The best books on the Donner Party include The Best Land Under Heaven, The Indifferent Stars Above, Ordeal by Hunger, Desperate Passage, Unfortunate Emigrants and The Hunger.
The best books on the Mayflower and the Pilgrims include Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick, Of Plymouth Plantation, Making Haste from Babylon, This Land Is Their Land, Our Beloved Kin and 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving.
The best books on the Great Migration include The Warmth of Other Suns, The Promised Land by Nicholas Lemann, Land of Hope, Twelve Million Black Voices, Jazz and The Great Migration by Jacob Lawrence.
The best books on the Tulsa Race Massacre include Built from the Fire, The Burning, Death in a Promised Land, The Ground Breaking, Unspeakable and Dreamland Burning.
The best books on the Montgomery bus boycott include Stride Toward Freedom, Rosa Parks: My Story, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Freedom Walkers and Rosa by Nikki Giovanni.
The best books on the Little Rock Nine include Warriors Don’t Cry, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, A Mighty Long Way, Elizabeth and Hazel, Turn Away Thy Son and The Lions of Little Rock.
The best books on the Manhattan Project include The Making of the Atomic Bomb, American Prometheus, The Girls of Atomic City, Bomb by Steve Sheinkin, 109 East Palace and Now It Can Be Told.
The best books on Hiroshima and Nagasaki include Hiroshima by John Hersey, Nagasaki by Susan Southard, Countdown 1945, Hiroshima Diary, Black Rain and Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.
The best books on the 1918 Spanish flu include The Great Influenza, Pale Rider, Flu by Gina Kolata, America’s Forgotten Pandemic, The Pull of the Stars and The Last Town on Earth.
The best books on the American Mafia include Five Families, Wiseguy, Donnie Brasco, Honor Thy Father, The Valachi Papers and The Godfather.