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Year 1800
Kids	🎁 Cowboys and Coffin-Makers One Hundred 19th-century Jobs You Might Have Feared or Fancied	🎁 Victor A Novel Based on the Life of the Savage of Aveyron	The Wild Boy	The Broken Blade 🎁 Free here
	Into the Woods: John James Audubon Lives His Dream 🎁 Free here	Mill 🎁 Free here
Homeschool	🎁 Adventure Tales Vol. 1: p. 200 The capital	Napoleon to Lady Liberty: The World of the 1800’s (Draw and Write Through History, 5)	♛ Hearts and Hands: Chronicles of the Awakening Church William Carey
Adults	🎁 The writer’s guide to everyday life in the 1800s	Master and Commander  🎁 Free here	The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain	My Theodosia 🎁 Free here
	The Last Great Dance on Earth 🎁 Free here
Movies	Poldark Season 5	Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World

Year 1801
Kids	The Story of Thomas Jefferson: A Biography Book for New Readers	Who Was Thomas Jefferson?	🎁 The story of Thomas Jefferson	Year of the Horseless Carriage: 1801 🎁 Free here
	🎁 The Story of Monticello	🎁 Landmark Books: The First Overland Mail
Homeschool	🎁 Adventure Tales Vol. 1: p. 202 Jefferson democracy	US History: President Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 Note: The books above about Jefferson will review many of the events of the 1700s.
Adults	The Flower Boat Girl: A novel based on a true story of the woman who became the most powerful pirate in history	White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India 🎁 Free here
Movies	Thomas Jefferson – A Film by Ken Burns

Year 1802
Kids	🎁 Landmark Books: The West Point Story
Homeschool
Adults	Someone Knows My Name 🎁 Free here	Lake in the Clouds 🎁 Free here
Movies

Year 1803
Kids	Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About Westward Expansion  🎁 Free here This book covers material from 1803 to 1890.	🎁 The Louisiana Purchase	🎁 The Louisiana Purchase an American story 96 pages of a comic book retelling.	🎁 Landmark Books: The Louisiana Purchase
	Louisiana Purchase (Ready-for-Chapters) 🎁 Free here	🎁 Let’s go to the Louisiana Purchase	🎁 The story of the Louisiana Purchase	🎁 Landmark Books: The Lewis and Clark expedition
	🎁 The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition	The Journey of York: The Unsung Hero of the Lewis and Clark Expedition	How We Crossed The West: The Adventures Of Lewis And Clark	SeaMan: The Dog Who Explored The West With Lewis & Clark
	🎁 Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale	The Captain’s Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe 🎁 Free here	🎁 As far as the eye can reach Lewis and Clark’s westward quest	Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis & Clark
	🎁 Lewis and Clark a prairie dog for the president	🎁 Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark	🎁 Plants on the trail with Lewis and Clark	The Lewis and Clark Expedition (Graphic History) 🎁 Free here
	🎁 Sacajawea the journey west	National Geographic Readers: Sacagawea	🎁 Winged Moccasins the story of Sacajawea	Sacajawea 🎁 Free here
	🎁 Sacajawea: guide to Lewis and Clark	🎁 What’s the deal? Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase	🎁 Tecumseh	Beethoven’s Heroic Symphony
	🎁 Robert Fulton (Easy to read!)	🎁 Robert Fulton	🎁 Landmark Books: Robert Fulton and the Steamboat	Cabin on Trouble Creek 🎁 Free here
Homeschool	🎁 Adventure Tales Vol. 1: p. 203-204 John p. 205 The Louisiana Purchase Adventure Tales Student book: p. 44-45 p. 206 Lewis and Clark Adventure Tales Student book: p. 38-39	The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from Napoleonic France in 1803. The Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1803-1806	🎁 The Lewis & Clark Expedition join the Corps of Discovery to explore uncharted territory
Adults	A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America 🎁 Free here	Jefferson’s Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men behind the Louisiana Purchase	Sign-Talker: The Adventure of George Drouillard on the Lewis and Clark Expedition 🎁 Free here	Sacajawea (Lewis & Clark Expedition) This book starts when Sacajawea was a child. She was captured around the age of 11 by the Mandans, which would be approx. 1789. 🎁 Free here
	Sharpe’s Triumph: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye 🎁 Free here	Sharpe’s Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803 🎁 Free here
Movies	John Adams Part 7: 1803-1826	We Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes Episode 2 – Tecumseh’s Vision	National Geographic – Lewis & Clark – Great Journey West	Lewis & Clark – The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

