Note: This is a work-in-progress and the list is by no means complete.
Please contact me with suggested additions and topics.

Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush

Down the Yukon and Jason's Gold (novels - Will Hobbs)

Children of the Gold Rush, Gold Rush Women (NF - Claire Rudolf Murphy)

Gold Rush Winter (easy reader - Claire Rudolf Murphy)

Alaska Serum Run/Balto

The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail (NF PB - Debbie Miller)

The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto (Natalie Standiford/Donald Cook)

Balto and the Great Race (Elizabeth Cody Kimmel/Nora Koerber)

Togo (PB - Robert J. Blake)

Gold Rush Dogs (NF - Claire Rudolf Murphy)

Alcatraz:

Al Capone Does My Shirts (novel - Gennifer Choldenko)

Someone's Hiding On Alcatraz (novel - Eve Bunting)

Children of Alcatraz: Growing Up on the Rock (NF - Claire Rudolf Murphy)

Chicago World's Fair 1893

Fair Weather (novel – Richard Peck)

The Devil in the White City (adult NF - Erik Larson)

Civil Rights - 1960's

Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963 (novel - Christopher Paul Curtis)

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (novel - Mildred D. Taylor)

Birmingham 1963 (NF - Carole Weatherford)

Fanny Lou Hamer and the Fight For the Vote (NF - Penny Colman)

Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement (NF - Ann Bausum)

Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (NF - Russell Freedman)

EMMETT TILL

Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case (NF - Chris Crowe)

Mississippi Trial, 1955 (novel - Chris Crowe)

A Wreath for Emmett Till (poetry - Marilyn Nelson)

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (documentary)

The Murder of Emmett Till (documentary)

Cryptid Hunters

Cryptid Hunters (Roland Smith - novel)

Tales of the Cryptids (older NF - Kelly Milner-Halls)

Depression/Dust Bowl

Children of the Great Depression (NF - Russell Freedman)

Out of the Dust (novel - Karen Hesse)

The Worst Hard Time (adult NF - Tim Egan)

Helen Keller

Helen Keller: Her Life in Pictures (NF - George Sullivan)

Miss Spitfire: Reaching Miss Keller (novel - Sarah Miller)

Holocaust/Anne Frank

Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance (NF - Ruud Van Der Rol)

Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust (NF - Carol Ann Lee)

A Friend Called Anne (NF - Jacqueline van Maarsen/Carol Ann Lee)

Hitler Youth (NF - Susan Campbell Bartoletti)

Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps (NF - Andrea Warren)

Behind the Bedroom Wall (novel - Laura E. Williams)

Emil and Karl (reissued 1940 novel)

Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen (PB -Luba Tryszysnska-Frederick)

Irish Immigration

Black Potatoes (NF - Susan Campbell Bartoletti)

Ashes of Roses (novel - Mary Jane Auch)

Nory Ryan's Song (novel- Patricia Reilly Giff)

Japanese Internment

When Baseball Saved Us (PB- Ken Mochizuki/Dom Lee)

Where Have the Sunflowers Gone? (PB)

The Children of Topaz: The story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp ( NF - Michael O. Tunnell)

Dear Miss Breed (NF - Joanne Oppenheim)

My Friend, the Enemy (novel - J.B. Cheaney)

Weed flower (novel - Cynthia Kadohata)

When the Emperor Was Divine (adult novel - Julie Otsuka)

Labor Mills

Up Before Daybreak (NF - Deborah Hopkinson)

Lyddie (novel - Katherine Paterson

SEE ALSO TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Across America, The Story of Lewis and Clark (NF - Jacqueline Morley/David Antram)

The Truth About Sacajawea (NF - Kenneth Thomasma)

I Am Sacajawea, I Am York: Our Journey West With Lewis and Clark (PB - Claire Rudolf Murphy)

Streams to the River, River to the Sea (novel - Scott O'Dell)

Sacajawea (novel - Joseph Bruchau)

My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark (novel - Kate McMullan)

Medieval Era

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village (novel/NF -Laura Amy Schlitz/Robert Byrd)

