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Anderson, Laurie Halse

Fever, 1793

** 580L 251p. 

1793 Philadelphia, Yellow Fever epidemic   

Andreassen, Dan

On Tide Mill Lane

*** 860 258p. 

1812 War

Anthony, Patricia

Flanders

**** 354p.  

1917 World War I trench warfare

Armstrong, Jennifer

Steal Away

** 690   206p.

1855 runaway slaves

Askew, Rilla

Mercy Seat

***** 427p.

1888 Oklahoma Indian territory

Auch, Mary Jane

Ashes of Roses

** 670  250p.

1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire

Avi

Fighting Ground

* 580   157p.

Revolutionary War

Backer, Sara

American Fuji

**** 373p.

Modern U.S. – Japanese foreign relations

Bahr, Howard

Black Flower

*** 267p.

Civil War battles in Tennessee

Bahr, Howard

Year of Jubilo

**** 376p.

Mississippi just after the Civil War

Baker, Kevin

Dreamland

***** 519p.

1909 to 1930’s illegal immigrant becomes a Mafia don

Bat-Ami, Miriam

Two Suns in the Sky

* 550 223p.

1944 refugee camp for Jews in upstate NY

Beatty, Patricia

Jayhawker

** 780 214p.

Civil War in Kansas

Beatty, Patricia

Who comes with cannons

** 760 186p.

1861 early Civil War

Beatty, Patricia

Turn Homeward, Hannalee

** 830 193p.

Civil War civilian relocations

Blackwood, Gary L.

Year of the Hangman

** 820   196p.

1777 Revolutionary War

Blume, Judy

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself

** 700

1946 Jews settling in the U.S. after WWII

Brady, James

Warning of War

**** 341p.

World War II’s North China Marines

Brady, James

Marine

**** 303p.

Korean War

Bragg, Melvyn

Soldier’s Return

**** 346p.

1946 after WWII

Brenaman, Miriam

Evvy’s Civil War

** 730 209p.

1860 slavery in Virginia

Breslin, Jimmy

Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight

*** FLP -- LP 249p.

Sicilian Mafia satire

Brown, Dan

Digital Fortress

*** 850 371p.

contemporary CIA

Brown, Dee

Way to Bright Star

*** 352p.

Civil War 1860’s

Buckley, William F.

Spytime

*** 305p.

WWII through the Cold War: spies and U.S. counterintelligence

Burke, James Lee

White Doves at Morning

*** 305p. 

Civil War

Burke, James Lee

Lay Down My Sword and Shield

*** 226p.

Civil Rights Movement

Byrd, Max

Jackson

**** 421p.

Andrew Jackson

Byrd, Max

Grant

**** 362p.

Fictionalized biography of President U. S. Grant

Cather,Willa

Death Comes to the Archbishop

***** 1150 614p.

Santa Fe and development of the Southwest

Coldsmith, Don

South Wind

**** 436p.

Kansas 1846 race riots

Collier, James Lincoln

My Brother Sam Is Dead

** 770 Fels 216p.

Revolutionary War

Collier, James Lincoln

Jump Ship to Freedom

** 850   198p.

1787 fugitive slave

Collier, James Lincoln

War Comes to Willy Freeman

** 800   178p.

Revolutionary War

Collier, James Lincoln

With Every Drop of Blood

** 820 178p.

Revolutionary War

Cooney, Carolyn

Burning up

** 720 230p.

1950’s racial violence

Cormier, Robert

Heroes

***1050 135p.

Soldier returns from WWII

Cormier, Robert

After the First Death

** 740 233p.

1980’s terrorism

Cornwell, Bernard

Rebel

*** 308p. 

Civil War

Cornwell, Bernard

Copperhead

**** 375p. 

Civil War

Crabbe, Richard E.

Suspension

**** 436p. 

Reconstruction Era

Crane, Stephen

Red Badge of Courage

** 900  English Dept.

Civil War 

Crichton, Michael

Rising Sun

** 540 355p.

Modern Japanese – U.S. foreign relations

Cushman, Karen

Ballad of Lucy Whipple

*** 1030 195p.

1849 California Gold Rush

Cuyler, Margery

Battlefield Ghost

* 660 103p.

