Alvarez, Walter

*T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

Armstrong, Jennifer

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: the Extraordinary  True Story of  Shackleton and the Endurance

Atkinson, Linda

 In Kindling Flame:  The Story of Hannah Senesh

Barrett, S.M.

Geronimo

Sheehan, Neil

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Berg, A. Scott

Lindberg

Bernstein, Carl and Bob Woodward

All the President’s Men

Vidal, Gore

Lincoln

Vidal, Gore

1876

Bolt, Robert

 Man for All Seasons

Brown, Dee

*Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Capote, Truman

 In Cold Blood

Carroll, James

An  American Requiem

Carter, Jimmy

Talking Peace

Chang, Iris

*Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Churchill, Winston

The  Second World War

Cook, Blanche Wiesen

Eleanor

Day, David

*The Search for King Arthur

Douglass, Frederick

*Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

DuBois, W.E.B.

The Souls of Black Folk

Einstein, Albert

*Ideas and Opinions

Ellis, Joseph

American Sphinx: the Character of Thomas Jefferson

Erickson, Carrolly

 All titles

Feynman, Richard P.

 Six Easy Pieces : Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Professor

Filipovic, Zlata

Zlata's Diary: a Child’s Life in Serajevo

Foote, Allan D.

Liberty March: the Battle of Oriskany

Foote, Shelby

*The Civil War

Freidan, Betty

The Feminine Mystique

Friedman, Ina R.

 Other Victims:  First Person Stories of Non- Jews Persecuted by the Nazis

Goldhagen, Daniel

*Hitler's Willing Executioners

Guthrie, Woody

Bound for Glory

Halberstam, David

The Fifties

Halberstam, David

The Best and the Brightest

Haley, Alex and Malcolm X

*Autobiography of Malcolm X

Hammond, Allen

 A Passion to Know:  Twenty Profiles in Science

Hautzig, Esther

*Endless Steppe

Hayes, Eileen

 Children of the Swastika: The Hitler Youth

Hayslip, Le Ly

 When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

Hersey, John

*Hiroshima / A Bell for Adano

Kavic, Ron

Born on the Fourth of July

Keneally, Thomas

*Schindler's  List

King, Jr., Martin Luther

*Why We Can't Wait

Lewis, David L.

W.E.B. DuBois

Lincoln, W. Bruce

*In War's Dark Shadow: the Russians Before the Great War

Lord, Walter

 A Night to Remember

Maier, Pauline

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

Marshall, Kathryn

 In the Combat Zone

Massie, Robert

*Nicholas and Alexandra

Mattingly, Garrett

 The Armada

McCullock, David

Truman

Morris, Edmund

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Peck, James

Freedom Ride

Powledge, Fred

Free at Last

Remnick, David

King of the World

Rowan, Carl T.

Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: the World of Justice Thurgood Marshall

Sandburg, Carl

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years/ The War Years

Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur

Robert Kennedy and His Time

Sim, Kevin

 Women at War

Sinclair, Upton

The Jungle

Smith, Cecil Woodham

 Florence Nightingale

Sone, Monica Itoi

 Nisei Daughter

Spiegelman, Art

*Maus: A Survivor's Tale / Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began

Stone, Irving

 Clarence Darrow for the Defense

Strachey, Lytton

*Eminent Victorians

ten Boom, Corrie

 The Hiding Place

Timmerman, Jacob

 Prisoner Without a Name; Cell Without a Number

Tuchman, Barbara

*All titles, especially:

A Distant Mirror

TheGuns of August

Volavkova, Hana, ed.

 I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Warren, Robert Penn

 All the King's Men

Washington, Booker T.

*Up From Slavery

Watson, James D.

*The Double Helix; A Personal Account of the Discovery of DNA

Wills, Gary

Lincoln at Gettysburg

Wolfe, Tom

 The Right Stuff

Woodward, C. Vann

 Strange Career of Jim Crow