Note: This is an index of non-fiction posts that are for the most part NOT book reviews. Book Reviews of non-fiction books are generally not in this index but under the tabs for “BOOK REVIEWS”. You can also find many more non-fiction posts on our history blog, Legal Legacy
Alcohol
- National Absinthe Day
- Champagne
- Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot and Champagne
- Founding Fathers and Alcohol
- Green Beer
- National Drink Beer Day
- National Rum Day
- National Scotch Day
- National Wine Day
- Pimm’s
- Prohibition and Its Repeal
Arizona
- Christmas in Arizona
- Christmas in Southwest Arizona
- Day of the Dead
- Flowers in the Desert
- Gadsden Purchase
- Gila Monster
- Mistletoe in Tucson is Not For Kissing
- Decorating Cacti at Christmas
- Tucson Festival of Books 2009
- Tucson Festival of Books 2010
- Tucson Festival of Books 2011
- Tucson Festival of Books 2012
- Tucson in Springtime
- Xeriscaping
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Atomic Weapons (find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy)
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Accident, and The Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
- Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atomic Bomb
- Explosion of First Atomic Bomb
- “A Fiery Peace in a Cold War” (review of book by Neil Sheehan on development of Minuteman Missiles)
- President Truman Approves Development of the H-Bomb
- Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes
- Nuclear Arsenal
- Nuclear Capability Out of Control
Biographies
- Ralph Abernathy
- Abigail Adams
- John Adams
- Saul Alinsky
- Matthew Arnold
- Isaac Asimov
- W.H. Auden
- William Ayers
- Mary Ann Bickerdyke
- Charles L. Black, Jr.
- Amelia Jenks Bloomer
- Ray Bradbury
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- John Brown
- Robert Burns
- Lewis Carroll
- Rachel Carson
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Winston Churchill
- Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot
- Cicero
- e. e. cummings
- Marie Curie
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- Frederick Douglass
- W.E.B. DuBois
- Albert Einstein
- Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington
- Rahm Emanuel
- Fannie Farmer
- Richard Feynman
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Benjamin Franklin
- Klaus Fuchs
- Galileo
- Althea Gibson
- Dizzy Gillespie
- George F. Grant
- Ulysses S. Grant
- 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick
- Grant Broke Through At Petersburg
- Grant’s Final Victory by Charles Bracelen Flood
- Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H.W. Brands
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- Hermann Hesse
- Billie Holiday
- Henry Hudson
- Langston Hughes
- Marjorie Husted (a.k.a. Betty Crocker)
- Andrew Jackson
- Stonewall Jackson
- Thomas Jefferson
- Andrew Johnson
- Jack Johnson
- Lyndon Johnson
- James Joyce
- Frida Kahlo
- Helen Keller
- John F. Kennedy
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Rashid Khalidi
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy)
- John Lennon
- Cudjo Lewis
- Abraham Lincoln (find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy)
- Birthday of Lincoln & Resources on Lincoln
- Birthday Cake, Lincoln’s Favorite
- Descendants
- Descendants – The Last Lincolns (book review)
- 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and The War They Failed To See
- Emancipation Proclamation
- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
- First Inauguration
- The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination by Gary Ecelbarger
- Law Practice
- An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln
- What Kind of Law Did Lincoln Practice?