Battle of Princeton

Dann, Jack

Silent

*** 279p.

Civil War atrocities

Danziger, Paula

Divorce Express

** 630 148p.

1969 Woodstock concert

Davis, Ossie

Just like Martin

** 820 215p.   

1963 Civil Rights marches

DeLillo, Don

Libra

**** 456p. 

Assassination of President Kennedy

Denenberg, Barry

When Will This Cruel War Be Over?

**** 1140 156p.   

Civil War civilian life: hardships

Denenberg, Barry

Early Sunday Morning

*** 930 156p.    

Pearl Harbor bombing

Denenberg, Barry

Journal of Ben Uchida

*** 850 156p.  

Japanese internment of WWII

Doctorow, E.L.

March

***** TU Paley Lib. 384p.

Civil War – Sherman’s March

Doig, Ivan

Prairie Nocturne

**** 384p. 

Harlem Renaissance

Durbin, William

Journal of Sean Sullivan

*** 1050 188p.

building the Transcontinental Railroad

Durrant, Lynda

Betsy Zane the Rose of Fort Henry

** 750 198p.

last battle of Revolutionary War

Dyja, Tom

Play for a Kingdom

**** 416p.

Baseball during the Civil War

Ellroy, James

American Tabloid

***** 571p.

1961-1963 Kennedy administration

Faulkner, William

Unvanquished

***** 1160 293p.

Reconstruction Era

Faulks, Sebastian

On Green Dolphin Street

**** 351p. 

1960 Cold War

Ferber, Edna

Giant

**** 416p.

Texas ranch 1950

Fisher, Karen

Sudden Country

**** 384p.

1847 Oregon & Hudson Bay Company

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Great Gatsby

**** 1070 English Dept.

1920’s

Flagg, Fannie

Standing in the Rainbow

****  464p 

1945-1965 Missouri

Fleischman, Paul

Saturnalia

*** 1030 113p.

New England colonies -- Deerfield, MA  Massacre

Fleischman, Paul

Borning Room

** 800 101p.

1810-1851 Ohio frontier

Fleischman, Paul

Bull Run

** 810 102p.

Civil War battle

Fleming, Thomas

Dreams of Glory

*** 301p.

Revolutionary War spies

Fleming, Thomas

When This Cruel War Is Over

*** 301p.

Civil War in the Northwest

Foote, Shelby

Shiloh

*** 226p.

Civil War battle

Forbes, Esther

Johnny Tremain

** 840 Fels  256p.

Paul Revere & Boston Tea Party

Forstchen, William

We Look Like Men of War

*** 188p.

Civil War black soldiers

Fox, Paula

Slave Dancer

** 970  Fels  176p.

slave trade

Fritz, Jean

Early Thunder

** 840 255p.

Massachusetts 1770

Fritz, Jean

Cabin Faced West

** 860 124p.

Western PA frontier days

Fritz, Jean

Make Way for Sam Houston

*** 1010 109p.

 Mexican War

Fritz, Jean

Brady

** 880 Fels  223p.

abolitionist activities in Pennsylvania

Gaines, Ernest J.

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

** 710 English Dept 245p.

19^th century USA as seen by a former slave who lived 114 yrs.

Gaines, Ernest J.

Lesson Before Dying

** 750 256p.

1940’s Louisiana & racism

Garland, Sherry

Line in the Sand

*** 960 201p.

Alamo

Gibbons, Kaye

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

*** FLP—LP 273p.

Post Civil War era in the North

Graham, Heather

Rebel

**** FLP – LP 429p.

Civil War spies

Greeley, Andrew M.

Irish Lace

**** 303p.

Civil War – Union prisons

Gregory, Kristiana

Five Smooth Stones

* 640 109p.

