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Summary: 833 Events.
11th century
12th century
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
13th century
- The Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi
- The Life and Death of King John (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- The Travels of Marco Polo: Edited by Peter Harris (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Marco Polo
14th century
- The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Dante Alighieri
- Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Hafez
- The Inferno of Dante: Bilingual Edition by Dante
- King Edward III by William Shakespeare
- Richard II (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (1300s)
- The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio (1300s)
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1300s)
15th century
- Henry IV, Part 1 (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- Henry IV, Part 2 (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- Henry V (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- Henry VI Part III (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- Henry VI, Part 1 (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- Henry VI, Part 2 (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
1620s
16th century
- Don Quijote de la Mancha (Spanish Edition) by Miguel Cervantes
- Don Quixote, Part 1, Cervantes (Harvard Classics Deluxe Edition, 14) by Charles W. (editor) Eliot
- Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics) by Francois Rabelais
- Henry VIII (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- The Merchant of Venice (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare
- Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- The Moor's Account: A Novel by Laila Lalami
- The Prince (Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Utopia (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Thomas More
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
1770s
- 1776 by David McCullough
- The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States (Bantam Classic) by Thomas Jefferson
1776
1780s
- The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States (Bantam Classic) by Thomas Jefferson
1788-89 US presidential election
1792 US presidential election
1796 presidential election
17th century
- The House of the Seven Gables (International Collectors Library) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Alexandre Dumas
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Yearling Newbery) by Elizabeth George Speare
- Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (1600s)
1800 US presidential election
1820s
1830s
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
- 1776 by David McCullough
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
- Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Francois Voltaire
- The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States (Bantam Classic) by Thomas Jefferson
- A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Penguin Classics) by Henry Fielding
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
- A Tale of Two Cities (Everyman's Library) by Charles Dickens
- Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America) by Thomas Paine
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
1910s
1940s
- Ashes and Diamonds (European Classics) by Jerzy Andrzejewski
- Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller
1945
1949
1960s
1965
1970s
1980s
1990s
1993
1996 Mount Everest Disaster
19th century
- Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Everyman's Library) by Alexandre Dumas
- David Copperfield (Everyman's Library) by Charles Dickens
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
- Great Expectations (Everyman's Library) by Charles Dickens
- The House of the Seven Gables (International Collectors Library) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Little Women, The Franklin Library [[Hardcover] 1982] by Louisa May Alcott
- Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by George Eliot
- Les Miserables (Modern Library) by Victor Hugo
- Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist (Everyman's Library Classics) by Charles Dickens
- The Red Badge of Courage (Bantam Classics) by Stephen Crane
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Pantheon Graphic Novels) by Sydney Padua
- The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
1st century
- The Agricola and the Germania ( Classics S.) by h Tacitus / Mattingly
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Modern Library Classics) by Lew Wallace
- Claudius the God by Robert Graves
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World's Classics) by Suetonius
1st century BCE
- Antony and Cleopatra (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World's Classics) by Suetonius
2-3-74
2008 Presidential Campaign
2nd century
4th century BCE
- Aristotle Poetics by Aristotle
- The Art of Rhetoric (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle
- Politics by Aristotle
- Tao Te Ching (Penguin Great Ideas) by Lao Tzu
5th century
5th century BCE
6th century BCE
74th Annual Hunger Games
75th Annual Hunger Games
9-11
9/11 Attacks
- The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authori by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
- Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh
Abolition of polygamy in the United States
Abu Ghraib Prison scandal
Aemilius Scaurus leads Pompey's armies into Judea
Aeneas Wars on Rutulians
Afghan Civil War
Afghan Wars
Afghanistan War, 2001-
African-American Civil Rights Movement
- At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Meridian by Alice Walker
- The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
- Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
Age of Sail
- The Far Side of the World (Vol. Book 10) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian
- The Golden Ocean by Patrick O'Brian
- H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
- Hornblower During the Crisis (Hornblower Saga (Paperback)) by C. S. Forester
- Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
- The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
- The Nutmeg of Consolation (Vol. Book 14) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian
- Post Captain (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
