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11th century

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

1480s

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo

1482

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo

14th century

• The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri
• The Inferno of Dante: Bilingual Edition by Dante
• Richard II (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)
• A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1300s)
• Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)

15th century

• Henry IV. Part two by William Shakespeare
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
• King Henry IV, Part 1 (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) (Pt. 1) by William Shakespeare

1600s

• Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman

1620s

• The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

16th century

• The complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
• Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics) by Francois Rabelais
• The Merchant of Venice (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare
• The other Boleyn girl : a novel by Philippa Gregory
• The prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
• Utopia by Sir More, Saint Thomas

17th century

• The crucible : a play in four acts by Arthur Miller
• Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Rene Descartes
• Discourse on method ; and, Meditations on first philosophy by René Descartes
• Ethics (Penguin Classics) by Benedict de Spinoza
• God's secretaries : the making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson
• Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes
• Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
• Shogun by James Clavell
• The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

1820s

• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot

1830s

• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot

1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson

18th century

• Candide by Voltaire,
• The complete poems [of] William Blake by William Blake
• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
• Tom Jones (Signet classics) by Henry Fielding
• Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos (1782)

1900

• The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 by Philipp Blom

1910s

• The strange death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield

1918 influenza pandemic

• Flu : the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it by Gina Bari Kolata

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

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

19th century

• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
• Cold mountain : a novel by Charles Frazier
• The complete poems [of] William Blake by William Blake
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• From Hell by Alan Moore
• Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
• John Keats, the complete poems by John Keats
• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot
• Les misérables by Victor Hugo
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• War and peace by graf Leo Tolstoy

1st century

• The Agricola; and The Germania by Cornelius Tacitus

1st century BCE

• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• The poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus

2008

• The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2008 by World Almanac Books

2008 Presidential Campaign

• Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08 by Project Censored

2nd century

• The emperor's handbook : a new translation of The meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

4th century BCE

• De anima = On the soul by Aristotle.,
• Aristotle: Generation of Animals (Loeb Classical Library No. 366) by Aristotle
• Aristotle: Parts of Animals. Movement of Animals. Progression of Animals (Loeb Classical Library No. 323) by Aristotle
• The Nicomachean ethics by Aristotle.,
• Physics by Aristotle.,
• Poetics by Aristotle.,
• The republic by Plato.,

5th century

• Coriolanus (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

74th Annual Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

9/11 Attacks

• The 9/11 Commission report : final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.,
• Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08 by Project Censored
• 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)
• Standard Operating Procedure by Philip Gourevitch (2004)
• Torture and truth : America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror by Mark Danner (2004)

Adams–Onís Treaty

• How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein

Afghan Civil War

• The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions) by Khaled Hosseini
• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Afghan Wars

• Chain of command : the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh (2001-)
• Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani (2001-)

Afghanistan War, 2001-

• The forever war by Dexter Filkins

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• Carry me home : Birmingham, Alabama : the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution by Diane McWhorter
• Dream makers, dream breakers : the world of Justice Thurgood Marshall by Carl T. Rowan
• Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement by James R. Ralph, Jr.
• A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
• The Reader's companion to American history by Eric Foner
• Reporting civil rights

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• Stuck rubber baby by Howard. Cruse

AIDS epidemic

• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
• Fun home : a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Alchemy in Renaissance and early modern Europe

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay

Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

• The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World by John Demos

Alien Invasion

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 by Alan Moore

Allied Occupation of Japan

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

Allied occupation of Japan

• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (1952)

American Civil War

• The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
• The mystic chords of memory : the transformation of tradition in American culture by Michael G. Kammen
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor ( 1865)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (1865)
• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1865)
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1865)
• Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
• A history of the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz (1865)
• How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein (1865)
• The killer angels : a novel by Michael Shaara (1865)
• Memoirs and selected letters : personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, selected letters 1839-1865 by Ulysses S. Grant (1865)
• Paradise Alley (P.S.) by Kevin Baker (1865)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1865)
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester (1865)
• Cold mountain : a novel by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