- Lincoln’s Most Famous Court Case: The Almanac Trial
- Lincoln and Constitutional issues
- Lincoln at Cooper Union
- Lincoln at Gettysburg
- Lincoln at Peoria by Lewis E. Lehrman
- Lincoln at The Gates of History by Charles Bracelen Flood
- Lincoln Explains His Position on Slavery
- Lincoln’s Assassination
- Lincoln and His Admirals
- President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman by William Miller
- President Lincoln Asks the Band to Play Dixie
- President Lincoln Asks Grant to “Press the Thing”
- Lincoln’s Death
- Lincoln’s Death: A Poem
- Lincoln’s Legacy
- Lincoln in the World by Kevin Peraino
- Resources on Lincoln
- Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year
- Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief by James McPherson
- Year of Meteors by Douglas Egerton
- Belva Lockwood
- Malcolm X
- John Marshall
- Thurgood Marshall
- Lisa Meitner
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill
- Jerrie Mock – The Flying Housewife
- Marilyn Monroe
- Garrett Morgan
- Isaac Newton
- Rosa Parks
- Pablo Picasso
- Leontyne Price
- Lawrence Dunbar Reddick
- Paul Robeson
- Craig Robinson
- Jackie Robinson
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
- Charles Schulz
- William Seward
- Nina Simone
- Gertrude Stein
- Jim Thorpe
- Harry Truman
- Sojourner Truth
- Booker T. Washington
- George Washington
- Birth
- Celebration Dinner
- Date of Washington’s Birthday
- Inventing George Washington by Edward G. Lengel
- The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life by Harlow Giles Unger
- Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
- Eli Whitney
- Robert F. Williams
- Victoria Woodhull
- Granville Woods
- William Butler Yeats
Black History Month Generally
- 2010 – Black History Month Wrap Up
- Black History Month – Books for Children on Civil Rights
- Black History Month – Books for Children on Notable Black Men
- Black History Month – Books for Children on Notable Black Women
- Black History Month – Books for Children on Slavery
- Celebrating Black History
Bloomsday
Book Expo America
Challenger, Explosion of Space Shuttle
Christmas
- Christmas in Chicago, Illinois
- Christmas in Mundelein, Illinois
- Christmas in Prescott, Arizona
- Christmas in Tucson, Arizona
- Christmas Traditions in the Southwest
- Decorating Cacti at Christmas
- Decorating Customs
- Life-sized Gingerbread Houses
- Three Kings Day
- Who Invented Christmas Lights?
- Why Is Christmas Celebrated on December 25?
- Luminarias or Farolitos
- The Man Who Invented Christmas
- The Night Before Christmas
- Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Civil Rights (see also, Black History Month Generally, Martin Luther King, Jr., Race, Slavery and find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy)
- Attack on Freedom Riders
- Black History Month – Books for Children on Civil Rights
- Church Bombing in Alabama
- John Coltrane
- Civil Rights Murders in Mississippi
- Deaths of Rosa Parks & Jackie Robinson
- Harassment of Black Voters in Mississippi in 1964
- Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Line in Baseball
- James Meredith Enrolls at U. Miss.
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Quadruple Lynching in 1946
- Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
- The Real Rosa Parks
- Selma, Alabama Attack on Civil Rights Protesters
Civil War (Find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy)
- 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick
- Attack on Fort Sumter
- Battle of Petersburg
- Battle of Shiloh
- Gettysburg by Allen C. Guelzo
- Pickett’s Charge
- President Lincoln Asks the Band to Play Dixie
- President Lincoln Asks Grant to “Press the Thing”
- Stealing the General by Russell S. Bonds
- Stonewall Jackson
- Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H.W. Brands
Cold War
- The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
- A Fiery Peace In A Cold War by Neil Sheehan
Columbus Day
- Columbus Day
- A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
Declaration of Independence
Diversity
Eisenhower, President Dwight David
Richard Feynman
- Challenger, Space Shuttle
- The Fantastic Feynmans
- Four Lectures by Feynman
- Important Times For Science
Founding Fathers (Find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy)
- John Adams
- Aaron Burr
- Dying on the Fourth of July
- Benjamin Franklin
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Alexander Hamilton’s Duel with Aaron Burr by Thomas Fleming
- Thomas Jefferson
- George Washington
- Birth
- Celebration Dinner
- Date of Washington’s Birthday
- Inventing George Washington by Edward G. Lengel
- The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life by Harlow Giles Unger
- Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Fourth of July
- Celebrate with Ice Cream!
- A Deadly Day
- The Declaration is Adopted by the Colonies
- Happy July 2nd?
- Happy July 4th!
- Red, White, and Blue Desserts for the Fourth of July!
