Book Events for Eschwa
Events within the books in Eschwa's library
1690s
1692
17th century
1860s
1920s
1923
1940s
1941
1949
1990s
1999
19th century
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
- Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa (New York Review Books) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2008 Presidential Campaign
9/11 Attack on NY World Trade Center
African-American Civil Rights Movement
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939 by Paul Robeson Jr.
AIDS epidemic
Algerian War
American Civil War
Anti-communist Movements -- USA
The Blitz
Bombing of Cologne
Bombing of Hamburg
Bread and Roses Strike
- Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson (1912)
Brexit
Brown v. Board of Education
Burning of Pennsylvania Hall
Chilean Coup
- A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
- The House of the Spirits: A Novel by Isabel Allende (1973)
Christmas
Compromise of 1850
Crimean War
Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth
Dissolution of the Monasteries
Election of Barack Obama to U.S. Presidency
Ethiopian Revolution, 1974
Fall of Saigon
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
Funeral of Brunetti's mother
- The Girl of His Dreams: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, 17) by Donna Leon
Gemini 9
Great Depression
- Lila: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1930s)
Guga Hunt
Gulf War, 1990-1991
Hajj
Harlem Renaissance
- I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader by Zora Neale Hurston
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Holocaust
- Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald
- Comedy in a Minor Key: A Novel by Hans Keilson
- Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
- Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
- The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane San Felipe Segundo
Iran-Contra Affair
Iranian Revolution
Japanese Canadian Internment
Japanese-American Internment
- When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (1945)
Jazz Age
Korean War
Lynching of Emmett Till
March On Washington
McCarthy Era
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- Red Scare in the Green Mountains: The McCarthy Era in Vermont 1946-1960 by Rick Winston
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Moon Landing
Murder of George Tiller
Napoleonic Wars
Nigerian-Biafran War
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1970)
Nuclear War
Okeechobee hurricane
Operation Vestal
Panic of 1837
Parsley Massacre
The Pearl Incident
Pinochet regime
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Project Gemini
Rape/Birth
- Minor Detail by Shibli Adania (August 13, 1949)
Reconstruction Era of the United States
Reign of Henry VIII
- Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries) by C. J. Sansom (1547-01-28)
Riot of 1964 instigated by the police shooting of James Powell
Romanticism
Salem witch trials
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1692)
Separation of Pakistand and Bangladesh
September 11 Attacks
- Double Vision by Pat Barker
- Red at the Bone: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A Novel by Hamid Mohsin (2007-04-03) Hardcover
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
Slavery
Spanish Civil War
Sweet Trials
- Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle (Detroit, MI : 1925-1926)
Trial of Socrates
Tulsa Race Massacre
Valdivia earthquake
- The House of the Spirits: A Novel by Isabel Allende (1960-05-22)
Victorian Era
Vietnam War
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
- The Sympathizer Hardcover – April 7, 2015 by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Virginia Woolf's suicide
- The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (1941-03-28)
War crimes in Europe.
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
Wartime evacuation of children from London
- Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks (1939-1943)
Watergate Scandal
World War I
- Another World by Pat Barker
- La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc
- The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
- Life Class by Pat Barker
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Regeneration by Pat Barker
- Depths by Henning Mankell (1918)
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1918)
- Fear: A Novel of World War I (New York Review Books Classics) by Gabriel Chevallier (1918)
- Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (1918)
World War I, Western Front,
World War II
- Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald
- La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc
- Comedy in a Minor Key: A Novel by Hans Keilson
- The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald
- Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
- The Girl Next Door: A Novel by Ruth Rendell
- Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
- The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
- Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (1945)
- When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (1945)
World War II, British Home Front
- The Man Who Wasn't There by Pat Barker
- Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
World War II, German Occupation of the Netherlands
World War II, Pacific Theater
- When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (1945-09-02)