Year 1804
Kids	Blades of Freedom (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #10): A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase	The Story of Napoleon	Blazing West, the Journal of Augustus Pelletier, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 🎁 Free here	🎁 The pioneer boys of the Yellowstone, or, Lost in the land of wonders
	🎁 The Emperor and the drummer boy	Who Was Napoleon?	What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?	🎁 The Age of Napoleon
	The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon	🎁 The First Book of the Oregon Trail
Homeschool	Europe: Napoleon was emperor of France from 1804-1814 and then again in 1815.
Adults	Napoleon: A Life
Movies

Year 1805
Kids	🎁 Time for Kids Readers (Grade 4): Martin de Leon	Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805 🎁 Free here	🎁 ♛ Michael Faraday father of electronics The book starts in his childhood. I’ve placed it here the year he was apprenticed as a young teen.	♛Michael Faraday: Spiritual Dynamo
	🎁 Faraday, pioneer of electricity	🎁 The Young Faraday	🎁 Michael Faraday, apprentice to science	Michael Faraday: From Errand Boy to Master Physicist
	Seaward Born	The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
Homeschool
Adults	Sharpe’s Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805 🎁 Free here
Movies

Year 1806
Kids	Noah Webster: Man of Many Words 🎁 Free here	Noah Webster: Weaver of Words		♛ Noah Webster: Master of Words
	Clang!: Ernst Chladni’s Sound Experiments	Stopping To Home
Homeschool
Adults	The Secret River 🎁 Free here	The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
Movies	The West Episode 1

Year 1807
Kids	Napoleon vs. the Bunnies	♛ William Wilberforce: Take Up the Fight	♛ William Wilberforce: The Freedom Fighter 🎁 Free here
Homeschool
Adults	Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery 🎁 Free here	Sharpe’s Prey: Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Denmark, 1807 🎁 Free here	Tecumseh: A Life 🎁 Free here
Movies	Amazing Grace

Year 1808
Kids	🎁 The Flying Ensign: Greencoats Against Napoleon	Ludwig van Beethoven 🎁 Free here	🎁 The story of Beethoven	🎁 Stranger in the Pines
	🎁 Jefferson Davis The book starts when he was born.
Homeschool	Beethoven for Kids: His Life and Music with 21 Activities
Adults	Mansfield Park 🎁 Free here Note: The only date in the book is the ball on Thursday, Dec. 22 – which only fell on 1808 and 1814 (when the book was published), so I’ve placed it in 1808.
Movies	Mansfield Park	Jane Austin’s Mansfield Park (PBS)

Year 1809
Kids	🎁 James Madison: Fourth President 1809-1817	The Great Little Madison  🎁 Free here	🎁 James Madison, statesman and President	Abraham Lincoln 🎁 Free here The book starts when he’s born.
	Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books 🎁 Free here	DK Readers L3: Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer, Leader, Legend 🎁 Free here	Who Was Abraham Lincoln? 🎁 Free here	Abraham Lincoln 🎁 Free here
	Landmark Books: Meet Abraham Lincoln 🎁 Free here	🎁 Landmark Books: Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House
Homeschool	US History: President James Madison 1809-1817	Abraham Lincoln’s world, 1809-1865 🎁 Free here
Adults	James Madison: America’s First Politician	James Madison: A Life Reconsidered 🎁 Free here	Sharpe’s Rifles	Sharpe’s Havoc: Richard Sharpe and the Campaign in Northern Portugal, Spring 1809 🎁 Free here
	Walk in My Soul 🎁 Free here	The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon’s Court 🎁 Free here	A. Lincoln: A Biography 🎁 Free here	Abraham Lincoln in the Kitchen: A Culinary View of Lincoln’s Life and Times
Movies

