Some years are just so momentous that they deserve a whole book to themselves. These books all look at one year and the events that made it noteworthy.
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69 A.D. : the year of four emperors /
Morgan, Gwyn, 1937-
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1215 : the year of Magna Carta /
Danziger, Danny.
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1421 : the year China discovered America /
Menzies, Gavin.
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1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus /
Mann, Charles C.
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1776 /
McCullough, David G.
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The summer of 1787 : the men who invented the constitution /
Stewart, David O.
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A magnificent catastrophe : the tumultuous election of 1800 : America's first presidential campaign
Larson, Edward J.
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1816 : America rising /
Skeen, Carl Edward.
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1831, year of eclipse /
Masur, Louis P.
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1846 : portrait of the nation /
Christman, Margaret C. S.
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1863 : the rebirth of a nation /
Stevens, Joseph E. 1956-
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1898 : the birth of the American century /
Traxel, David.
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America 1900 : the turning point /
Crichton, Judy.
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Crazy '08 : how a cast of cranks, rogues, boneheads, and magnates created the greatest year in baseb
Murphy, Cait, 1961-
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1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs-- the election that changed the country /
Chace, James.
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1920 : the year of the six presidents /
Pietrusza, David, 1949-
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1927 : high tide of the twenties /
Leinwand, Gerald.
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1939 : the alliance that never was and the coming of World War II /
Carley, Michael Jabara, 1945-
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1968 : the year that rocked the world /
Kurlansky, Mark.
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