American Indian Movement

• Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong by James W. Loewen

American Revolution

• The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World by John Demos
• A history of the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz (1783)
• How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein (1783)
• The radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood (1783)

American War of Independence

• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley

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 Saxon period

• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1066)

Anglo-Spanish War

• The Elizabethan world by Lacey Baldwin Smith (1604)
• The warrior queens by Antonia Fraser (1604)

Anti-apartheid movement

• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

Anti-Rent War

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

Apartheid

• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

Arab Revolt

• Lawrence of Arabia : the authorized biography of T.E. Lawrence by Jeremy Wilson (1918)
• A peace to end all peace : the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Middle East by David Fromkin (1918)

Armageddon

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

Armenian Genocide

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

Art of the Fugue published

• Harvard concise dictionary of music by Don Michael Randel

Assassination of Abdul Haq

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Assassination vacation by Sarah Vowell
• Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics) by Walt Whitman (1865-04-14)

Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Lost girls by Alan Moore

Assassination of James A. Garfield

• Assassination vacation by Sarah Vowell
• The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World by John Demos

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• The business of fancydancing : stories and poems by Sherman Alexie
• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by John Irving (1963-11-22)

Assassination of Julius Caesar

• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Assassination of Mohammad Najibullah

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Assassination of William McKinley

• Assassination vacation by Sarah Vowell
• The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World by John Demos

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)
• Barefoot Gen : the day after by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)
• Cat's Cradle (Essential Penguin) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1945)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1945)
• Truman by David G. McCullough (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)

Attica Prison Riot

• A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1971)

Augustine's conversion

• St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine

Autumn Feast

• The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6) by C. S. Lewis

Bacon's Rebellion

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

Baker v. Carr

• The Oxford companion to the Supreme Court of the United States by Kermit Hall (1962)

Bangladesh War for Independence

• A GOLDEN AGE by TAHMIMA ANAM

baseball

• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo

Bataan Death March

• Ghost soldiers : the epic account of World War II's greatest rescue mission by Hampton Sides
• Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman (1942)

Battle of 1st Beneventum

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 1st Capua

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 1st Casilinum

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 1st Herdonia

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 1st Nola

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 1st Petelia

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 1st Tarentum

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 2nd Beneventum

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 2nd Capua

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 2nd Casilinum

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 2nd Herdonia

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 2nd Nola

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 2nd Petelia

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 2nd Tarentum

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of 3rd Nola

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Ager Falernus

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Agincourt

• Face of Battle by John Keegan (1415-10-25)
• Henry V by C. T. Allmand (1415-10-25)

Battle of Arpi

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Barnet

• The Wars of the Roses: A Concise History by Charles Derek Ross (1471-04-14)

Battle of Borodino

• War and peace by graf Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Bosworth Field

• Richard the Third by Paul Murray Kendall (1485-08-22)
• The Wars of the Roses: A Concise History by Charles Derek Ross (1485-08-22)

Battle of Britain

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Campi Veteres

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Cannae

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Canusium

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Caporetto

• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway

Battle of Caulonia

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Clontarf

• Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (1014-04-23)

Battle of Crotona

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Geronium

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Gettysburg

• The killer angels : a novel by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)

Battle of Grumentum

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Hamae

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Hattin

• The Oxford illustrated history of the Crusades by Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith

Battle of Hogwarts

• Harry Potter and the deathly hallows by J. K. Rowling

Battle of Hoth

• Star Wars, Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back by Donald F. Glut

Battle of Ilipa

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Isandlwana

• Like Lions they Fought: The Zulu War and the Last Black Empire in South Africa by Robert B. Edgerton (1879)
• The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 (Touchstone Books) by Donald R. Morris (1879)

Battle of Lake Trasimene

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Lucania

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Mactan

• Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) by Laurence Bergreen (1521-4-27)

Battle of Manduria

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Marathon

• The landmark Herodotus : the histories by Herodotus.,

Battle of Metaurus

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Mogadishu

• Black Hawk down : a story of modern war by Mark Bowden (1993)