Philadelphia 1776

Grey, Zane

Betty Zane

*** 290p.

last battle of Revolutionary War

Griffin, W. E. B.

Retreat, Hell!

***** 576p.

Korean War

Griffin, W. E. B.

Under Fire

***** FLP – LP 576p.

Korean War

Grimes, Nikki

Bronx Masquerade

** 670 167p.

Harlem Renaissance

Grisham, John

Chamber

**** 810 486p.

KKK hate crimes

Groom, Winston

Forrest Gump

***** 1210 FLP – LP 228p.

1960’s and 1970’s

Grooms, Anthony

Bombingham

*** 304p.

1960’s

Gutman, Dan

Babe and Me

** 600 161p.

1932 World Series

Gutman, Dan

Qwerty Stevens Stuck in Time with Benjamin Franklin

** 710 183p.

July 4, 1776

Gutman, Dan

Jackie and Me

* 610 145p.

1947 first black NL baseball player

Gutman, Dan

Honus and Me

** 690 140p.

1909 Honus Wagner card

Gutman, Dan

 Mickey & Me

* 630 160p.

1944 Milwaukee Chicks women’s pro baseball team

Gutman, Dan

Shoeless Joe & Me

* 600 163p.

1919 Blacksox scandal

Hahn, Mary Downing

Promises to the Dead

*** 850 202p.

runaway slave

Hamilton,Virginia

Anthony Burns

*** 860 193p.

fugitive slave laws

Hamilton,Virginia

House of Dies Drear

** 670 English Dept. 246p.

Underground Railroad

Hampton,Wilborn

Kennedy Assassinated

** 96p

Assassination of President Kennedy

Hansen, Joyce

Captive

** 810 195p.

Paul Cuffe 1790’s

Hansen, Joyce

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

** 820 202p.

end of Civil War

Harrigan, Stephen

Gates of the Alamo

***** 581p.

Alamo

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Scarlet Letter

***** 1380 Fels 181p.

Massachusetts Colony

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Blythedale Romance

***** 1320 

Transcendentalists 1841

Heller, Joseph

Catch 22

**** 1140 Fels 

WW II satire

Hermes, Patricia

Our Strange New Land

* 430 109p.

Jamestown colony

Hermes, Patricia

Starving Time

* 430 109p.

Jamestown colony

Hermes, Patricia

Season of Promise

* 430 108p.

Jamestown colony

Hesse, Karen

Light in the Storm

** 850 169p.

1860-1861 Civil War in Delaware

Hesse, Karen

Letters from Rifka

** 660 Fels

Emigration to America 1919

Hesse, Karen

Out of the Dust

** Fels 227p.

Depression Dust Bowl

Hickam, Homer

Ambassador’s Son

*** 880 352p.

1943 WWII

Higgins, Joanna

Soldier’s Book

** 191p.

Civil War Wilderness Campaign

Hobbs, Will

Down the Yukon

** 790 193p.

Yukon Gold Rush

Hoffman, Alice

Blackbird House

**** 240p.

400 years history of a house on Cape Cod

Hooker, Richard

M.A.S.H.

***180p.

Korean War field hospital

Hughes, Dean

Soldier Boys

** 790 162p.

WWII Battle of the Bulge

Hull, Jonathan

Losing Julia

**** 358p.

20^th c. from WWI (Verdun) through 2000.

Hunt, Irene

Across Five Aprils

*** 1100 Fels  223p.

Civil War

Hunt, Irene

No Promises in the Wind

** 930 Fels 184p.

Depression 1932

Iida, Deborah

Middle Son

** 228p.

1950’s Hawaiian statehood

Jaffe, Rona

Road Taken

**** 388p.

20^th century events

Jakes, John

Charleston

**** 464p.

Civil War

Jakes, John

Rebels

***** 539p.

early American Republic

Jakes, John

North and South

***** 740p.

1842 West Point

Jakes, John

Savannah

*** 304p.

Civil War – Sherman’s March

Jakes, John

On Secret Service

**** 464p.

Secret Service -- assassination of Pres. Lincoln

Jakes, John

American Dreams

***** 495p.

early Hollywood / WWI

Jensen, Dorothea

Riddle of Penncroft Farm

** 860 180p.

Valley Forge

Johnson, Guy

Standing at the Scratch Line

***** 548p.

World War I

Johnston, Joan

Cowboy

*** FLP—LP 389p.

Western feuds

Johnstone, William W.

