Dragon's Gate
by Laurence Yep
(1867)

Firehorse
by Diane Lee Wilson
(1872)

Soldier Boy
by Brian Burks
(1876)

Col George A. Custer was defeated in the Sioux Indian War, at the
Battle of the Little Big Horn, Montana. Colorado was admitted to the Union.

National League founded (baseball).

Alexander Graham Bell patents the Telephone.

All the Buffalo Returning
by Dorothy M. Johnson
(1876)

A Little Bit Dead
by Chap Reaver
(1876)

Thomas Edison invents incandescent light.

Worth
by A. LaFaye
(1881)

My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher
by Jim Murphy
(1881)

Rodzina
by Karen Cushman
(1881)

Grover Cleveland took office as President.

The Copper Lady
by Alice & Kent Ross
(1886)

Run Away Home
by Patricia C. McKissack
(1886)

Geronimo (Apache) surrenders after 15 years.

Haymarket Square labor riot in Chicago kills elleven people.

Walk Across the Sea
by Susan Fletcher
(1886)

Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
by Sarah Miller
(1887)

Kaiulani: The People's Princess
by Ellen Emerson White
(1889)

Benjamin Harrison took office as President.

North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and
Washington were admitted to the Union.

I Have Heard of a Land
by Joyce Carol Thomas
(1889)

Radical Red
by James Duffy
(1890)

Sherman Antitrust Act

The Battle of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, was the last major conflict between Indian (Souix) and US troops.

Idaho and Wyoming were admitted to the Union.

Grover Cleveland was re-elected to the presidency.

Strike at Carnegie Steel results in ten deaths.

Mfinuk: Ashes in the Pathway
by Kirkpatrick Hill
(1892)

A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
(1896)

The Klondike Gold Rush

The Supreme Court approved racial segregation under the `separate but equal' doctrine.

William McKinley was elected to the presidency.

Utah was admitted to the Union.

Spanish-American War: The US defeats Spain, gains control of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.

The Bite of the Gold Bug: A Story of the Alaskan Gold Rush
by Barthe DeClements
(1898)

Theodore Roosevelt: Letters From a Young Coal Miner
by Jennifer Armstrong
(1901)

President McKinley was shot in September and died eight days later; he was succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.

Hannah's Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl
by Marissa Moss
(1901)

Dragonwings
by Laurence Yep
(1903)

The United States begins digging the Panama Canal. The canal opens in 1914, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The Wright Brothers make their first flight.

Brooklyn Bridge
by Karen Hesse
(1903)

Oklahoma was admitted to the Union.

The Orphan of Ellis Island by Elvira Woodruff
(1908)

Gib Rides Home
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
(1908)

Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, priced at $850.

William H. Taft is elected as President.

Bread and Roses, Too
by Katherine Paterson
(1912)

Woodrow Wilson was elected to the presidency.

New Mexico and Arizona were admitted to the Union.

Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
by Ellen Emerson White
(1912)

The United States joins World War I August 3, 1914 on the side of the Allies against Germany.

The US declared war on Germany on April 6th.

A Long Way to Go
by Zibby Oneal
(1917)

A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen by Kathryn Lasky
(1917)

The Night Flyers
by Elizabeth McDavid Jones
(1918)

Over 1m. US troops were in Europe by July; the `Great War' ended with the surrender of Germany in November.

Black Duck
by Janet Taylor Lisle
(1929)

Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists by Tonya Bolden

Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North by Patricia C. McKissack
(1919)

The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage by Walter Dean Myers
(1919)

Great Migration of African-Americans north and west.

The Prohibition of alcoholic beverages was introduced in the 18th Amendment to the Constitustion.

The Harlem Renaissance (also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and the New Negro Movement) refers to the flowering of African-American cultural and intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s.

Shoeless Joe & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure
by Dan Gutman
(1919)

American Too
by Elisa Bartone
(1920)

Tree by Leaf
by Cynthia Voigt
(1920)

Warren G. Harding was elected to the presidency.

Women received the right to vote under the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

Bridge to America: Based on a True Story
by Linda Glaser
(1920)

Tulsa Burning
by Anna Myers
(1921)

The national quota system was introduced to
restrict immigration.

White Lilacs
by Carolyn Meyer
(1921)

Witness
by Karen Hesse
(1924)

President Harding died and was replaced by Calvin Coolidge.

Treasures in the Dust
by Tracey Porter

The Babe & I
by David A. Adler
(1929)

Tree of Hope
by Amy Littlesugar
(1929)

Stompin' at the Savoy: the story of Norma Miller
by Norma Miller, Alan B. Govenar
(1924)

The "Stock Market Crash" marked the beginning of the Great Depression, an economic recession which lasted for most of the 1930.

The Amazing Thinking Machine
by Dennis Haseley
(1929)

A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
by Richard Peck
(1929)

Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
(1929)

Esperanza Rising
by Pam Muaoz Ryan

A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt by C. Coco De Young
(1933)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office and appointed the first woman to the cabinet; he was the first Democratic President since Wilson.