Battle of Mons Graupius

• The Agricola; and The Germania by Cornelius Tacitus

Battle of Numistro

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Okinawa

• Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester (1945)

Battle of Pylos

• The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
• The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan (425 BC)

Battle of Qala-i-Jangi

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Battle of Rorke's Drift

• Like Lions they Fought: The Zulu War and the Last Black Empire in South Africa by Robert B. Edgerton (1879)
• The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 (Touchstone Books) by Donald R. Morris (1879)

Battle of Sapriportis

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Silarus

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Silva Litana

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Stalingrad

• Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor (1943)

Battle of Tewkesbury

• The Wars of the Roses: A Concise History by Charles Derek Ross (1471-05-04)

Battle of the Alamo

• Lone star nation : how a ragged army of volunteers won the battle for Texas independence, and changed America by H. W. Brands (1836-03-06)

Battle of the Atlantic

• Enigma U-boats : breaking the code : the true story by Jak P. Mallmann Showell (1945)

Battle of the Bismark Sea

• Game Theory and Politics by Steven J. Brams

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)
• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Battle of the Somme

• The Great War and modern memory by Paul Fussell
• Face of Battle by John Keegan (1916)
• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway (1916)

Battle of the Trebia

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Thermopylae

• The landmark Herodotus : the histories by Herodotus.,

Battle of Ticinus

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Tora Bora

• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

Battle of Towton

• The Wars of the Roses: A Concise History by Charles Derek Ross (1461-03-29)

Battle of Umbrian Lake

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Venusia

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Waterberg

• Let us die fighting : the struggle of the Herero and Nama against German imperialism (1884-1915) by Horst Drechsler (1904)

Battle of Waterloo

• Les misérables by Victor Hugo (1815)
• Face of Battle by John Keegan (1815-06-18)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Battle of Zama

• The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

Beat Generation

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Big Bang

• Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Black Death

• The Elizabethan world by Lacey Baldwin Smith
• The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World by John Demos
• World without end by Ken Follett
• A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1340s)

The Blitz

• Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Bloomsday

• Ulysses (Everyman's Library, 100) by James Joyce

Blutmai

• Berlin : a work of fiction by Jason Lutes

Boer War

• Brewer's Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics by William Donaldson

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut
• A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (1945-02)

Bombing of Libya

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

Bosnian War

• Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco
• The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo by Joe Sacco (1992-1995)
• Kosovo : war and revenge by Tim Judah (1992-1995)
• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (1992-1995)

Boston Police Strike

• The Given Day: A Novel by Dennis Lehane

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

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

British Imperial Expansion

• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley

British Occupation of India

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

British Raj

• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1947)

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)

Bronze Age

• Age of Bronze Volume 1: A Thousand Ships by Eric Shanower
• Age Of Bronze Volume 2: Sacrifice by Eric Shanower
• Age Of Bronze Volume 3: Betrayal (v. 3) by Eric Shanower

Brown v. Board of Education

• The Oxford companion to the Supreme Court of the United States by Kermit Hall

Building of the Hoover Dam

• Remaking the world : adventures in engineering by Henry Petroski

Building of the Panama Canal

• Remaking the world : adventures in engineering by Henry Petroski

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Cambodian genocide

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
• River of time by Jon Swain

Chicago World's Fair

• The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson (1893)

Children's Crusade

• An underground education : the unauthorized and outrageous supplement to everything you thought you knew about art, sex, business, crime, science, medicine, and other fields of human knowledge by Richard Zacks (1212)

Chilean Coup

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

Cholera Epidemic

• The secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1900)

Christian conversion of Iceland

• Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous (999)

Christmas

• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
• Little House in the Big Woods (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by John Irving

Christmas Day

• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

Circumnatigation of the World

• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
• Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement by John Lewis

Civil war in Afghanistan

• Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
• Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid (1992–96)

Classical Antiquity

• Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
• The Iliad of Homer by Homer
• Metamorphoses by Ovid,
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer

Clutter family murder

• In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)

