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13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

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

14th century

• The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky (FSG Audio) by Dante Alighieri
• The Purgatorio (Signet Classics) by Dante Alighieri
• The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)
• Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)

15th century

• Richard III (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare

1770s

• 1776 by David McCullough

1776

• 1776 by David McCullough

1788-89 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1792 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1796 presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

17th century

• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick

1800 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

1896

• The Alienist by Caleb Carr

18th century

• 1776 by David McCullough
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling

1918 Flu Pandemic

• The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David Jaher

1950s

• Lovecraft Country: A Novel by Matt Ruff

1970s

• Carrie by Stephen King

1980s

• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

1984

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

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

19th century

• I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux
• The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy by Michael F. Patton
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
• Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
• The Red Badge of Courage (Aladdin Classics) by Stephen Crane
• The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead

20th century

• The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy by Michael F. Patton
• The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling

4th century BCE

• The Republic of Plato by Plato

74th Annual Hunger Games

• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Twin Towers and Pentagon

• Doctor Sleep: A Novel by Stephen King

Abolitionist Movement

• Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton
• Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Kathryn Kish Sklar
• All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer (U.S. history)

Abu Ghraib Prison scandal

• Standard Operating Procedure by Philip Gourevitch (2004)

Afghan Wars

• The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (2001-)

Afghanistan War, 2001-

• The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
• Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South by Anne Moody
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham
• Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr by Michael Eric Dyson

Alexander the Great's Conquest

• Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

• American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns; The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It by Richard N. Rosenfeld

Allied Invasion of Sicily

• A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

Allied Occupation of Japan

• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (1952)

American Civil War

• Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts
• Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Philip Dray
• Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose
• Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
• Eye Of The Storm: A Civil War Odyssey by Robert Sneden
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• Grant by Ron Chernow
• Grant Moves South by Bruce Catton
• How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
• Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
• Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson
• The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
• 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick (1865)
• Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution by James M. McPherson (1865)
• America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation by David Goldfield (1865)
• American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (R) by Bruce Catton (1865)
• The American Heritage Short History of the Civil War by bruce catton (1865)
• Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War by Charles B. Dew (1865)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (1865)
• Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle (The American South Series) by Stephen Cushman (1865)
• Blueprint for Modern America: Nonmilitary Legislation of the First Civil War Congress by Leonard P Curry (1865)
• Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War (Caravan Book) by Gary W. Gallagher (1865)
• Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears (1865)
• The Civil War (American Heritage Books) by Bruce Catton (1865)
• The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865 (Quality Paperbacks Series) by George B. McClellan (1865)
• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1865)
• Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (Pivotal Moments in American History) by James M. McPherson (1865)
• Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War by David J. Eicher (1865)
• The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 by Fred Anderson (1865)
• Don't Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned (Do by Kenneth C. Davis (1865)
• Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson (1865)
• Enemy Women: A Novel (P.S.) by Paulette Jiles (1865)
• For Cause And Comrades: Why Men Fought In The Civil War by James McPherson (1865)
• The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury (1865)
• George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon by Stephen W. Sears (1865)
• Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara (1865)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
• Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood (1865)
• Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton (1865)
• Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War (Echoes of Glory) by Authors of Time Life Books (1865)
• In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 by Edward L. Ayers (1865)
• John Ransom's Andersonville Diary by Bruce Catton (1865)
• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears (1865)
• The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara (1865)
• Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen (1865)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1865)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (1865)
• Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era by David Herbert Donald (1865)
• Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk (1865)
• The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands (1865)
• Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern by Drew Gilpin Faust (1865)
• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1865)
• A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan (1865)
• Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight (1865)
• Reflections on the Civil War by Bruce Catton (1865)
• Sherman's March: The First Full-Length Narrative of General William T. Sherman's Devastating March through Georgia and t by Burke Davis (1865)
• The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy by Sally Jenkins (1865)
• A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy Vol. 3 by Bruce Catton (1865)
• Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History Of Mcclellan's Peninsula Campaign by Richard Wheeler (1865)
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)
• They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War by De Anne Blanton (1865)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (1865)
• Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 by Walter A. Mcdougall (1865)
• To The Gates Of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen Sears (1865)
• Touched With Fire: Five Presidents and the Civil War Battles That Made Them by James M. Perry (1865)
• We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald (1865)
• What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History by Edward L. Ayers (1865)
• Why the North Won the Civil War by David Herbert Donald (1865)
• With My Face to the Enemy by Various (1865)
• Witness to the Civil War: First-Hand Accounts from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper by Jim Lewin (1865)
• Women in the Civil War by Mary Elizabeth Massey (1865)
• Slaves in the Family (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Edward Ball (1861 ∙ 1865)
• The Red Badge of Courage (Aladdin Classics) by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)
• War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by James M. McPherson (1861-1865)

