Essential events

Author

Gitlin, Marty Stockland, Patricia M Ouellette, Jeannine Higgins, Nadia O'Neill, Joseph R Vander Hook, Sue Magoon, Kekla Pederson, Charles E Sherman, Jill Farrell, Courtney Grayson, Robert Cunningham, Kevin Lusted, Marcia Amidon Morgan, Kayla Lies, Anne Johnson, Kristin Dolezalek, Holly Reece, Richard Hamen, Susan E Gimpel, Diane Anderson, Jennifer Joline Gimpel, Diane Marczely Johnson, Kristin F Cates, David Houser, Aimee Felix, Rebecca Watson, Stephanie Zuchora-Walske, Christine Owings, Lisa Rissman, Rebecca Gillam, Scott

1) The 1929 Stock Market Crash

Author

Gitlin, Marty

2) The assassination of John F. Kennedy

Author

Stockland, Patricia M.

3) Brown v. the Board of Education

Author

Gitlin, Marty

4) Hurricane Katrina

Author

Ouellette, Jeannine

5) Moon landing

Author

Higgins, Nadia

6) The Bolshevik Revolution

Author

O'Neill, Joseph R

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

7) The Dust Bowl

Author

Vander Hook, Sue

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

8) The Great Wall of China

Author

O'Neill, Joseph R

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

9) The Zebulon Pike expedition

Author

Magoon, Kekla

10) Building the Panama Canal

Author

Vander Hook, Sue

11) The French & Indian War

Author

Pederson, Charles E.

12) The Hindenburg disaster

Author

Sherman, Jill

13) Terror at the Munich Olympics

Author

Farrell, Courtney

14) Trail of Tears

Author

Vander Hook, Sue

15) The United States enters World War I

Author

Vander Hook, Sue

16) The Amistad

Author

Grayson, Robert

17) The bubonic plague

Author

Cunningham, Kevin

18) The Chernobyl Disaster

Author

Lusted, Marcia Amidon

19) The Cold War

Author

Morgan, Kayla

20) The earthquake in Haiti

Author

Lies, Anne

21) The Endurance expedition

Author

Johnson, Kristin

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2011]

Language

English

22) The global financial crisis

Author

Dolezalek, Holly

23) The Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Author

Farrell, Courtney

24) The Holocaust

Author

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2011]

Language

English

Description

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An examination of the Holocaust from its inception to the liberation of the concentration camps and the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere.

25) The Korean War

Author

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2011]

Language

English

26) The Manhattan Project

Author

Vander Hook, Sue

27) The New Deal

Author

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2011]

Language

English

28) The transcontinental railroad

Author

Gimpel, Diane

29) The 2011 Japan disasters

Author

Lusted, Marcia Amidon

30) Bleeding Kansas

Author

Reece, Richard

31) California's Gold Rush

Author

Grayson, Robert

32) The capture and killing of Osama bin Laden

Author

Lusted, Marcia Amidon

33) The Chilean miners' rescue

Author

Lusted, Marcia Amidon

34) The civil rights movement

Author

Anderson, Jennifer Joline

35) The Columbine shootings

Author

Gimpel, Diane Marczely

36) The Hudson plane landing

Author

Gitlin, Marty

37) The Oregon Trail

Author

Lusted, Marcia Amidon

38) The orphan trains

Author

Johnson, Kristin F.

39) The Scottsboro boys

Author

Cates, David

40) The Three Mile Island nuclear disaster

Author

Lusted, Marcia Amidon

41) Tragedy in Tucson: the Arizona shooting rampage

Author

Houser, Aimee

42) The 1964 freedom summer

Author

Felix, Rebecca

43) The 2013 Oklahoma City tornadoes

Author

Watson, Stephanie

44) The Berlin Wall

Author

Zuchora-Walske, Christine

45) D-Day: the Normandy invasion

Author

Lusted, Marcia Amidon

46) The Newtown school shooting

Author

Owings, Lisa

47) Rodney King and the L.A. riots

Author

Rissman, Rebecca

48) The Waco standoff

Author

Gillam, Scott