Thought of some of you might be interested in this list; many of these supplement the units of study in my classes, as well as other levels of the Core Knowledge sequence; please bear in mind that I have not yet read any of these...
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#1) The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
#2) Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
by S. C. Gwynne
#3) Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
by Ben Macintyre
#4) Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated
by Abraham Lincoln
#5) Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
by Lynne Olson
#6) The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
by Nathaniel Philbrick
#7) Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
by Hampton Sides
#8) Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
by Daniel Okrent
#9) The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
#10) The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America by Geoffrey O'Brien