American Civil War 1861-1865

• Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis by James L. Swanson

American Declaration of Independence

• 1776 by David McCullough (1776)

American Indian Movement

• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

American Revolution

• American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
• Burr: A Novel by Gore Vidal
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• The House: The History of the House of Representatives by Robert V. Remini
• Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
• Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle S. Allen
• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham
• Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence by Joseph J. Ellis
• Slaves in the Family (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Edward Ball
• Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History (The Public Square) by Jill Lepore
• 1776 by David McCullough ( 1783)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1783)
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (1783)
• The American Heritage Book of the Revolution by Bruce Lancaster (1783)
• The American Revolution: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Gordon S. Wood (1783)
• The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon Wood (1783)
• Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick (1783)
• By Merrill Jensen - New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederati (1966-03-16) [Paperback] by Merrill Jensen (1783)
• The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor (1783)
• The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 by Fred Anderson (1783)
• The First Salute by Barbara W. Tuchman (1783)
• Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture) by Woody Holton (1783)
• Forge (Seeds of America) by Laurie Halse Anderson (1783)
• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis (1783)
• The History of the American Revolution, Two Volume Set by David Ramsay (1783)
• History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution by Mercy Otis Warren (1783)
• The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (1783)
• Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Vintage) by Maya Jasanoff (1783)
• Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series) by Richard D. Brown (1783)
• The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence by T. H. Breen (1783)
• Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 by Elizabeth Anne Fenn (1783)
• The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood (1783)
• Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood (1783)
• Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence by Carol Berkin (1783)
• The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America by Gary B. Nash (1783)
• Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose (1783)
• Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (1775 ∙ 1783)
• John Adams by David McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)
• American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns; The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It by Richard N. Rosenfeld (1775-1783)
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavi by M.T. Anderson (1775-1783)

The Anarchy

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

Anatomy Act

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (1836)

Anglo-Irish Treaty

• Eamon de Valera: The man who was Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan

Antebellum South

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

Anti-Rent War

• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1839)

Anti-Vietnam War movement

• They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 by David Maraniss

Apocalypse

• The City of Ember (The First Book of Ember) by Jeanne DuPrau

Apollo 11

• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham

Arab Revolt

• 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

• A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2010-2012)

Armageddon

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch [GOOD OMENS] [Mass Market Paperback]

Armenian Genocide

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.) by Samantha Power
• A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akcam

Armistice Day

• 11th Month 11th Day 11th Hour - Armistice Day 1918 World War 1 and Its Violent Climax by Joseph E. Persico

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
• Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution by James L. Swanson
• Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.) by James L. Swanson
• We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1865-04)

Assassination of James A. Garfield

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (1881)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea

Assassination of Malcolm X

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley by Attallah Shabazz

Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History by Hampton Sides ([1968])

Assassination of William McKinley

• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

assassinations

• A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2011)

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima

• The Atomic City Girls: A Novel by Janet Beard

Atomic bombing of Nagasaki

• The Atomic City Girls: A Novel by Janet Beard

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1945)
• Truman by David McCullough (1945)

The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II

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

Attica Prison Riot

• Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1971)

B'Wa Kell Rebellion

• ARCTIC INCIDENT (ARTEMIS FOWL, NO 2) by EOIN COLFER

Bacon's Rebellion

• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1676)

Barack Obama's Presidency

• Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco

Barbary Wars

• Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade

baseball

• The Great American Novel by Philip Roth

Bastille Day

• Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott

Bataan Death March

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver

Battle at Burning plains

• Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) by Christopher Paolini

Battle of Antietam

• Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (Pivotal Moments in American History) by James M. McPherson (1862)
• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears (1862)

Battle of Anzio

• The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson
• The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw (1944-06-05)

Battle of Bosworth Field

• Richard III (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare (1485-08-22)

Battle of Britain

• Atonement by Ian Mcewan (1940)

Battle of Bunker Hill

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

Battle of Caporetto

• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Cerro Gordo

• Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of Chancellorsville

• Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
• Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears (1863)

Battle of Chapultepec

• Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of Churubusco

• Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of Contreras

• Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of Corinth, Mississippi

• The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy by Sally Jenkins (1862)

Battle of El Alamein

• An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

Battle of Fair Oaks

• To The Gates Of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen Sears

Battle of Fallujah

• No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah by Bing West (2004)
• We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick K. O'Donnell (2004)

