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The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
Imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America: Mustafa al-Zamori, called Estebanico. The slave of a Spanish conquistador, Estebanico sails for the Americas with his master, Dorantes, as part of a danger-laden expedition to Florida -
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
Set in the 1740’s just as the French and Indian wars have begun -
A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett, Leona Nevler
Scottland to Virginia -
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Revolutionary War Boston -
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Revolutionary War
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Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
Revolutionary War -
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, Lori Earley
Philadelphia Fever -
Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
Haiti and New Orleans -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
Mississippi River town Pre Civil War -
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Doc Holiday's life -
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Generally Irish Catholic orphaned children sent West for "adoption" -
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid TV Series - An epic romantic adventure based on the life of Billy the Kid, from his humble Irish roots and his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond. -
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
Civil War, Missouri -
March by Geraldine Brooks
Civil War Union Soldier -
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
North Carolina -
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era -
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
White women sent as wives to marry Cheyenne Indians in Minnesota. -
Billy the Kid: A Novel by Theodore Taylor
Wild West -
Born to the Badge by Mark Warren
Wild West -
The Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman
Texas Mexico border -
White Fang by Jack London
Klondike gold Rush -
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Klondike gold rush -
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
New York City -
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Southern American Sharecropper -
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World War I
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Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Frontier West -
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) by Ken Follett
The First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage -
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Homesteading Montana -
The Miner's Daughter by Gretchen Moran Laskas
Coal mining life -
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2) by Ken Follett
The rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, the Spanish Civil War, and into the beginning of the long Cold War. -
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Spanich Civil War
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World War II
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42 (Movie)
Jackie Robinson, integration of baseball, Brooklyn Dodgers -
The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis by Elizabeth Letts
WWII Lipizzaner horses were rescued from the Germans -
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound -
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Civil Rights Movement
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Vietnam War
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Lunch-Box Dream by Tony Abbott
Civil Rights -
Green Book
'Doc' Don Shirley famous musician travels to the deep South with Tony Vallelonga. -
I Have a Dream Written by Martin Luther King, Jr., Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
I have a dream speech. Civil Rights -
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy #3) by Ken Follett
The 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll. -
Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata
Vietnam War -
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War in Afghanistan
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Max: Best Friend. Hero. Marine. by Jennifer Li Shotz, Boaz Yakin, Sheldon Lettich
Afghan War, America -
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Iraq War
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Megan Leavey
Iraq War Film