Isolationst polict was confirmed by the US, declaring that they would not become involved in affairs of the nations of the western hemisphere.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal increases government help to people hurt by the Depression.

The Green Glass Sea
By Ellen Klages
(1939)

Yellow Star
by Jennifer Rozines Roy
(1939)

Darkness
by Anne E. Schraff
(1939)

Elephant Run
by Roland Smith
(1941)

Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
by Andrea Warren
(1941)

Thin Wood Walls
by David Patneaude
(1941)

The US entered the Second World War following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii December 7, 1941.

Briar Rose
by Jane Yolen
(1941)

Blizzard's Wake
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
(1941)

Under the Blood-Red Sun
by Graham Salisbury
(1941) 

The Art of Keeping Cool
by Janet Taylor Lisle
(1942)

The Boy Who Dared
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
(1942)

Aleutian sparrow
by Karen Hesse
(1942)

The US and its Allies invaded Italy in September.

US and Allied forces invaded northern Europe in June; US forces landed in the Philippines in October.

The explosion of the first atomic bomb took place in July at Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of
Hiroshima (August 6th) and Nagasaki (August 9th)

Japan surrendered on August 15th; US forces moved into Korea, replacing the Japanese, in September.

President Roosevelt died in April, having won an unprecedented fourth term of office in the election of the previous year; he was succeeded by Harry S Truman.

US forces landed on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Japan, in February and April, respectively.

War with Germany ended on May 7th.

Jackie & Me
by Dan Gutman
(1947)

Jackie Robinson becomes the first black baseball player in the major leagues when he joins the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues
by Walter Dean Myers
(1948)

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created, committing the USA to the defence of Western Europe.

Art Movement Abstract Expressionism breaks out in New York City.

The Education of Robert Nifkin
by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
(1950)

Kira-Kira
by Cynthia Kadohata
(1950)

The USA answered a UN request for peace-keeping troops to be sent to Korea after the Communist regime of the North invaded the South.

Dwight D. Eisenhower assumed the presidency for the Republicans. The Korean conflict was declared to be over.

The Supreme Court ruled, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka , that `separate educational facilities are inherently unequal' and, therefore, that the `separate but equal' doctrine was in violation of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
(1955)

The USA began to provide military-adviser assistance to the South Vietnamese army, to help it against the Communist regime in the North of Viet Nam.

Jericho Walls
by Kristi Collier
(1957)

What I Know Now
by Rodger Larson
(1957)

Explorer 1, the first US earth satellite, was launched.

Circle of Fire
by Evelyn Coleman
(1958)

Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the Union, as the 49th and 50th states.

Escape to West Berlin
by Maurine F. Dahlberg
(1961)

John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, became President.

Civil Rights Movement.

Belle Teal
by Ann M. Martin
(1961)

Freedom Riders
by Ann Bausum
(1960)

Art movement Pop Art sweeps New York.

The Cuban Missile Crisis abated when the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, agreed to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba, following a US naval blockade of the island.

On November 22, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, and was succeeded by Lyndon B. Johnson.

A Million Shades of Gray by Cynthia Kadohata

The Civil Rights Act banned discrimination in places of public accommodation and in employment.

The Tonkin Resolution of Congress authorized presidential action in Viet Nam following reports of a North Vietnamese attack on two US destroyers.

Sky
by Pamela Porter
(1963)

The United States sends large numbers of soldiers to fight in the Vietnam War.

President Johnson ordered bombing raids on North Vietnam.

The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps  by Ellen Emerson White (1968)

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis.

Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles.

The US public's perception of the physical and financial costs of war in Viet Nam prompted President Johnson to propose cease-fire negotiations (at this time more than 500,000 US troops were in Viet Nam); the policy of Vietnamization was announced, by which the South Vietnamese would gradually assume the entire fighting role.

Free Radical
by Claire Rudolf Murphy
(1969)

Search and Destroy
by Dean Hughes
(1969)

Letters from Wolfie
by Patti Sherlock
(1969)

Richard Nixon, a Republican, became President.

US forces began the withdrawal from Viet Nam.

Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on to the Moon.

Beacon Hill Boys
by Ken Mochizuki
(1972)

The Road Home
by Ellen Emerson White (1973)

Shooting the Moon
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
(1973)

US participation in the Vietnam War ends.

President Richard Nixon resigns because of the Watergate scandal.

U.S. hostages are taken in Iran, beginning a 444-day crisis that ends with their release in 1981.

Nobody was Here
by Alison Pollet
(1981)

Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.

New plague identifited as AIDS.

Personal computers introduced by IBM.

Bill Clinton is elected president.

Internet expands with World Wide Web.

George W. Bush narrowly defeats Al Gore in a hotly fought battle for the presidency. The race is finally settled by the U.S. Supreme Court in December.

Armageddon Summer
by Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville
(2000)

The PATRIOTAct put into place.

Hijacked jets crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, September 11, killing about 3,000 people.