Don’t Know Much about History
try reading Historical Fiction |
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 | Achebe, Chinua |
| Things Fall Apart |
| Friction grows between between village leaders and Europeans determined to save the heathen souls of Africa. |
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 | Bahr, Howard |
| The Black Flower : a novel of the Civil War |
A young Confederate rifleman is wounded and taken to a makeshift Union hospital where he comes under the care of a Anna.
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 | Bahr, Howard |
| The Judas Field : a novel of the Civil War |
| Burdened by battlefield memories, Cass Wakefield is given with a chance to retrace his steps from the past and face the truths that have haunted him. |
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 | Berger, Thomas |
| Little Big Man : a novel |
An elderly white man tells about his life as an adopted Cheyenne when he was a scout, gunfighter, buffalo hunter, and survivor of Custer’s last stand.
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 | Cather, Willa |
| My Ántonia |
| Nebraska prairie life is touchingly commemorated by the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers who settled the land. |
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 | Eco, Umberto |
| The Name of the Rose |
| Brother William of Bakersville arrives to investigate Franciscan monks suspected of heresy in 1327 Italy. |
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 | Foote, Shelby |
| Shiloh : a novel |
The day’s events at the Battle of Shiloh are shown from the perspectives of five officers and men from a single squad.
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 | Fowles, John |
| The French Lieutenant’s Woman |
Charles Smithson is engaged to the wealthy but shallow Ernestina while independent Sarah Woodruff, ostracized for her affair with a French sailor, fascinates him.
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 | Frazier, Charles |
| Thirteen Moons : a novel |
From the age of twelve, when he is sent alone into the wilderness to run an Indian trading post, Will’s life becomes intertwined with the destiny of the Cherokee Indians.
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 | Kantor, MacKinlay |
| Andersonville |
| A senile general administering Andersonville Prison in Georgia during the Civil War allows many Union soldiers to suffer from exposure, disease, and starvation. |
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 | McMurtry, Larry |
| Lonesome Dove : a novel |
| Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana -- and much more. |
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 | Renault, Mary |
| The Bull from the Sea |
| Theseus, king of Athens, begins his triumphant return from Crete after slaying the Minotaur. |
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 | Russell, Mary Doria |
| A Thread of Grace : a novel |
| When Italy breaks with Germany in 1943 and pulls out of southern France, thousands of Jewish refugees cross the mountains in search of safety. |
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 | Shaara, Michaelv |
| The Killer Angels : a novel |
| When the largest gatherings of both the Union and Confederate armies meet by chance at Gettysburg, a battle follows that neither army wants at that time and place. |
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 | Stephenson, Neal |
| Quicksilver |
| As the bubonic plague sweeps through London in 1666 and religious fanatics predict the imminent Apocalypse, young Daniel Waterhouse, son of a dissident preacher, rejects the world of faith for the unexplored territory of natural philosophy. |
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 | Styron, William |
| The Confessions of Nat Turner |
In the late summer of 1831, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery.
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 | Tademy, Lalita |
| Cane River |
Early 19th century Louisiana is the site for an amazing chronicle of four generations of black women.
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 | Thom, James Alexander |
| Follow the River |
| After being captured in an Indian raid during 1755, Mary Draper Ingles follows the Ohio River for 1,000 miles to return home to Virginia by herself. |
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 | Vidal, Gore |
| Lincoln : a novel |
| As the Civil War ravages his nation, Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections. |
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