Crispin (novel - Avi)

Middle East

One City, Two Brothers (PB - Chris Smith/Aurélia Fronty)

19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (Naomi Shihab Nye)

Anahita's Woven Riddle (YA novel - Meghan Nuttall Sayres)

Habibi (novel - Naomi Shihab Nye)

Parade of Shadows (YA novel - Gloria Whelan)

NEED NF suggestions

Mining

Fire in the Hole! (novel - Mary Cronk Farrell)

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

The Monongah Mining District (NF - Jason Skog)

Growing up in Coal Country (NF - Susan Campbell Bartoletti)

Orphan Train

Orphan Train Rider:One Boy's True Story (NF - Andrea Warren)

We Rode the Orphan Trains (NF- Andrea Warren)

Train to Somewhere (PB - Eve Bunting/Ronald Himler)

Worth (novel - A. LaFaye)

Orphan Train series (novels - Joan Lowery Nixon)

Pale Male These 2007 picture books are all nonfiction, but offer a terrific way to show how similar material can be covered in a variety of styles.

City Hawk: The Story of Pale Male (Meghan McCarthy)

Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City (Janet Schulman)

The Tale of Pale Male: a True Story (Jeanette Winter)

Pale Male [DVD - PBS)

Red-Tailed Hawks (NF - Doug Wechsler)

Plagues

An American Plague (NF - Jim Murphy)

Fever (novel - Laurie Halse Andersen)

Shackleton

Endurance: The True Story of the Shackleton Expedition to the Antarctic (NF PB Jennifer Armstrong/William Maughan)

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World (NF - Jennifer Armstrong)

Trial by Ice: A Photobiography of Sir Ernest Shackleton (NF - K.M. Kostyal)

Ice Wreck (NF easy reader - Lucille Recht Penner/David LaFleur)

Trapped by the Ice! (NF easy reader - Michael McCurdy)

Shackleton (documentary film)

Shackleton's Stowaway (YA novel - Victoria McKernan)

Slavery

5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight from Slavery (NF - Dennis Fradin)

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (PB - Carole Weatherford/Kadir Nelson)

Freedom Ship (PB - Doreen Rappaport)

Snowflake Bentley

Snowflake Bentley (NF PB - Jacqueline Briggs Martin/Mary Azarian)

Snowflakes in Photographs (NF - W. A. Bentley)

My Brother Loved Snowflakes: The Story of Wilson a Bentley, the Snowflake Man (PB - Mary Bahr Fritts/Laura Jacobsen)

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Ashes of Roses (novel - Mary Jane Auch)

Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, A shirtwaist worker (novel - Deborah Hopkinson)

Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924 (NF - Deborah Hopkinson)

Vietnam War

A Place Called Heartbreak: a Story of Vietnam (NF - Walter Dean Myers/Frederick Porter)

Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy (NF - Andrea Warren)

Fallen Angels (novel - Walter Dean Myers)

Free Radical (novel - Claire Rudolf Murphy)

Park's Quest (novel - Katherine Paterson)

Women's Suffrage

Of Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right To Vote (NF - Ann Bausum)

America in the Time of Susan B. Anthony (NF)

We the People: The 19th Amendment (NF - Michael Burgan)

Susan B., Mama and Me (PB - Claire Rudolf Murphy, 2009)

I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote (PB - Linda Arms White)

Mama Went To Jail for the Vote (PB - Kathleen Karr/Malene Laugesen)

Iron-Jawed Angels (DVD - HBO Films)

You Come to Yokum (MG novel - Carol Otis Hurst/Kay Life)

World War II

Across the Blue Pacific: A World War II Story (PB - Louise W. Borden/Robert Andrew Parker)

Stepping on the Cracks (novel - Mary Downing Hahn)

Children of the World War II Home Front (NF - Sylvia Whitman)

Kids Make History: A New Look at America's Story (NF- Susan Buckley and Elspeth Leacock; illustrations by Randy Jones)

FEATURES SEVERAL CHILDREN IN HISTORY