First Mountain Man

**** 318p.

Oregon Trail

Jones, Elizabeth McDavid

Watcher in the Piney Woods

** 730 144p.

1865 after Civil War

Jones, Madison

Nashville 1864

** 129p.

Civil War

Just, Ward

Dangerous Friend

*** 288p.

1950’s Chicago unions

Kanon, Joseph

Los Alamos

**** 403p.

Manhattan Project

Keith, Harold

Rifles for Watie

*** 910 Fels

Civil War

Kelton, Elmer

Ranger’s Trail

*** 287p.

Texas Rangers

Kelton, Elmer

Buckskin Line

*** 287p.

1861 Texas settlers

Kelton, Elmer

Jericho’s Road

*** 320p.

Texan / Mexican border disputes 19^th c. 

Kelton, Elmer

Way of the Coyote

*** 283p.

Wild West

Kelton, Elmer

Texas Vendetta

*** 301p.

Feuds – Texan outlaws

Kennedy, William

Roscoe

*** 292p.

1930’s Albany NY political machine

Kerr, M. E.

Slap Your Sides

** 700 198p.

World War II conscientious objectors

Kerr, M. E. 

Gentlehands

** 830 Fels 183p.

1970’s Nazi hunting

Kerr, Philip

Shot

**** 374p.

Assassination of JFK

Kilian, Michael

Murder at Manassas

*** 306p.

Civil War murder mystery

Kilian, Michael

Killing at Ball’s Bluff

**** 374p.

Civil War murder mystery

King, Stephen

Hearts in Atlantis

**** 870 523p.

1960’s and Vietnam War

Klein, Daniel M.

Blue Suede Clues

*** 231p.

Elvis Presley

Krisher, Trudy

Kinship

*** 740 299p.

Civil Rights

Krisher, Trudy

Spite Fences

*** 800 Fels 283p.

Jim Crow laws

Lamb, Wally

She’s Come Undone

*** 760 405p.

1960’s

Lambdin, Dewey

Sea of Grey

**** 391p.

Haitian slave rebellion of Toussaint L’Ouverture

Lambdin, Dewey

French Admiral

**** 414p.

American Revolution -- naval war

Larsen, Deborah

White

*** 240p.

18^th c. captive amongst the Seneca

Lasky, Kathryn

Journey to the New World

*** 900 173p. 

Mayflower voyage

Lasky, Kathryn

Beyond the Burning Time

*** 970 272p.

Salem Witch Trials

Lasky, Kathryn

Journal of Augustus Pelletier

*** 860 171p.

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Lasky, Kathryn

True North

** 780 267p.

Underground Railroad

Lasky, Kathryn

Alice Rose & Sam

** 790 252p.

Virginia City, NV Western

Lasky, Kathryn

Dreams in the Golden Country

** 770 188p.

NY  immigrant early 20^th c.

Lasky, Kathryn

American Spring

* 112p.

1903 immigrants in Boston

Lasky, Kathryn

Home at Last

** 730 108p.

counterpart novel to American Spring

Lasky, Kathryn

Hope in My Heart

* 630 108p.

1903 quarrantine at Ellis Island

Lasky, Kathryn

Time for Courage

** 217p.

1917 women’s suffrage

Lasky, Kathryn

Christmas After All

** 770 185p. 

1932 -- Depression in Indiana

Lehrer, Jim

Special Prisoner

*** 227p.

WWII Japanese POW camp

Lent, Jeffrey

In the Fall

***** 542p.

Civil War through Depression

Leonard, Elmore

Cuba Libre

**** 343p.

Spanish-American War

Lester, Julius

Days of Tears

** 176p.

slavery

Lester, Julius

This Strange New Feeling

** 840 Fels

slavery

Levine, Gail Carson

Dave at Night

** 490 281p.

Harlem Renaissance

Lyons, Mary E.