Galileo Galilei
- The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition by Dan Hofstadter
- Galileo Goes Skywatching
- Important Times For Science
Georgia Became the First State to Ban Lynching
Gender Issues
- The Ear Tuck Database and Appeal of Male Domination & Female Submission
- A Fondness for “Frippers” – or Bodice Rippers Involving Werewolves
- Sexual Abuse in the Military
- What is Erotic to Women Readers?
Graphic Novels – What Are They?
Holocaust
- The Pity of It All by Amos Elon
- Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- Smoke Over Birkenau by Liana Millu
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Inauguration Day
- Previous Presidential Inaugural Addresses
- President Lincoln’s Bible
- Why Is Inauguration Day on January 20?
Ireland
- Bloomsday in Dublin
- Galway Hookers
- The Immortal Irishman
- Ireland Notes the Election of a U.S. Black President
- Monastery at Clonmacnoise
Japanese Internment Camps
- Japanese Internees – Book Review
- Japanese Internees Released
- Korematsu v. United States
- “Praying For Safety”
Jefferson, Thomas
[find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy]
- “The Art of Power”
- Jefferson’s Library
- “Jefferson’s Pillow”
- Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America by Thomas Fleming
- Thomas Jefferson’s Recipe for Ice Cream
Johnson, Lyndon
- Passage to Power
- President Johnson and Eugene McCarthy on Vietnam
- President Johnson Opts Not to Seek Reelection
- Speech at Gettysburg in 1963
King, Jr., Martin Luther
[find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy]
- Awarded Nobel Prize
- Birthday
- Black Bus Boycott in Alabama
- Black Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis
- Electronic Resources
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Home Bombed
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- March on Washington – 50th Anniversary
- Morehouse College Collection
- King’s Last Day
- King’s Last Speech
- King’s Legacy
- King’s Thoughts on His Own Death
- Words of Inspiration
Lincoln, Abraham
[find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy]
- Birthday of Lincoln
- Birthday Cake, Lincoln’s Favorite
- Descendants
- Descendants – The Last Lincolns (book review)
- 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and The War They Failed To See
- Death of Abraham Lincoln in Poetry
- Emancipation Proclamation
- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
- First Inauguration
- The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination by Gary Ecelbarger
- Law Practice
- An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln
- What Kind of Law Did Lincoln Practice?
- Lincoln’s Most Famous Court Case: The Almanac Trial
- Lincoln and Constitutional issues
- Lincoln at Cooper Union
- Lincoln at Gettysburg
- Lincoln at Peoria by Lewis E. Lehrman
- Lincoln at The Gates of History by Charles Bracelen Flood
- Lincoln Explains His Position on Slavery
- Lincoln’s Assassination
- Lincoln and His Admirals
- President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman by William Miller
- President Lincoln Asks the Band to Play Dixie
- President Lincoln Asks Grant to “Press the Thing”
- Lincoln’s Death
- Lincoln’s Death: A Poem
- Lincoln’s Legacy
- Lincoln in the World by Kevin Peraino
- Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year
- Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief by James McPherson
- Year of Meteors by Douglas Egerton
Middle East
[find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy]
- A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
- Gilles Kepel on the Middle East
- Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren
Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott
Music
- Bess You Is My Woman Now
- Body and Soul
- Billie Holiday
- Victor Borge
- Brigadoon
- Jeff Buckley
- Johnny Cash
- Ray Charles
- John Coltrane
- Damn Yankees
- Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald
- George Gershwin
- Glenn Miller
- Guys and Dolls
- Coleman Hawkins
- Earl “Fatha” Hines
- Lena Horne
- The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford
- Lena Horne Records Stormy Weather
- Howlin’ Wolf
- Etta James
- Carole King
- Klezmer
- M.I.A.
