The best books on the Rwandan genocide include We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, Shake Hands with the Devil, Machete Season, Leave None to Tell the Story, A Problem from Hell and The Girl Who Smiled Beads.

The best books on apartheid include Long Walk to Freedom, Born a Crime, Cry, the Beloved Country, Country of My Skull, My Traitor’s Heart and July’s People.

The best books on the Berlin Wall include The Berlin Wall by Frederick Taylor, Berlin 1961, The Collapse, Stasiland, The Tunnels and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

The best books on Chernobyl include Midnight in Chernobyl, Voices from Chernobyl, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe, Manual for Survival, The Truth About Chernobyl and Wolves Eat Dogs.

The best books on the Stonewall riots include Stonewall by David Carter, Stonewall by Martin Duberman, The Stonewall Reader, The Gay Revolution, Gay New York and Making Gay History.

The best books on Martin Luther King Jr. include King: A Life, Bearing the Cross, Parting the Waters, Why We Can’t Wait, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Martin’s Big Words.

The best books on Malcolm X include The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, The Dead Are Arising, Malcolm X Speaks, The Sword and the Shield and X: A Novel.

The best books on Jim Crow include The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Warmth of Other Suns, Slavery by Another Name, The New Jim Crow, Stony the Road and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

The best books on Reconstruction include Reconstruction by Eric Foner, The Second Founding, Black Reconstruction in America, Stamped from the Beginning, The Day Freedom Died and Forever Free.

The best books on the American Civil War include Battle Cry of Freedom, The Civil War: A Narrative, This Republic of Suffering, Killer Angels, Grant by Ron Chernow and The Red Badge of Courage.