Letters from a Slave Girl

** 880 146p.

1842 slavery

Lyons, Mary E.

Dear Ellen Bee

** 161p.

Elizabeth Van Lew, an educated former slave girl -- biofiction

Magnuson, James

Orphan Train

***** 588p. Fels

1853-- Orphans takes to the American West

Marshall, Catherine

Christy

**** 930 Fels 501p.

1912 teacher in Appalachian coal town

Mason, Bobbie Ann

In Country

** 730 247p.

1980 – effects of Vietnam, Agent Orange, Vietnam Memorial Wall

Matas, Carol

War Within

** 690 151p.

evacuation of Jews during Civil War

Mazer, Harry

Boy at War

* 104p. 

attack on Pearl Harbor

Mazer, Harry

Last Mission

* 620 Fels 182p.

WWII – B-17 gunner

Mazer, Harry

Good Night Maman

* 510 185p.

After WWII --  refugee camp in NY

McCaig, Donald

Jacob’s Ladder

***** 525p.

1934 WPA

McCarry, Charles

Tears of Autumn

*** 276p. 

JFK assassination

McGrath, Patrick

Martha Peake

**** 400p.

Revolutionary War

McKissack, Pat

Days of Jubilee

*** 1040 

Emancipation

McMillan, Ann

Civil Blood

*** 196p.

1862 Civil War smallpox epidemic in Richmond, VA

McMurtry, Larry

Sin Killer

**** 256p.

1832 Frontier Wild West

Mead, Alice

Soldier Mom

* 480 151p.

Persian Gulf War

Michener, James A.

Bridges at Toko-Ri

*** 146p.

Korean War

Monfredo, Miriam Grace

Sisters of Cain

**** 368p.

Civil War

Monfredo, Miriam Grace

Children of Cain

*** 335p.

Civil War spies

Mordan, C. B.

Orphan Journey Home

* 570 162p.

War of 1812

Morgan, Robert

Truest Pleasure

*** 334p.

early 20^th c. Pentacostalism in Blue Ridge Mtns.

Morris, Willie

Taps

**** 320p.

Korean War

Morrison, Toni

Paradise

**** Fels 318p.

1890’s – 1970’s  Ruby, Oklahoma

Morrison, Toni

Jazz

*** 229p.

Harlem Jazz Age

Murphy, Jim

American Plague

**** 1130 165p.

Philadelphia 1793

Murphy, Jim

Journal of James Edmond Pease

*** 1070 173p.

Civil War

Myers, Anna

Keeping Room

** 780 135p.

Revolutionary War

Myers, Walter Dean

Journal of Biddy Owens

*** 920  141p.

Negro major league baseball

Myers, Walter Dean

Glory Field

*** 800 Fels 375p.

1750-1990 South Carolina family’s history

Myers, Walter Dean

Journal of Joshua Loper

*** 1000 158p.

1871 cattle drive

Myers, Walter Dean

Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner

*** 980 140p.

1882 Tombstone AZ gunslingers

Myers, Walter Dean

Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins

** 810 140p.

D-Day -- WWII

Myers, Walter Dean

Fallen Angels

** 650 309p.

1967-68 Vietnam War

Myers, Walter Dean

Hoops

** 740 183p.

Pro basketball scandals in 1960’s

Myers, Walter Dean

Outside Shot

** 770 185p.

College basketball corruption

Myers, Walter Dean

Scorpions

** 610 216p.

Harlem gangs

Myers, Walter Dean

Young Landlords

*** 820 197p.

1970’s urban renewal efforts

Na, An

Step from Heaven

** 670 156p.

Korean immigrants

Nevin, David

1812

*****   445p.

Dolley and James Madison and the War of 1812

Nevin, David

Eagle’s Cry

**** 448p.

U.S. during John Adams’s presidency

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Ann’s Story

* 670 147p.

