Book Events for pqfuller

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

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

14th century

• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)

16th century

• Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (1500s)

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

• Modern Classics Orlando a Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf (1600s)

1800 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Illinois) by Erik Larson

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

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

2002 Coca-Cola "solitary hitchhiker" commercial

• Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto by Anneli Rufus

2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash

• Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto by Anneli Rufus

20th century

• The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics) by L. P. Hartley (1900)

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins

75th Annual Hunger Games

• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

Acid Precipitation Act

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes (1980)

Afghan Civil War

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan War

• Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War by Dakota Meyer

Age of Vivisection

• Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker (1600s)

Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes (AAOE)

Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expediction

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes (AASE)

American Civil War

• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1865)
• The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride (1865)
• Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond by Robert Brent Toplin (1865)
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)

American Revolution

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1783)

American Revolution 1775-1783

• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

The Anarchy

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

Arab Revolt

• Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (The Authorized Doubleday/Doran Edition) by T. E. Lawrence (1918)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Atkins v. Virginia

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

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun, #1) (1945)
• Truman by David McCullough (1945)

Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan

• Fourth of July Creek: A Novel by Smith Henderson (1981-03-30)

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Bangladesh War of Independence

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)

Bataan Death March

• Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman (1942)

Battle of Caporetto

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Somme

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Belle Époque

• A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud (1871-1914)

Big Bang

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

the Big Ride

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Bleeding Kansas

• The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride (1859)

The Blitz

• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1941)

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut

Boxer Rebellion

• Pearl of China: A Novel by Anchee Min

the break up of the Moon

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

British Antarctic Survey

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

British Association for the Advancement of Science - founding and early years

• Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

Brown v. Board of Education

• Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol (1954)

Burlington, Vermont 2009 mayoral election

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

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1804)

California Gold Rush

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

Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Illinois) by Erik Larson (1893)

Chinese Civil War

• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Christmas

• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving

cigarette advertising ban

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Clean Air Act

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

climate change

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Climate Impact Assessment Program

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Clutter family murder

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

Cold War

• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)

Columbia Disaster

• Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds by Greg Milner

Columbine High School massacre

• Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto by Anneli Rufus

Constitutional Convention

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)

Continental Congress

• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

The Council of Elrond

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

Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Crimean War

• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Cultural Revolution

• Pearl of China: A Novel by Anchee Min

DDT ban

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot

Death of Willie Lincoln

• Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders (1862)

Dedication of the Glen Canyon Dam

• The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Edward Abbey (1966)

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

Discovery of Radium

• Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss

Discovery of Uranus

• Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (1781)

Dr. Pepper "I'm a Pepper" ad campaign

• Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto by Anneli Rufus

Dreyfus Affair

• In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Modern Library Classics) by Marcel Proust

Dust Bowl Era

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Earth Summit

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

elections

• Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (John F. Kennedy)

Emancipation Proclamation

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

emissions trading

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Eruption of Laki, Iceland

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, destruction of Pompeii

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones

Extinction of the dinosaurs

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Fairness Doctrine

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Fin de siècle

• The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics) by L. P. Hartley

Financial Crisis of 2008

• All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean

First Congo War

• Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns (1996-1997)

First Gulf War

• Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds by Greg Milner

First Hot Air Balloon Flights

• Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

Florida 2000 presidential election

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

Frankenstein - writing of

• Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

French Resistance

• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

French Revolution

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1799)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)

Gettysburg Address

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

Gilded Age

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

Good Friday Agreement

• TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann

Great Depression

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1930s)

Great Fire of Smyrna

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)

Great Flood, California

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones (1861-62)

Great Frost

• Modern Classics Orlando a Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf (1709)

Great Kantō Earthquake

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones

Great Leap Forward

• Pearl of China: A Novel by Anchee Min

The Great Migration

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Greco-Turkish War

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)

Gulf War

• The Crow Road by Iain Banks (1990-1991)

Hamilton–Reynolds affair

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1797)

the Hard Rain

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Harlem Renaissance

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Haun's Mill Massacre

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

Henley Royal Regatta

• The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich (2004)

Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Eric Larson (1930-01-30)

Holocaust

• My Father Bleeds History (Maus) by Art Spiegelman
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)

Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Hurricane Donna

• Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1960)

Hurricane Katrina

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones (2005)

Hurricane San Felipe Segundo

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

Inadvertent Modification of the Stratosphere

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Indira Ghandi's assassination

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Indoor Residual Spraying

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Influenza pandemic

• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes (IPCC)

International Geophysical Year

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

International Symposium on Acid Precipitation and the Forest Ecosystem

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Invention of Miner's Safety Lamp

• Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (1816)

Iran-Contra Affair

• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving (1990)

Iran-Iraq War

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1988)

Iranian Revolution

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1979)

Iraq War

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Italian Renaissance

• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Occupation

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride (18)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1854)

Killer Blizzard

• Downtown Owl: A Novel by Chuck Klosterman (1984-2-4)

the killing of Danny Hansford

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt (1981)

Korean War

• Truman by David McCullough (1953)

Kumbh Mela

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Kyoto Protocol

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

L'Aquila, Italy earthquake

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones (2009)