- Treason's Harbour (Vol. Book 9) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian
- Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Modern Library Classics) by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
AIDS epidemic
- Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes : Perestroika (Angels in America) by Tony Kushner
- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Angels in America) by Tony Kushner
Alchemy in Renaissance and early modern Europe
Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
Alien Invasion
American Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- Grant Moves South by Catton Bruce
- Little Women, The Franklin Library [[Hardcover] 1982] by Louisa May Alcott
- Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
- Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness by W. Paul Reeve
- Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah by Tom Chaffin
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
- 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart (1865)
- A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White Jr. (1865)
- Abraham Lincoln: the War Years - I (Vol 3) by Carl Sandburg (1865)
- Abraham Lincoln: the War Years - II (Vol 4) by Carl Sandburg (1865)
- Abraham Lincoln: the War Years - III (Vol 5) by Carl Sandburg (1865)
- The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan (1865)
- The Army of the Potomac: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (1865)
- The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road by Bruce Catton by Bruce Catton (1865)
- The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army by Catton Bruce (1865)
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (1865)
- The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 (Modern Library) by Shelby Foote (1865)
- Boneshaker (Sci Fi Essential Books) by Cherie Priest (1865)
- The centennial history of the Civil War., 3 Vol Set, (Vol I: The coming fury, Vol II: Terrible swift sword, Vol III: Never call by Bruce Catton (1865)
- Citizen Sherman:: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman (Modern War Studies) by Michael Fellman (1865)
- The Civil War: A Narrative: Five Forks to Appomattox: Victory and Defeat (# 9 in series) by Shelby Foote (1865)
- The Civil War: Petersburg to Savannah (The Civil War, VIII) by Shelby Foote (1865)
- The Coming Fury, Volume One; The Centennial History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton (1865)
- Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1865)
- Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic by Robert K. Krick (1865)
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1865)
- From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States) by George C. Herring (1865)
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride (1865)
- Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood (1865)
- Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton (1865)
- A History of the Supreme Court by the late Bernard Schwartz (1865)
- The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1865)
- Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command by Douglas Southall Freeman (1865)
- Lee's Terrible Swift Sword: From Antietam to Chancellorsville: an Eyewitness History by Richard Wheeler (1865)
- Lees Lieutenants (3 Volumes In One Abridged) : A Study in Command by Douglas Southall Freeman (1865)
- Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1865)
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America by Garry Wills (1865)
- Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief by Geoffrey Perret (1865)
- Lincoln, A Novel by Gore Vidal (1865)
- Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made it by Michael J. Trinklein (1865)
- The Mysterious Island (Modern Library Classics) by Jules Verne (1865)
- Never Call Retreat: the Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume 3. by Bruce Catton; Director Of Research E.B. Long (1865)
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1865)
- The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester (1865)
- Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor (1865)
- Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign (Civil War America) by Peter Cozzens (1865)
- Shiloh: A novel by Shelby Foote (1865)
- Stars in Their Courses : The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 by Shelby Foote (1865)
- Stonewall: A Biography of General Thomas J. Jackson by Byron Farwell (1865)
- Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History Of Mcclellan's Peninsula Campaign by Richard Wheeler (1865)
- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)
- Terrible Swift Sword by Bruce Catton (1865)
- TO APPOMATOX by Burke Davis (1865)
- Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson (1865)
- Unvexed to the Sea :A Civil War Narrative Gettysburg to Vicksburg (Volume 5) by Shelby Foote (1865)
- We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald (1865)
- The Red Badge of Courage (Bantam Classics) by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)
- Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier (1861–1865)
American Declaration of Independence
- 1776 by David McCullough (1776)
American Revolution
- Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin
- Burr by Gore Vidal
- The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States (Bantam Classic) by Thomas Jefferson
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
- Gentleman Revolutionary : Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution by Richard Brookhiser
- A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff
- Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made it by Michael J. Trinklein
- Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence by Joseph J. Ellis
- To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda by Derek Leebaert
- Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series) by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (1783)
- 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 Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Robert J. Allison (1783)
- The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence (Library of America) by Various (1783)
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson (1783)
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (1783)
- Common Sense (Penguin Great Ideas) by Thomas Paine (1783)