18^th c. Williamsburg

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Maria’s Story

** 820 167p.

1773, Williamsburg

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Family Apart

** 820 162p.

1860 Missouri & Children’s Aid Society

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Keeping Secrets

** 830 163p.

Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kansas 1863

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Haunting

** 820 184p.

Antebellum mansion in the 20^th c

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Dangerous Promise

*** 900 148p.

Civil War in Missouri

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Aggie’s Home

* 600 128p.

Orphan Train children

O’Dell, Scott

Thunder Rolling in the Mountains

** 680 128p.

Chief Joseph, Nimipu tribe

O’Brian, Patrick

Fortune of War

**** 329p.

War of 1812

O’Brien, Tim

Going After Cacciato

*** 301p.

Vietnam War AWOL

O’Brien, Tim

Things They Carried

*** Eng.Dept. 273p.

Vietnam War / ‘70’s

O’Dell, Scott

Serpent Never Sleeps

*** 880 227p.

Jamestown

O’Dell, Scott

Sarah Bishop

** 760 184p.

Revolutionary War

O’Dell, Scott

Streams to the River, River to the Sea

* 740 191p.

Lewis and Clark Expedition

O’Dell, Scott

My Name is not Angelica

** 750 130p.

St. John slave revolt 1733-1734

O’Dell, Scott

Sing Down the Moon

** 820 137p.

Civil War -- Navajo POW’s sent to Ft. Sumner in 1864

Osborne, Mary Pope

My Brother’s Keeper

* 590 109p. 

Civil War -- Battle of Gettysburg

Osborne, Mary Pope

After the Rain

* 600 108p.

Assassination of Pre. Lincoln

Osborne, Mary Pope

My Secret War

** 740 182p.

WWII 1941-1942

Otsuka, Julie

When the Emperor Was Divine

** 810 141p.

WWII Japanese internments

Parker, Robert B.

Gunman’s Rhapsody

** FLP – LP 289p.

1879 Tombstone AZ gunslingers

Perry, Owen

Faded Coat of Blue

**** 338p.

Civil War murder mystery

Paterson, Katherine

Lyddie

** 860 182p.

Lowell, MA mills 1840’s

Paterson, Katherine

Park’s Quest

** 710 148p.

Vietnam War and Vietnam War Memorial

Paulsen, Gary

Call Me Francis Tucket

*** 1050 97p.

Trappers of the Old West

Paulsen, Gary

Mr. Tucket

** 830 166p.

1848 Oregon Trail

Paulsen, Gary

Sarny

** 840 180p.

Freed slaves after the Civil War

Paulsen, Gary

Soldier’s Heart

*** 1000 106p.

Civil War and combat fatigue

Paulsen, Gary

Canyons

** 930 Eng. Dept. 184p.

Late 1800’s Apache Indians

Pearl, Matthew

Dante Club

**** 384p.

1865 Longfellow and Holmes

Peck, Richard

River Between Us

** 740 164p.

Civil War

Peck, Richard

Fair Weather

** 670 130p.

1893 Chicago Exposition

Peck, Richard

Amanda / Miranda

*** 790 460p.

Titanic disaster 1912

Peck, Richard

Long Way from Chicago

** 750 148p.

Great Depression in rural Illinois

Peck, Richard

Year Down Yonder

* 610 130p. 