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Battle of Fort Donelson

• War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by James M. McPherson

Battle of Fort Fisher

• War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by James M. McPherson

Battle of Fort Henry

• War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by James M. McPherson

Battle of Fredericksburg

• Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

Battle of Gaines' Mill

• To The Gates Of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen Sears

Battle of Glendale

• To The Gates Of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen Sears

Battle of Hampton Roads

• To The Gates Of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen Sears

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Hue

• Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden (1968)

Battle of Iwo Jima

• Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley (1945)

Battle of Kasserine Pass

• An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Battle of Long Island

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

Battle of Malvern Hill

• To The Gates Of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen Sears

Battle of Manhattan

• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5) by Rick Riordan

Battle of Mechanicsville

• To The Gates Of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen Sears

Battle of Mexico City

• Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of Mobile Bay

• War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by James M. McPherson

Battle of Mogadishu

• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden (1993)

Battle of Molino del Rey

• Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Battle of New Orleans

• Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars by Robert V. Remini (1815-01-08)
• The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory by Robert V. Remini (1815-01-08)

Battle of Ong Thanh

• They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 by David Maraniss (1967)

Battle of Reipertswiller

• The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw (1944)

Battle of Seven Pines

• To The Gates Of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen Sears

Battle of Shiloh

• Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood (1862-04-07)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (1862-04-07)

Battle of South Mountain

• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears

Battle of Tannenberg

• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)

Battle of the Alamo

• Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence by H. W. Brands (1836-03-06)

Battle of the Bogside

• War as a Way of Life: A Belfast Diary by John Conroy

Battle of the Bulge

• Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose (1945)
• Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany 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)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts by David Baggett
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Hornburg

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

Battle of the Labyrinth

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan

Battle of the Little Bighorn

• The Good, the Bad, and the Mad: (Some Weird People in American History) by E. Randall Floyd (1876)
• Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose ( 1876-06-26)
• Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians by James Welch (1876-06-26)

Battle of the Marne

• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)

Battle of the Somme

• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of the Washita (1868); massacre of Black Kettle's village

• Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose

Battle of the Wilderness

• A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy Vol. 3 by Bruce Catton
• Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle (The American South Series) by Stephen Cushman (1864-05)

Battle of Trenton

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

Battle of Vicksburg

• War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by James M. McPherson

Battle of Williamsburg

• To The Gates Of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen Sears

Battle of Yorktown

• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Battles of Lexington and Concord

• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (1775-04-19)

Beat Generation

• On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Jack Kerouac
• The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters

beat movement

• Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems by Gary Snyder

Beheading game

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

The Bible Riots

• A Nation Rising: Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History by Kenneth C. Davis (1844)

Big Bang

• The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

Bill of Rights

• The House: The History of the House of Representatives by Robert V. Remini

Black Death

• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham
• In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman Cantor (1350)

Black Hawk War

• We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald

Black Lives Matter

• Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett

Black Power Movement

• Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

The Blitz

• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
• All Clear by Connie Willis (1941)
• Atonement by Ian Mcewan (1941)
• Blackout by Connie Willis (1941)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Bombing of Dresden

• Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Movie Tie-In): A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1945-02)

Bombing of Libya

• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1986)

Bosnian War

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.) by Samantha Power (1992-1995)

Boston Police Strike

• The Given Day: A Novel by Dennis Lehane

Boston Tea Party

• The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History (The Public Square) by Jill Lepore
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavi by M.T. Anderson (1773-12-16)

Bretton Woods Conference

• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (1944)

Brown v. Board of Education

• Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made by Jim Newton (1954)
• Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger (1954)

Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

• The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

Building of the Panama Canal

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

Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

• Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen Ambrose

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Burr: A Novel by Gore Vidal
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1804)
• Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America by Thomas Fleming (1804-07-11)
• Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg (1804-07-11)

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98

• Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election by Jeffrey Toobin (2000)

Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, 531 U.S. 70

• Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election by Jeffrey Toobin (2000)

Byzantine Empire

• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham

Cambodian genocide

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.) by Samantha Power

Capture of Perote

• Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara (1847)

Centennial Exhibition of 1876

• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Charleston (S.C.) Slave Insurrection, 1822

• The Invention of Wings: A Novel by Sue Monk Kidd

Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Community

• The Builders of the Bay Colony by Samuel Eliot Morison

Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (1893)

Chilean Coup

• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1973)

Chinese-Japanese War

• The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley

Christmas

• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

Christmas Day

• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Civil Rights Movement

• Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South by Anne Moody

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen
• A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis
• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years) by Taylor Branch
• Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg

Civil War

• American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
• The House: The History of the House of Representatives by Robert V. Remini