Year 1810
Kids	Manga Classics: Emma
Homeschool	🎁 Young Folk’s History of England Chapter 45 George III The Regency 1810-1820	England: British Regency Era 1810-1820
Adults	The Stranger from the Sea: A Novel of Cornwall, 1810-1811 🎁 Free here	Adult Coloring Book, Regency Fashion 1810	Sharpe’s Gold	Sharpe’s Escape: The Bussaco Campaign, 1810 🎁 Free here
	Emma 🎁 Free here
Movies	Emma (2020)	Emma (1996)

Year 1811
	The Dog That Dug for Dinosaurs 🎁 Free here	Stone Girl Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis	Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist	Mary Anning’s Curiosity
Kids	Fossil Hunter: How Mary Anning Changed the Science of Prehistoric Life	The Dragon in the Cliff: A Novel Based on the Life of Mary Anning	Lightning Mary	Russian Snows: Coming of Age in Napoleon’s Army
	Sense & Sensibility (Marvel Illustrated)	Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility	Manga Classics: Sense and Sensibility	🎁 Adventures in Canadian History: The Death of Tecumseh
Homeschool
Adults	Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters	Sense and Sensibility 🎁 Free here	The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England from 1811-1901	Regency Buck 🎁 Free here
	The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern	Sharpe’s Fury: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811 🎁 Free here	Sharpe’s Battle: The Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811 🎁 Free here	Georgette Heyer’s Regency World 🎁 Free here
	The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Movies	Sense And Sensibility	YouTube search: Regency House Party

Year 1812
Kids	🎁 Jean Laffite: The Pirate Who Saved America	Through Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon’s Retreat from Moscow 🎁 Free here	🎁 1812: The War Nobody Won	Jeremy’s War 1812 🎁 Free here
	Mr. Madison’s War: Causes and Effects of the War of 1812	Dolley Madison and the War of 1812: America’s First Lady	🎁 Disney Press: Tecumseh– one nation for his people	🎁 Dear Canada: Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt
	🎁 Usborne Young Readers: War and Peace	🎁 Little house by Boston Bay	🎁 On Tide Mill Lane
Homeschool	🎁 Adventure Tales Vol. 1: p. 207-210 The War of 1812	US History: Louisiana was admitted to the Union War of 1812: 1812-1815 Europe: Napoleon invaded Russia
Adults	The Miller’s Dance: A Novel of Cornwall, 1812-1813  🎁 Free here	Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace 🎁 Free here	1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow	The Burning of Moscow: Napoleon’s Trail By Fire, 1812
	Sharpe’s Company 🎁 Free here	1812: The War That Forged a Nation 🎁 Free here	1812: The Navy’s War	Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812 *Brock was a Canadian.
	War and Peace 🎁 Free here	Vanity Fair 🎁 Free here	Fire Along the Sky
Movies	War of 1812	The Duelists	Vanity Fair	Vanity Fair
	War and Peace	War & Peace, Season 1	To The Ends of the Earth (BBC Series)	YouTube search: Battlefield Detectives: The War of 1812: The Chesapeake

Year 1813
Kids	The Town that Fooled the British: A War of 1812 Story 🎁 Free here	The Treasure of Amelia Island	♛ Adoniram Judson: Bound for Burma	🎁 ♛ Adoniram Judson
	♛ Adoniram Judson: A Grand Purpose	♛ Adoniram Judson: Danger on the Streets of Gold	Who Was Davy Crockett? 🎁 Free here	🎁 Landmark Books: Simon Bolivar The Great Liberator
	🎁 Time Readers for Kids: Simon Bolivar	🎁 Abraham Lincoln, friend of the people The book starts when he is 4 years old.	🎁 The Battle of Lake Erie
Homeschool	♛ Hearts and Hands: Chronicles of the Awakening Church Elizabeth Fry Revolutions and Rebellions
Adults	The Loving Cup: A Novel of Cornwall, 1813-1815 🎁 Free here	Friday’s Child	Bolivar: American Liberator
Movies

