

• Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel

Westward Movement

• Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel

Westward Movement , discovery of gold in California

• Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel

Whitewater

• Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Witch trials in the early modern period

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

World Cup

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

World Series

• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman

World War I

• The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Cecil Parrott
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
• Command Of Office: How War, Secrecy and Deception Transformed the Presidency, from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Stephen Graubard (1918)
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck Centennial Edition by John Steinbeck (1918)
• The First World War by John Keegan (1918)
• The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry (1918)
• REVOLT IN THE DESERT By T. E. LAWRENCE 1927 First Edition by T. E. Lawrence (1918)
• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman (1918)

World War II

• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
• Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir by Louis L'Amour
• The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
• Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
• Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel
• 1984 by George Orwell (1945)
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (1945)
• Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany by Marthe Cohn (1945)
• Command Of Office: How War, Secrecy and Deception Transformed the Presidency, from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Stephen Graubard (1945)
• The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 by Michael R. Beschloss (1945)
• Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews by James Carroll (1945)
• D-Day Illustrated Edition: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)
• Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) by David M. Kennedy (1945)
• The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections by Tom Brokaw (1945)
• In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany by Thomas Childers (1945)
• The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963 by Laurence Leamer (1945)
• The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians by Caleb Carr (1945)
• Navajo Code Talkers by Nathan Aaseng (1945)
• The New Dealers' War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the War Within World War II by Thomas Fleming (1945)
• Slightly Out of Focus (Modern Library) by Robert Capa (1945)
• Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? by Edwin Newman (1945)
• Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman (1945)
• The Thin Red Line: A Novel by James Jones (1945)
• The Tin Drum by Günter Grass (1945)
• Truman by David McCullough (1945)
• Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees (1939-1945)
• I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 by Victor Klemperer (1939-1945)

World War II, American Home Front

• Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman

World War II, German Occupation of France

• In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany by Thomas Childers (1944)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• The Thin Red Line: A Novel by James Jones (1945-09-02)

World War III

• 1984 by George Orwell

Y2K

• Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public by Ted Koppel