- From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States) by George C. Herring (1783)
- The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States) by Robert Middlekauff (1783)
- His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis (1783)
- A History of the Supreme Court by the late Bernard Schwartz (1783)
- Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger (1783)
- Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism by Eric Burns (1783)
- Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (American Icons Series) by Gore Vidal (1783)
- John Adams: 2 Volume Set in Slipcase by Page Smith (1783)
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes ( 1783)
- Lexington and Concord (Norton Library) by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot (1783)
- Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood (1783)
- Spies of the Revolution by Katherine Bakeless (1783)
- John Adams by David McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)
- Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America) by Thomas Paine (1775 ∙ 1783)
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson (1775-1783)
American Revolution 1775-1783
Antebellum South
- The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead
- The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Anti-Rent War
Antiochus IV desecrates the Temple
Apartheid
Apollo 11
- Of a Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer (1969-07-24)
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
- Of a Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer (1969-07-20)
Apollo program
- Of a Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer (1975)
Appin Murder
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1752)
Arab Revolt
- Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Ala Notable Books for Adults) by Scott Anderson (1918)
Arian heresy
Armageddon
Arthurian England
Articles of Confederation
- Gentleman Revolutionary : Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution by Richard Brookhiser
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
- Protecting President Lincoln: The Security Effort, the Thwarted Plots and the Disaster at Ford's Theatre by Frederick Hatch
- We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald
- 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart (1865-04)
- Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1865-04)
- Lincoln, A Novel by Gore Vidal (1865-04)
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1865-04-14)
Assassination of Huey Long, 1935
Assassination of James A. Garfield
- Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (1881)
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
- The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years by Edward Klein
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- American Tabloid: A Novel by James Ellroy (1963-11-22)
- The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy (1963-11-22)
- A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon (1963-11-22)
- The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963 by Laurence Leamer (1963-11-22)
- Oswald's Tale:: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer (1963-11-22)
- Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1963-11-22)
- The Sword And The Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The Kgb by Christopher Andrew (1963-11-22)
Assassination of Julius Caesar
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy (1968-04-04)
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
- The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years by Edward Klein
- Miami and the Siege of Chicago (New York Review Books Classics) by Norman Mailer
- The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy (1968-06-05)
Assassination of the Gracchi
assassinations
- The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo by B. H. Roberts (Joseph Smith)
Atlantic Conference
- Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands (1941)
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- The English Patient
- Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (1945)
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition by Richard Rhodes (1945)
- A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (1945)
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1945)
- Truman by David McCullough (1945)
Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Perfidia: A novel by James Ellroy (1941-12-07)
Attempted suicide of Sylvia Plath
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (August 1953)
Attica Prison Riot
August coup
Augustine's conversion
Autumn Feast
Avianca aircrash
Babylonian Captivity
Bacon's Rebellion
- North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1676)
Bangladesh War of Independence
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1971)
baseball
Battle of Actium
Battle of Agincourt
- The Face of Battle by John Keegan (1415-10-25)
- Henry V (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (1415-10-25)
Battle of Alexandria
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ([1801])
Battle of Antietam
- The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army by Catton Bruce
- Lee's Terrible Swift Sword: From Antietam to Chancellorsville: an Eyewitness History by Richard Wheeler (1862-09-17)
Battle of Anzio
Battle of Berlin
Battle of Borodino
Battle of Bosworth Field
- Richard III by William Shakespeare (1485-08-22)
Battle of Britain
- Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
- Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Caporetto
Battle of Champion's Hill
- The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 (Modern Library) by Shelby Foote (1863-05-16)
Battle of Chancellorsville
- The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan
- The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road by Bruce Catton by Bruce Catton (1863-05-06)
- Lee's Terrible Swift Sword: From Antietam to Chancellorsville: an Eyewitness History by Richard Wheeler (1863-05-06)
Battle of Crete
Battle of Cross Keys
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Battle of El Alamein
- An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson
Battle of Five Armies
Battle of Five Forks
- The Civil War: A Narrative: Five Forks to Appomattox: Victory and Defeat (# 9 in series) by Shelby Foote (1865-04-01)
Battle of Fredericksburg
