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1893 Chicago World's Fair

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

1918 influenza pandemic

• Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata

1953 Ionian Earthquake

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernieres

1974 Super Outbreak

• F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century by Mark Levine

1980s

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

1984

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

19th century

• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier

33rd Acqui Infantry Division Massacre

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernieres (September 1943)

9/11 Attacks

• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

Abolitionist Movement

• Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis

Afghan Civil War

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

AIDS epidemic

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Amarna Period

• Nefertiti: A Novel by Michelle Moran

American Civil War

• Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)

American Revolution

• The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition) by Joseph Campbell

Anatomy Act

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

Apollo 1 fire

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1967-01-27)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1967-01-27)

Apollo 10

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1969-05-26)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1969-05-26)

Apollo 11

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1969-07-24)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1969-07-24)

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1969-07-20)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1969-07-20)

Apollo 12

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1969-11-24)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1969-11-24)

Apollo 13

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1970-04-17)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1970-04-17)

Apollo 14

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1971-02-09)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1971-02-09)

Apollo 15

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1971-08-07)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1971-08-07)

Apollo 16

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1972-04-27)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1972-04-27)

Apollo 17

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1972-12-19)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1972-12-19)

Apollo 7

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1968-10-22)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1968-10-22)

Apollo 8

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1968-12-27)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1968-12-27)

Apollo 9

• Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (1969-03-13)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1969-03-13)

Apollo program

• Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon by David Reynolds (1975)
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen (1975)
• Full Moon by Michael Light (1975)
• Virtual Apollo: A Pictorial Essay of the Engineering and Construction of the Apollo Command and Service Modules: Apogee Books Space Series 30 (Apogee Books Space Series) by Scott Sullivan (1975)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• John F. Kennedy: A Biography by Michael O'Brien

Battle of Britain

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1940)

Battle of Stoney Creek

• The Rivers of War (The Trail of Glory) by Eric Flint

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (1995)

Big Bang

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

The Blitz

• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1941)

Blizzard of '78

• Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do by Michael Tougias

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)

Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

• The Brooklyn Bridge: The story of the world's most famous bridge and the remarkable family that built it. (Wonders of the World Book) by Elizabeth Mann

Chechena

• One Soldier's War by Arkady Babchenko

Chernobyl Disaster

• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich

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 out Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human by Richard Zacks (1212)

Christmas

• Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

Christmas Day

• Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

climate change

• The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian Fagan (Great Medieval Warming, 800-1300)

Cold War

• For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler
• The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome
• Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space by Deborah Cadbury

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact with Jupiter

• Comets: Creators and Destroyers by David H. Levy

Cultural Revolution

• Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min

Discovery of the Titanic

• Titanic: Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner by Susan Wels (1985-09-01)

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 Rising

• At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill (1916)

Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt

• Nefertiti: A Novel by Michelle Moran

End of Time

• The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics by Julian Barbour

Endurance Expedition

• The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (1914-1917)

Fall of France

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

Funeral Rule

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (1982)

Genesis creation narrative

• The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition) by Joseph Campbell

Geneva Initiative

• Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter

Gilded Age

• Building the Titanic: An Epic Tale of the Creation of History's Most Famous OceanLiner by Rod Green
• Titanic: Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner by Susan Wels

global warming

• An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore

The Great Stink

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

Greek Civil War

• Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel by Louis de Bernieres (1946 - 1949)

Halley's Comet

• Comet by Carl Sagan (1986-05)

Hurricane Katrina

• 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose (2005-08)

invention of printing

• Type: The Secret History of Letters by Simon Loxley

Iranian Revolution

• House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus III (1979)

Mariner 9 Mission

• Beyond Jupiter: The Worlds of Tomorrow by Arthur C Clarke

Mount St. Helens Eruption

• Echoes of Fury: The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens and the Lives It Changed Forever by Frank Parchman

New Kingdom of Egypt

• Nefertiti: A Novel by Michelle Moran

Nuisances Removal and Contagious Diseases Prevention Act

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

Operation Enduring Freedom

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Ordovician

• Cincinnati Fossils : An Elementary Guide to the Ordivician Rocks and Fossils of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Region by R. A. (editor) Davis

Oslo Agreement

• Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter

Panic of 1893

• Thunderstruck by Erik Larson (1897)

Pentagon Papers

• The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times by Susan E. Tifft

plate tectonics

• Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey

Poor Law Acts

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

Public Health Act

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

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

• Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year by Greg King (1897)

Romanticism

• In Search of Frankenstein: Exploring the Myths Behind Mary Shelley's Monster by Radu Florescu ( 1850)

Russian Civil War

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917 ∙ 1921)

Russian Revolution

• Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin by Neal Bascomb (1905)
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917)

September 11 Attacks

• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (2001-09-11)
• A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath by Nancy Lee (2001-09-11)

Sierra Leone Civil War

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Sinking of the Titanic

• Building the Titanic: An Epic Tale of the Creation of History's Most Famous OceanLiner by Rod Green (1912-04-15)
• Ghosts Of The Abyss: A Journey Into The Heart Of The Titanic by Don Lynch (1912-04-15)
• Titanic: Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner by Susan Wels (1912-04-15)

Spanish Civil War

• The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Paul Preston (1939)

Summer in Italy

• In Search of Frankenstein: Exploring the Myths Behind Mary Shelley's Monster by Radu Florescu (1816)

Super Bowl

• Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

• Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle (1911-03-25)

Vietnam War

• Soul Soldiers: African Americans And the Vietnam Era by Samuel W. Black
• Goodnight Saigon by Charles Henderson (1975)

Virginia Woolf's suicide

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1941-03-28)

Voyager Space mission

• Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record by Carl Sagan

War of 1812

• Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence by A.J. Langguth
• The Rivers of War (The Trail of Glory) by Eric Flint (1812-1815)

World Trade Center attack

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

World Trade Center Attack

• Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan (2001-9-11)

World War I

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata

World War II

• Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web by Lynn H. Nicholas
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
• Witnesses of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt
• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell ( 1945)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (1945)
• The Pacific War: 1941-1945 by John Costello (1945)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• The Pacific War: 1941-1945 by John Costello (1945-09-02)

World War III

• 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell

World's Columbian Exposition

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