The best books on the Oregon Trail include The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey, The Plains Across and The Way West.
The best books on Lewis and Clark include Undaunted Courage, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Lewis and Clark Among the Indians, In Search of York and How We Crossed the West.
The best books on the Titanic include A Night to Remember, The Discovery of the Titanic, The Loss of the S.S. Titanic, Titanic: Voices from the Disaster, Unsinkable and How to Survive the Titanic.
The best books on the Holocaust include Night, The Diary of a Young Girl, Man’s Search for Meaning, Maus, Survival in Auschwitz and The Boy on the Wooden Box.
The best books on World War II include The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Second World War by Antony Beevor, Band of Brothers, Unbroken, The Splendid and the Vile and All the Light We Cannot See.
The best books on World War I include The Guns of August, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Sleepwalkers, A World Undone, Testament of Youth and Dead Wake.
The best books on the Korean War include The Coldest Winter, This Kind of War, The Korean War: A History, The Forgotten War, The Last Stand of Fox Company and On Desperate Ground.
The best books on the Vietnam War include A Bright Shining Lie, Vietnam: A History, Dispatches, The Things They Carried, We Were Soldiers Once… and Young and The Sympathizer.
The best books on the Cold War include The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis, Iron Curtain, One Minute to Midnight, The Spy and the Traitor, The Dead Hand and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
The best books on the French Revolution include Citizens, The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, A Tale of Two Cities, Marie Antoinette, Twelve Who Ruled and A Place of Greater Safety.