1937 recession

Perry, Owen

Shadows of Glory

**** 311p.

Civil War murder mystery

Perry, Owen

Call Each River Jordan

**** 321p.

Civil War massacre investigation

Petry, Ann

Tituba of Salem Village

** 840 Fels 254p.

Salem Colony Witches

Poyer, David

Fire on the Waters

**** 445p.

Civil War

Poyer, David

Black Storm

**** 384p.

2002 Iraq War

Price, Eugenia

Maria

**** 352p.

St. Augustine,  Florida before the American Revolution

Pryor, Bonnie

Thomas in Danger

** 720 170p.

Revolutionary War

Pryor, Bonnie

Thomas

** 690 150p.

Revolutionary War

Puzo, Mario

Omerta

*** 316p. 

Mafia vs FBI

Puzo, Mario

Godfather

**** 446p.

Mafia family in 1940’s avenging the death of a son

Randall, Alice

Wind Done Gone

**** 210p.

Civil War and Reconstruction Era

Reeder, Carolyn

Captain Kate

** 920 210p.

C & O Canal

Reeder, Carolyn

Across the Lines

*** 1000 220p.

Civil War – siege of  Petersburg

Reeder, Carolyn

Shades of Gray

** 800 152p.

end of Civil War

Reeder, Carolyn

Foster’s War

*** 940 267p.

WWII

Reich, Christopher

Runner

**** 440p.

Nazi hunters -- post WWII

Reit, Seymour

Guns for General Washington

** 900 98p.

Fort Ticonderoga

Rinaldi, Ann

Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce

** 680 155p.

Mayflower and Plymouth Plantation

Rinaldi, Ann

Broken days

** 550L 273p.

Salem 1811 

Rinaldi, Ann

Fifth of March

** 600L 335p.

Boston Massacre

Rinaldi, Ann

Or Give Me Death

** 530L 226p.

American Revolution, Patrick Henry’s family

Rinaldi, Ann

Secret of Sarah Revere

** 530 320p.

Paul Revere’s ride

Rinaldi, Ann

Cast Two Shadows

** 610L 281p.

1780 Revolutionary War in South Carolina

Rinaldi, Ann

Finishing Becca

** 620L 362p. 

Revolutionary War – Benedict Arnold’s treason

Rinaldi, Ann

Time Enough for Drums

** 680 249p.

Revolutionay War – Trenton, NJ

Rinaldi, Ann

Stitch in Time

* 590 205p.

After Revolution – Northwest Territories

Rinaldi, Ann

Last Silk Dress

** 630L 350p.

Civil War

Rinaldi, Ann

Second Bend in the River

** 540L  279p.

Tecumseh 1798

Rinaldi, Ann

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons

** 560L 336p.

Phyllis Wheatley slave poet

Rinaldi, Ann

Taking Liberty

** 580 272p.

Martha Washington’s slave

Rinaldi, Ann

Wolf  by the Ears

** 580 252p.

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Rinaldi, Ann

Mine Eyes Have Seen

** 780 273p.

1859 Harper’s Ferry

Rinaldi, Ann

Numbering  All the Bones

** 600 170p.

Emancipation

Rinaldi, Ann

Amelia’s War

** 580 265p.

Civil War at Hagerstown, MD

Rinaldi, Ann

Girl in Blue

** 680 310p.

Civil War

Rinaldi, Ann

Sarah’s Ground

** 192p.

Saving Mt. Vernon in the Civil War

Rinaldi, Ann

Love Thy Neighbor

** 188p.

1774 Massachusetts

Rinaldi, Ann

In My Father’s House

** 640 323p.

Civil War

Rinaldi, Ann

Acquaintance with Darkness

** 520 294p.

Assassination of Pres. Lincoln

Rinaldi, Ann

My Heart Is on the Ground

** 700 205p.

1880 -- Sioux Indian

Rinaldi, Ann

Coffin Quilt

** 590 228p.

Hatfield-McCoy feud

Robbins, David L.

End of War

***** 398p.

WWII Yalta Conference

Rostkowski, Margaret I.

