What a Difference a Year Makes

Robert Lacey and Danny Danzinger.  The year 1000 : what life was like at the turn of the first millennium : an Englishman's world   942.01 LAC

Gavin Menzies.  1421 : the year China discovered America .  910.41 MEN

Charles C. Mann. 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus  970.01 MAN

James Shapiro.  A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599    921 SHAKESPEARE

John E. Wills.  1688 : a global history    909.6 WIL

David McCullough. 1776    973.3 MCC

Walter R. Borneman.  1812 : the war that forged a nation   973.52 BOR

Jay Winik.  April 1865 : the month that saved America    973.738 WIN

David Traxel. 1898 : year one of the American century   973.89 TRA

James Chace. 1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs-- the election that changed the country  324.9730912 CHA

Gregor Dallas. 1918 : war and peace   940.439 DAL

Margaret MacMillan. Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world    940.3141 MAC

Gregor Dallas. 1945 : The War That Never Ended  940.532 DAL

Mark Kurlansky. 1968 : the year that rocked the world  909.826 KUR

Andreas Killen. 1973 nervous breakdown : Watergate, Warhol, and the birth of post-sixties America   973.924 KIL

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