Landing of the Pilgrims in the New World

• Bradford's History "of Plimoth Plantation." by William Bradford (1620)

Late Devonian extinction

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

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

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

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

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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

Lisbon earthquake

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones

Manhattan Project

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

market failures

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Marshall Plan

• Truman by David McCullough (1951)

Massachusetts et a. v. the EPA

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

masturbation

• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

Mesopotamian Campaign

• Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (The Authorized Doubleday/Doran Edition) by T. E. Lawrence (1918-11-14)

Mint 400 Race

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Mississippi River flood

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones

Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Mountain Meadows Massacre

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

Mueller investigation

• Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

Murder of Eric Morse

• Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago by LeAlan Jones (1994-10-13)

National Climate Act

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes (1978)

National Environmental Policy Act

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes (1970)

National Ozone Experiment

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

New Deal

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

New Orleans school desegregation crisis

• Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck

Newark riots

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1967)

Nierenberg Acid Rain Peer Review Panel

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Night of the Long Knives

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Eric Larson (1934-07-02)

Nineteen Year Winter

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( 1154)

Northern Ireland peace process

• TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann

nuclear freeze movement

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

nuclear winter theory

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Okeechobee hurricane

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

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Ordovician–Silurian extinction event

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

ozone depletion

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Ozone Trends Panel

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Panel on Atmospheric Chemistry

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Panic of 1792

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Peninsula Campaign

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1862)

Permian Mass Extinction

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Petit's walk on a wire strung between the World Trade Center Towers, Aug 7, 1974.

• Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann

Philippine-American War

• The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer

Pottawatomie Massacre

• The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride (26)

Prague Spring

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Presidency of Abraham Lincoln

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

President Clinton's Impeachment

• Human Stain by Philip Roth

Prohibition in the United States

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)

Quarter Quell

• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

Quasi-War

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1800)

Raid on Short Creek, Arizona, July 26, 1953

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

Reconstruction Era of the United States

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

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens

Renaissance

• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

Republican National Convention

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1860)

RICO Act

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Russia Invasion of Afghanistan

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Rwandan Genocide

• Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns

Salem witch trials

• Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K. Roach

San Fermin & Running of the Bulls

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Science and Environmental Policy Project

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes (SEPP)

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

Second Congo War

• Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns (1998-2003)

Second Continental Congress

• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

September 11 Attacks

• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (2001-09-11)

Siege of Yorktown

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1781)

Slavery Abolition Act

• Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel by Jean Rhys (1833)

Smallpox Epidemic 1764

• Saving the World (Shannon Ravenel Books (Paperback)) by Julia Alvarez

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Spanish Civil War

• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1939)

Spanish-American War

• The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer
• Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt (1898)

Stanford prison experiment

• So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Strategic Defense Initiative

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes (SDI)

Strategic Objectives Panel

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

Suicide

• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Hannah Baker's)

Sumatra earthquake and tsunami

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones (2004)

Superflu epidemic

• The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King

Tangshan earthquake, China

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones (1976)

Tohoku, Japan earthquake and tsunami

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones (2011)

TransAtlantic flight of Alcock & Brown

• TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann (1919)

Triassic–Jurassic extinction event

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Troisième République

• A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud (1870-1940)

Trojan War

• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer

The Troubles

• Troubles (Empire Trilogy) by J. G. Farrell

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One

• 2001: a Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey Series) by Arthur C. Clarke

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly Two

• 2001: a Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey Series) by Arthur C. Clarke

U.S. Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania

• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes

United States presidential election

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1860, 1864)
• Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (1960)

USS Cole Bombing in Yemen

• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

Victorian Era

• A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud (1873)

Vietnam War

• Human Stain by Philip Roth
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1975)
• Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving (1975)

Voyage of the HMS Endeavor

• Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

Wall Street Crash

• The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (1929)

War of the Usurper

• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R. R. Martin

Whisky Rebellion

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1794)

Winter

• Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics) by Edith Wharton

Wonderful Parliament

• Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury by Paul Strohm

World War I

• Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss
• Regeneration Tie In by Pat Barker
• The Well of Loneliness (Wordsworth Classics) by Radclyffe Hall
• All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
• East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck (1918)
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1918)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1918)
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1918)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1918)
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (The Authorized Doubleday/Doran Edition) by T. E. Lawrence (1918)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)
• Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles (1914-1918)

World War II

• The Book of Lost Things: A Novel by John Connolly
• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
• 1984 by Erich Fromm (1945)
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (1945)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (1945)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1945)
• Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun, #1) (1945)
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman (1945)
• House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski (1945)
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (1945)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (1945)
• My Father Bleeds History (Maus) by Art Spiegelman (1945)
• No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman (1945)
• Truman by David McCullough (1945)
• Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles (1939-1945)
• The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer (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, German Occupation of France

• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (1944)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman (1945-09-02)

World War III

• 1984 by Erich Fromm
• The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury

World's Columbian Exposition

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Illinois) by Erik Larson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Xenocide of the Formics

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

Zenith Radio Corporation telepath broadcasts

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg (1937)