- Night and Day
- Charlie Parker
- Porgy and Bess
- Leontyne Price
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Ritz Chamber Players
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Josefina Scaglione
- Show Boat
- Nina Simone
- Pete Singer
- Sita Sings the Blues
- Sonny Terry
- South Pacific
- Stormy Weather
- They Can’t Take That Away From Me
- Waltzing Matilda
- Muddy Waters
- Hank Williams
- Woodstock
National Food Holidays
- Fourth of July – Red, White, and Blue Desserts
- National Absinthe Day
- National Apple Pie Day
- National Bagel Day
- National Banana Lovers Day
- National Buttermilk Biscuit Day
- National Carrot Cake Day
- National Cheese Day
- National Chocolate Day
- National Chocolate Cake Day
- National Chocolate Chip Day
- National Chocolate Pudding Day
- National Cinnamon Bun Day in Sweden
- National Cinnamon Roll Day
- National Cocoa Day
- National Coffee Day
- National Corn on the Cob Day
- National Cranberry Day
- National Deep Dish Pizza Day
- National Drink Beer Day
- National Eat A Peach Day
- National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day
- National Homemade Cookies Day
- National Hot Dog Day
- National Frozen Custard Day
- National Hot Fudge Sundae Day
- National Hot Tea Month
- National Ice Cream Day
- National Mustard Day
- National Pancake Day
- National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
- National PI Day 2013
- National PI Day 2014
- National Pizza Month
- National Pizza Month: Why Is Pizza So Good?
- National Popcorn Day
- National Pretzel Day
- National Rice Krispies Treat Day
- National Rum Day
- National Sacher Torte Day
- National Scotch Day
- National Wine Day
National Library Week
New Year’s Eve
Pi Day
- Time For Pi Day!
- Celebrate Pi Day! 2014
- Once in A Lifetime Pi Day! – 2015
- Pi Day 2019
- Pi Day and Pi-Shaped Pie
- Pi Day Literature
Poets and Poetry
- The Appeal of Poetry – What Is It?
- Matthew Arnold (“Dover Beach”)
- W.H. Auden (“Funeral Blues”)
- Julianna Baggott (“An Open Letter to Mrs. Lincoln”)
- Catherine Bowman (“I Want To Be Your Shoebox”)
- Charlotte Bronte
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Robert Burns
- Paul Celan
- e.e. cummings
- T.S. Eliot
- Seamus Heany (“Lightenings VII”)
- Langston Hughes (“I Too Sing America”)
- Mark Kurlansky (“Americans Have Cinnamon on Their Buns”)
- Musings on Poetry
- Pablo Neruda/li>
- Over the River and Through the Wood
- Wilfred Owen
- Poetry and Marriage
- Poetry and Science
- Cole Porter
- Adrienne Rich (“The Dream of a Common Language”)
- Shakespeare v. Shakespeare
- Richard Siken (“Unhappy Hour”)
- Song Lyrics of Summer Love
- Song Lyrics Redux
- Wallace Stevens
- Eleanor Swanson (“The Radium Girls”)
- Walt Whitman (“O Captain! My Captain!”)
- What Is A Poem?
- What Is Poetry?
- William Butler Yeats
- World War I Poetry Archive
Race
[find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy]
- Attitudes Toward Religion for Blacks in Antebellum America
- Black Americans in Congress
- Black Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis
- Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson
- Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama
- Colfax Massacre
- D.C. Blacks Granted Right To Vote
- Gone With the Wind Premier
- KKK Murders in Mississippi in 1964
- Review of “Forever Free: Emancipation & Reconstruction by Eric Foner
- Lynching of WWII Veterans
- The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny & the Fight for Civil Rights
- President Kennedy addresses the nation about racism
- Race in the Global Era by Clarence Lusane
- Ruby Bridges and School Integration in Louisiana
- Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power by Timothy Tyson
- Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Recipes
- Baked French Toast
- Banana Bread
- Carrot Cake
- Cheese Scones
- Chocolate Pudding Cake in a Cup
- Christmas Cranberry Cake Bar Cookies
- Cinnamon Toast
- Cowgirl Apple Pie
- Cream of Peanut Soup
- George Washington’s Birthday Cake
- Ginger Cookies (Soft and Chewy)
- Green Beer
- Hasheesh Fudge
- Hoe Cakes
- Hot Chocolate – Frrrozen
- Hot Chocolate – Quick & Sneaky
- Hot Fudge Sauce
- Irish Coffee
- Jefferson’s Recipe for Ice Cream
- Kahlua Brownies
- Mary Todd Lincoln’s White Cake
- Molten Chocolate Cake
- New Frontier Chocolate Mousse
- November Cakes
- Ooey-Gooey Double-Chocolate Cookies
- Ozark Pudding
- Peanut Butter Ice Cream
- Pizza
- Pumpkin Flavor Time
- Pumpkin Streusel Coffee Cake Bars
- Pumpkin Streusel Pie
- Rum Cake
- Scones
- Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie
- Sugar Cookies
- Syrniki (Russian Cheese Pancakes)
- Thomas Jefferson’s Recipe for Ice Cream
- Vegetarian Haggis
On Reviewing Books
- Evaluating Children’s Books
- Evaluating Books for Young Adults (guest post on another blog)
- Should Parents Preview What Their Kids Read?
