Book Topics: Historical Events
Book Recommendations by Theme are listed here in order to help teachers, book club organizers, and other readers find books organized around a common principle, or big idea. Please see the Main Page List of Themes for more categories, as well as Book Lists by Topic
There are many other historical fiction and historical nonfiction titles on the site.
Books listed here refer to specific social movements or events from history.
Books listed here refer to specific social movements or events from history.
Before 1800
Paleolithic Period
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Orphaned (Ape Quartet #4)
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Genpai War, 12th Century Japan
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King Henry VII's Claim to the
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Renaissance; Italy
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European Colonization of the Americas |
Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia
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Accusations of Witchcraft in America
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The American Revolution
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1801 - 1900
European Westward Expansion Across the U.S.; Life and Decline of Native American Societies
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The U.S. Civil War;
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Kraziai Massacre, 1893;
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San Francisco Plague, 1900
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1901 - 2000
U.S. Industrialization; Factory Working Conditions
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Uprising - the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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Women's Suffrage
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The Great Depression - U.S.; Dust Bowl |
Stalin's Rise to Power;
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World War II
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The Bicycle Spy - French countryside
Climbing the Stairs - India Code Name Verity - U.S., Britain Code Talker - Navajo codes A Diamond in the Desert - Japanese internment camps Echo - Germany, Pennsylvania, California Flygirl - WASP (female American pilots in WWII) Incommunicado - in U.S.; racism toward Japanese I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor Maus - Nazi Invasion of Poland Milkweed - Warsaw Ghetto A Night Divided - East Berlin after the wall went up Number the Stars - Denmark On the Wings of Heroes - in U.S.; older brother at war Raid of No Return - American pilots bomb Japan Resistance - Polish ghettos Number the Stars Romeo Blue - in U.S.; spies Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Hiroshima Salt to the Sea - sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, refugees The War That Saved My Life - British city to countryside When My Name Was Keoko - Japanese invasion of Korea |
The Partition of India
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McCarthyism;
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The U.S. Civil Rights Movement
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Lies We Tell Ourselves - school integration The Lions of Little Rock - school integration The Long Ride - school busing, integration One Crazy Summer Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom |
1967 Six-Day War
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U.S. - Vietnam War
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Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam
A Million Shades of Gray Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War |
U.S. - Soviet Cold War; Space Race
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U.S. Space Program: Challenger
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1990s Refugees; The Lost Boys of Sudan
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2001 - Present
September 11th Attacks
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Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story
Towers Falling |
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Harvey
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I Survived Hurricane Katrina
Ninth Ward Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere The Puttermans Are in the House |
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