After the Dancing Days

** 650 217p.

World War I aftermath

Rylant, Cynthia

I Had Seen Castes

** 950 97p.

World War II

Salisbury, Graham

Under the Blood Red Sun

** 640 246p.

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Saroyan, William

Human Comedy

** 760 Eng. Dept.

World War II

Shaara, Jeff

Rise to Rebellion

***** 492p.

Boston Massacre

Shaara, Jeff

Glorious Cause

***** 512p.

Battle of Trenton, Revolutionary War

Shaara, Jeff

Gone for Soldiers

**** 424p.

Mexican War

Shaara, Jeff

Last Full Measure

***** 560p.

Civil War

Shaara, Jeff

Gods and Generals

***** 498p.

Civil War generals

Shaara, Jeff

To the Last Man

***** 672p.

WWI in 1918

Shaara, Michael

Killer Angels

**** 374p.

Civil War -- Gettysburg

Simmons, Edwin

Dog Company Six

*** 303p.

Korean War

Sinclair, April

Coffee Will Make You Black

*** 239p.

1965 Civil Rights Movement

Sinclair, April

Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice

*** 324p.

1971 Women’s Rights and San Francisco hippies

Sinclair, Upton

Jungle

**** 1170 Fels 342p.

Chicago stockyards and political corruption

Smiley, Jane

All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

**** 452p.

Abolitionism in Kansas

Smith, Betty

Tree Grows in Brooklyn

**** 810 Fels 420p.

1930’s life of  a poor family in New York City

Sontag, Susan

In America

**** 387p.

Polish Utopian commune in California in 1870’s

Soos,Troy

Island of Tears

**** 280p.

1892 Ellis Island  – white slavery

Speare, Elizabeth George

Witch of Blackbird Pond

** 850 249p.

New England colonies -- Witches

Speare, Elizabeth George

Sign of the Beaver

** 770   135p.

18^th c. survival in the woods of Maine

Steel, Danielle

Silent Honor

**** 353p.

World War II

Steinbeck, John

Grapes of Wrath

***** Fels 455p.

Depression

Styron, William

Confessions of Nat Turner

***** Fels 428p.

Slave rebellion 1831 Virginia

Tarkington, Booth

Magnificent Ambersons

**** 248p.

Early days of the automobile

Taylor, Mildred

Let the Circle Be Unbroken

**** 850 Eng. Dept. 394p.

Rural Mississippian racism

Taylor, Mildred

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

*** 920 Fels 276p.

1930’s Southern  racism

Taylor, Mildred D.

Land

*** 760 Fels 375p.

After Civil War -- racism

Trumbo, Dalton

Johnny Got His Gun

*** 970 243p.

World War I anti-war theme

Turner, Ann

Love Thy Neighbor

** 850 188p.

1774 beginning of the American Revolution in Massachusetts

Turtledove, Harry

Guns of the South

***** 516p.

Civil War ‘what if story’

Twain, Mark

Gilded Age

***** 455p.

Post-Civil War era corruption

Uchida Yoshiko

Journey to Topaz

** 970 149p.

Japanese internment in World War II

Van Draanen, Wendelin

Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Moustache Mary

** 720 239p.

Pioneers and family feuds

Vidal, Gore

Golden Age

*****  448p

1939-1954 -- American imperialism

Vonnegut, Kurt

Slaughterhouse Five

**** 850 Eng. Dept. 205p.

World War II

Walker, Margaret

Jubilee

**** 1090 Fels 497p.

Reconstruction

White, Ellen Emerson

Kaiulani

*** 940 238p.

Hawaiian queen 1889-1893

White, Ellen Emerson

Voyage on the Great Titanic

*** 1010 197p.

Titanic disaster 1912

White, Ellen Emerson

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

*** 930 188p.

Vietnam War

White, Ellen Emerson

Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps

*** 900 192p.

Vietnam War

White, Ellen Emerson

Road Home

**** 850 469p.

Vietnam War

Whitehead, Colson

John Henry Days

*** 389p.

African American folkloric hero--  railroad construction

Williams, Barbara

Titanic Crossing

** 690 167p.

Titanic disaster 1912

Woodruff, Elvira

George Washington’s Socks

** 840 166p.

time travel to Revolutionary War

Woodruff, Elvira

Orphan of Ellis Island

** 810 174p.

1908 Italian immigration to America

Wouk, Herman

Caine Mutiny

***** 910L 498p.

World War II

Wright, Richard

Native Son

*** 700L Eng. Dept. 392p.

Racism and criminal justice in 1930’s