- What Makes a Book “YA” Versus “Adult”?
Saint Patrick’s Day
Slavery
[find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy]
- Black History Month – Books for Children on Slavery
- The Last Survivor of The Last Slave Ship
- Slave Trade Database
- Review of “Forever Free: Emancipation & Reconstruction by Eric Foner
- Review of “Rough Crossings” by Simon Schama
- Review of “The Slaveholding Republic” by Don Fehrenbacher
Sports
- Hank Aaron
- Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney Match
- African-American Golfers
- Althea Gibson
- Joshua Gibson
- Homer in the Gloamin
- Jack Johnson – The first African American world heavyweight boxing champion
- Bronko Nagurski
- Walter Payton
- Jackie Robinson
- Gale Sayers
- Jim Thorpe
- Gene Tunney
- Mildred Ella (”Babe”) Didrikson Zaharias
Supreme Court Decisions
[find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy]
- Baker v. Carr
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Buck v. Bell
- Carolene Products v. U.S.
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado
- Lambert v. Yellowley
- Lochner v. New York
- Loving v. Virginia
- Marbury v. Madison
- Meyer v. Nebraska
- Moore v. Dempsey
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
- Roe v. Wade
- Slaughterhouse Cases
- Standard Oil v. United States
- Youngstown Sheet Tube v. Sawyer
Tau Day
Terrorism
Thanksgiving
- Date of Thanksgiving
- How America Came to Have a Thanksgiving Holiday
- History of Thanksgiving
- National Thanksgiving Day Turkey Pardon
- The Obama Family’s 2008 Thanksgiving
- Over the River and Through the Wood
- Pronunciation of Thanksgiving
- Why is a Turkey Called a Turkey?
- Umoja Karamu
- Yams versus Sweet Potatoes
Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World by Roy Adkins
George Washington (find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy)
- Birth
- Celebration Dinner
- Date of Washington’s Birthday
- Death of George Washington
- Inventing George Washington by Edward G. Lengel
- Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Women’s History (find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy)
- Susan B. Anthony
- Boston Women’s Health Collective
- The Radium Girls
- Rise Feminist Book Project with Annual List of Books With Feminist Themes for Young Readers
- Sexual Abuse of Women in the Military
- Women’s History Month Generally
- Women’s History Month in Law
- Women’s History Month in Literature and History
- Women’s Suffrage Parade
World War I (Find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy)
- Review of 50 Things You Should Know About the First World War by Jim Eldridge
- Review of Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings
- Review of Review of The Long Shadow: The Legacies of The Great War in the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds
- Review of The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began by Jack Beatty
- Review of A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
- Review of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
- Supreme Council of Supply and Relief
- Versailles Conference
- The War That Ended Peace
World War II (Find more coverage at our other blog, Legal Legacy)
- Review of Armageddon by Max Hastings
- Review of Assault in Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program by Thomas Gallagher
- Review of The Guns At Last Light: The War in Western Europe: 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson
- Review of The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
- Review of Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh
- Review of No Simple Victory by Norman Davies
- Review of Retribution: The Battle for Japan: 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
- Review of World War II And The Battle For Food by Lizzie Collingham
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