- The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road by Bruce Catton by Bruce Catton (1862-12-13)
Battle of Gettysburg
- The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan (1863-07-03)
- The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road by Bruce Catton by Bruce Catton (1863-07-03)
- The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Michael Shaara (1863-07-03)
- Stars in Their Courses : The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 by Shelby Foote (1863-07-03)
- Unvexed to the Sea :A Civil War Narrative Gettysburg to Vicksburg (Volume 5) by Shelby Foote (1863-07-03)
Battle of Hogwarts
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Battle of Kasserine Pass
- An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson
Battle of Little Big Horn
Battle of Long Island
- 1776 by David McCullough (1776-08-27)
Battle of Lützen
Battle of Maldon
- The Long Ships (New York Review Books Classics) by Frans G. Bengtsson (Battle of Maeldun)
Battle of Marathon
- The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus
- The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (490 BCE)
Battle of Midway
Battle of Mobile Bay
Battle of Mogadishu
Battle of Mons Graupius
Battle of Mont Cenis
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss (1794)
Battle of New Orleans
Battle of Pharsalus
- The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War by Kurt A. Raaflaub
Battle of Philippi
- Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy (42 BCE)
Battle of Port Republic
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 Rivoli
Battle of Rorke's Drift
Battle of Salamis
- The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE-09)
Battle of Shiloh
- The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan (1862-04-07)
- Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood (1862-04-07)
- Shiloh: A novel by Shelby Foote (1862-04-07)
Battle of the Atlantic
- The Battle Of The Atlantic: The Allies' Submarine Fight Against Hitler's Gray Wolves Of The Sea by Andrew Williams (1945)
Battle of the Bulge
- Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
- The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson
- Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) by David M. Kennedy (1945)
- The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoon by Alex Kershaw (1945)
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)
Battle of the Department of Mysteries
Battle of the Hornburg
- The Return of the King (The Lord of The Rings, Part 3) by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Black Hills: A Novel by Dan Simmons (1876-06-26)
- The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick (1876-06-26)
Battle of the Milvian Bridge
- Constantine the Emperor by David Potter (312-10-28)
Battle of the Nile
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ( [1798])
Battle of the Pyramids
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss ([1798])
Battle of the Somme
- The Face of Battle by John Keegan (1916)
- A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway (1916)
- The First World War by John Keegan (1916-11-18)
Battle of the Thames
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Thermopylae
- The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus
- The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus (480 BCE)
Battle of Trafalgar
- The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon by Alexandre Dumas (1805-10-21)
Battle of Trenton
- 1776 by David McCullough (1776-12-26)
Battle of Vienna
Battle of Waterloo
- Les Miserables (Modern Library) by Victor Hugo (1815)
- The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library) by Stendhal (1815-06-18)
- The Face of Battle by John Keegan (1815-06-18)
- Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life by Alan Schom (1815-06-18)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke ([1815])
Battle of Yorktown
Battles of Lexington and Concord
- American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (1775-04-19)
- The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence (Library of America) by Various (1775-04-19)
- Lexington and Concord (Norton Library) by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot (1775-04-19)
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Beat Generation
Berlin Crisis of 1961
Big Bang
- The Complete Cosmicomics (Penguin Modern Classics) by Italo Calvino
- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
The Big Burn
the Big Ride
Birth of Jesus
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Modern Library Classics) by Lew Wallace
- The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation by Michael O. Wise (6) (Luke 2:4-7)
Birth of Jesus Christ
Black Death
- The Decameron (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio
- In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F. Cantor (1350)
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1340s)
Black Hawk War
- We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald
- Black Hawk: An Autobiography (Prairie State Books) by various editors (1832)
Black Lives Matter
Bleeding Kansas
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride (1859)
The Blitz
- Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)
- The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene (1941)
Bloody Assizes
Bloomsday
Bolshevik Revolution
Bombing of Dresden
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1945-02)
Bombing of Libya
Boston Massacre
Boston Police Strike
Boston Tea Party
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson (1773-12-16)
boxing
the break up of the Moon
Bretton Woods Conference
Brexit
British Occupation of India
- A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (1765-1947)
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)
Brown v. Board of Education
- Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) by Toni Morrison (1954)
The building of the Analytic Engine
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Pantheon Graphic Novels) by Sydney Padua
The building of the Difference Engine
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Pantheon Graphic Novels) by Sydney Padua
Building of the Panama Canal
Bulgarian 9 June 1923 coup d'etat
Burr-Hamilton Duel
- Burr 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)
Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98
Butlerian Jihad
- Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
- God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
California Gold Rush
- The Sisters Brothers: A Novel by Patrick Dewitt
- In the Distance by Hernan Diaz (1855)
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1848–1855)
Calydonian Boar Hunt
Casablanca Conference
- Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands (1943)
Catalinarian Rebellion
Catilina's Revolt
Centennial Exhibition of 1876
- Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Chairman of Public Service Commission, 1922
Chattanooga Campaign
Chicago World's Fair
- Black Hills: A Novel by Dan Simmons (1893)
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (1893)
Children's Cancer Research Foundation
Chilean Coup
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (1973)
- The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh (1973)
Chimney Sweepers Act
Chinese-Japanese War
Cholera Epidemic
Christmas
- Appointment in Samarra: A Novel by John O'Hara
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Modern Library Classics) by Lew Wallace
- Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories (Penguin Christmas Classics) by Anthony Trollope
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Christmas Stories (Everyman's Library) by Diana Secker Tesdell
- Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
- The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity by James D. Tabor
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
- Little Women, The Franklin Library [[Hardcover] 1982] by Louisa May Alcott
- Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Complete) by Tchaikovsky
- Twelfth Night (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Christmas Day
- Christmas Stories (Everyman's Library) by Diana Secker Tesdell
- Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
Christmas Eve
Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World
Civil Rights Movement, USA
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
civil war between Aristobulus II and Hyrcanus II
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
Classical Antiquity
- The Greek Myths (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Robert Graves
- The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander by Homer
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- Mythology, by Edith Hamilton, illustrated by Steele Savage by Edith Hamilton
- The Odyssey (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity) by Homer
climate change
Clutter family murder
- In Cold Blood by Capote Truman (1959-11-15)
COINTELPRO
Cold War
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
- Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag
- Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency by James Bamford
- Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times by George Crile
- The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. McMahon
- A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
- From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States) by George C. Herring
- House of War by James Carroll
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
- A Perfect Spy by John le Carre
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin
- Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
- The Sisters by Robert Littell
- A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels) by John Le Carré
- The Sword And The Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The Kgb by Christopher Andrew
- Thirteen Days A Memoir of the Cuban Missle Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Franklin Mystery) by John Le Carrè
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
- Welcome to the Monkey House (Dell #9478) by Kurt Vonnegut
- The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for The Third World by Christopher Andrew
- Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)
Colonization of the Americas
Colonizing the New World
Compromise of 1790
Compromise of 1850
- 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart (1850)
Conflict of the Orders
Constitution of the United States
- The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States (Bantam Classic) by Thomas Jefferson
Constitutional Convention
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
- Gentleman Revolutionary : Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution by Richard Brookhiser
- The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West by Joel Achenbach
- Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
- Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787 by Catherine Drinker Bowen
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)
Continental Congress
- First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
- John Adams by David McCullough
- Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
The Council of Elrond
Council of Nicaea
Council of Trent
Coup of Juan Velasco Alvarado
- The Bad Girl: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa (1968)
Creation
- Genesis: Translation and Commentary by Robert Alter (Genesis 1-2)
Creation of Narnia
Creation of the world
- Adam, Eve, and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels
- American Indian Myths and Legends (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library) by Richard Erdoes
Creation of Turkey
Creek War
- North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue
- Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire 1767-1821 (1814)
Crimean War
Crittenden Compromise
Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth
The Crusades
Cuban Missile Crisis
- The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh
- Thirteen Days A Memoir of the Cuban Missle Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy (1962)
- Underworld by Don DeLillo (1962)
D-Day
- The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-day Sacrifice by Alex Kershaw (1944-06-06)
- Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre (1944-06-06)
- The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson (1944-06-06)
- The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day by Cornelius Ryan (1944-06-06)
D-Day, Normandy, France 1944
The Day of the Dead
Death and Resurrection of Aslan
Death of Alexander the Great
- THE STORY OF CIVILIZATON THE LIFE OF GREECE (323 BCE-06-11)
Death of Christopher McCandless
- Into the Wild by Krakauer Jon (1992)