COINTELPRO

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon

Cold War

• Charlie Wilson's war : the extraordinary story of the largest covert operation in history by George Crile
• Naming Names (A Platform Book) by Victor S. Navasky
• A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
• Prisoner's dilemma by William Poundstone
• Stalin's children : three generations of love and betrayal by Owen Matthews
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo
• Watchmen by Alan Moore

Cold War

• Deterring democracy by Noam Chomsky
• Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani

Columbine School Shootings

• Columbine by Dave Cullen

Compromise of 1850

• How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein

Contra War

• Deterring democracy by Noam Chomsky (1990)

Coronation of King Arthur

• The hollow hills by Mary Stewart

Coup of Juan Velasco Alvarado

• The bad girl by Mario Vargas Llosa (1968)

Creation

• Paradise lost by John Milton

Creation of Narnia

• The magician's nephew 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

The Crusades

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
• Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics) by Ludovico Ariosto

Crusades

• Europe : a history by Norman Davies
• The Religion: A Novel by Tim Willocks

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo (1962)

D-Day

• D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-06-06)

Death and Resurrection of Aslan

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

Death of Christopher McCandless

• Into the wild by Jon Krakauer (1992)

Death of Joseph Stalin

• The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World by John Demos

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life by George Eliot

Death of Morpheus

• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Death of the White Witch

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

Declaration of Helsinki

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Detroit Riot

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

Disaster: Flood

• Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America by John M. Barry

Disaster: Hurricane

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

Disaster: Infectious Disease

• The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague 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 by Simon Winchester

Discovery of Uranus

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

Dorr Rebellion

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

Dred Scott Decision

• The Oxford companion to the Supreme Court of the United States by Kermit Hall (1857)

Dreyfus Affair

• Dreyfus: A Family Affair : From the French Revolution to the Holocaust by Michael Burns
• Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set by Marcel Proust

Durban Declaration

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Dust Bowl

• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001) by Timothy Egan

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)

Easter

• The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by Dubose Heyward

Easter Mutiny

• Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) by Laurence Bergreen (1520)

Easter Rising

• Preacher : proud Americans by Garth Ennis (1916)

Ebola Reston discovery

• The hot zone by Richard Preston (1989)

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

El Mozote Massacre

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

Elizabethan Era

• The complete works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• The Elizabethan world by Lacey Baldwin Smith
• Quality of Mercy by Faye Kellerman

End of the Universe

• The restaurant at the end of the universe by Douglas Adams

England beat Australia at Cricket

• Liar by Stephen Fry (1981)

English Civil War

• Cavaliers & roundheads : the English Civil War, 1642-1649 by Christopher Hibbert (1649)

English Renaissance

• The complete works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) by William Shakespeare

Enlightenment

• Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Rene Descartes
• Discourse on method ; and, Meditations on first philosophy by René Descartes
• Ethics (Penguin Classics) by Benedict de Spinoza
• A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• Tom Jones (Signet classics) by Henry Fielding

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

• Ghosts of Vesuvius : a new look at the last days of Pompeii, how towers fall, and other strange connections by Charles R. Pellegrino (79 AD)

Espionage Act

• The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World by John Demos

Establishment of Israel

• The chosen by Chaim Potok
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon (1948)

Evacuation of British Children in WW2

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

Existentialism

• A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Expulsion of the Acadians

• A great and noble scheme : the tragic story of the expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland by John Mack Faragher (1755-1756)

Fall of Communism

• McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny

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: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)

Fall of Rome

• Concerning the city of God against the pagans by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.

Feast of the Pheasant

• The Elizabethan world by Lacey Baldwin Smith (1454)

Federalist Era

• The age of federalism by Stanley M. Elkins (1801)

The Female Captive by Elizabeth Marsh

• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley

Feminist Movement

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

Festival of Fools

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo

First Crusade

• Holy War by Karen Armstrong (1099)
• The Oxford illustrated history of the Crusades by Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith (1099)

First Hot Air Balloon Flights

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

First Intifada

• Palestine by Joe Sacco