Classical Antiquity

• The Odyssey by Homer

climate crisis

• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681

• A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin (1997)

Clutter family murder

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

COINTELPRO

• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon

Cold War

• Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile
• Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) by Mary L. Dudziak
• The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
• Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
• The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders
• Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emil by Jennifer Michael Hecht
• The Fifties by David Halberstam
• Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez
• Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May
• The House: The History of the House of Representatives by Robert V. Remini
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea
• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
• Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
• Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl
• The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (50th Anniversary Edition) by William Appleman Williams
• Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald
• We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (A Council on Foreign Relations book) by John Lewis Gaddis
• Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

Colfax Massacre

• Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Philip Dray

Colonizing the New World

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

Columbine School Shootings

• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• The Hour I First Believed: A Novel (P.S.) by Wally Lamb

Compromise of 1790

• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Compromise of 1850

• Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New Introductory Essay by Eric Foner
• The Impending Crisis 1848-1861 by David M. Potter
• The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War by Michael F. Holt
• The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery by Don E. Fehrenbacher (1850)

Constitutional Convention

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)
• An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States by Charles Austin Beard (1787)
• The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery by Don E. Fehrenbacher (1787)
• The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis (Philadelphia, 1787)

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David McCullough

Continental Congress' Treaty of 1778 with France

• American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns; The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It by Richard N. Rosenfeld

Conversion of Constantine

• The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman

Council of Chalcedon

• The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman

Council of Constantinople

• The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman

The Council of Elrond

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

Council of Nicaea

• The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman

COVID-19 pandemic

• Rage by Bob Woodward

Creation of Narnia

• The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1) by C. S. Lewis

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

Credit crunch

• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Creek War

• Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars by Robert V. Remini (1814)

Crimean War

• Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by James Joyce

Crusades

• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham

Culper Spy Ring

• Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose

Cultural Revolution

• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham

D-Day

• Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose (1944-06-06)
• Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-06-06)

Dalai Lama at the Tibet Center/Gere Foundation for two week teaching in NYC

• An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life by Dalai Lama (1991-08)

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

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

Death of Alexander the Great

• Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

Death of the White Witch

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

Declaration of Independence

• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham

Dedication of National Cemetery at Gettysburg

• The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows by Gabor Boritt (1863-11)

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

• A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2010-04-20)

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams

Detroit Race Riots of 1943

• Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943 (Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University) by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

Disaster: Dam Break

• Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

Disaster: Flood

• Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry

Disaster: Hurricane

• Isaac's Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900 by Erik Larson
• Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean by Les Standiford

Disaster: Infectious Disease

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

Disaster: Storm at Sea

• The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger

Disaster: Volcano Eruption

• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.) by Simon Winchester

Discovery of the Titanic

• Raise the Titanic! (Dirk Pitt Adventure) by Clive Cussler (fictional)

Dorr Rebellion

• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1842)

Dragon Day

• Fool on the Hill: A Novel by Matt Ruff

Dred Scott Decision

• Seven Events That Made America America: And Proved That the Founding Fathers Were Right All Along by Larry Schweikart (1857)
• Slaves in the Family (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Edward Ball (1857)

Dress to Get Screwed Party

• The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

driving the golden spike

• Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads by Dee Brown

Dunkirk Evacuation

• Blackout by Connie Willis (1940-06-04)

Dust Bowl

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

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck

Early Mid Ages 4 - 11 c., High Mid Ages 12- early 14 c, Late Mid Ages late 14 c

• Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

Easter

• The Day Christ Died by Jim Bishop
• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

Easter Rising

• Eamon de Valera: The man who was Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan (1916)

Edict of Milan

• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham

Edict of Nantes

• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham

El Mozote Massacre

• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1981)

Election of 1800

• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Election of 1920

• Warren G. Harding (The American Presidents Series) by John W. Dean

Elite Conscription Act

• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1996) (fictional event)

Emancipation Proclamation

• We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1863-01-01)
• Slaves in the Family (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Edward Ball (Jan. 1, 1863)

End of the Universe

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

End of the World Party

• The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

English Civil War

• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham

English Renaissance

• Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) by William Shakespeare

Enlightenment

• The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
• A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham

Entebbe airport rescue

• Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History by Saul David

Establishment of Israel

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

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

Execution of Joe Hill

• The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon by William M. Adler (1915-11-19)

Existentialism

• At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell
• The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
• A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham

Exoduster Movement

• Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Philip Dray

Expulsion of African-Americans

• Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips

Fall of Constantinople

• 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley (1453)

Fall of France

• Atonement by Ian Mcewan (1940-06-22)