Year 1814
Kids	Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner 🎁 Free here	The Star-Spangled Banner 🎁 Free here	Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator  🎁 Free here Book starts when he is 5 years old.	♛ John Williams: Messenger of Peace Book starts when he is 14 years old.
	🎁 Landmark Books: Sam Houston: The Tallest Texan
Homeschool
Adults	Flawless, My Dear: How to Be More Bridgerton	The Dawn’s Early Light 🎁 Free here	Persuasion 🎁 Free here	James Monroe: A Life
	Queen of Swords
Movies	Persuasion

Year 1815
Kids	Les Miserables (A Stepping Stone Book)	Les Misérables	Les Misérables (Classics Illustrated)	Les Misérables: Children’s Edition
	Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends 🎁 Free here	🎁 Dear Canada: Footsteps In the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott, Rupert’s Land, 1815	The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans	Manga Classics: Les Miserables
	🎁 The Road from Roxbury
Homeschool	🎁 Adventure Tales Vol. 1: p. 212 Nationalism and the era of good feelings	Europe: Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo
Adults	Les Misérables  🎁 Free here	The Twisted Sword: A Novel of Cornwall, 1815 🎁 Free here	Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles 🎁 Free here	Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Gamble 🎁 Free here
Movies	Belgravia Episode 1	The Journey of August King	Napoleon’s Waterloo	Waterloo

Year 1816
Kids	Shaka: King of the Zulus (Shaka was the founder of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816-1828).	🎁 Reaper man the story of Cyrus Hall McCormick Book starts when he is a boy.	King Shaka: Zulu Legend (African Graphic Novel Series)	Manga Classics Jane Eyre
	🎁 Usborne Young Reading Series: Jane Eyre	Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer	John Williams: Messenger of Peace	The Journeyman
	🎁 America’s Abraham Lincoln	🎁 The First Book of Pioneers: Northwest Territory
Homeschool	Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art 🎁 Free here p. 33 Constable 1776-1837 Painted Wivenhoe Park in 1816	US History: Indiana was admitted to the Union
Adults	The Zulus at War: The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears Book covers a multitude of time periods into the early 1900s.	Jane Eyre 🎁 Free here	Lincoln 🎁 Free here
Movies	Shaka Zulu	Shaka Zulu – The Complete Mini-Series

Year 1817
Kids	Adventures of Richard Wagner	🎁 James Monroe: Fifth President, 1817-1825	♛ The Thieves of Tyburn Square
Homeschool	US History: Mississippi was admitted to the Union James Monroe: Fifth President, 1817-1825
Adults	Cousin Kate 🎁 Free here
Movies	Masterpiece: Sanditon

Year 1818
Kids	🎁 Juarez hero of Mexico Book starts when he is 12 years old.	Across the Puddingstone Dam
Homeschool	US History: Illinois was admitted to the Union
Adults	Bella Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1818-1820 🎁 Free here	Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
Movies

Year 1819
Kids	🎁 Chingo Smith of the Eerie Canal The story occurs when the canal isn’t finished (it was started in 1817 and finished in 1825).	🎁 Queen Victoria; English Empress Book starts during her birth and childhood.	🎁 Queen Victoria and Her Enormous Empire Other edition: Queen Victoria and Her Amusements (Dead Famous)
Homeschool	🎁 Adventure Tales Vol. 1: p. 213 McCulloch v. Maryland (implied powers)	US History: Alabama was admitted to the Union	♛ Hearts and Hands: Chronicles of the Awakening Church Liang Fa A New Method of Missions
Adults	Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire The book starts at her birth.
Movies

Year 1820
Kids	To Preserve the Union: Causes and Effects of the Missouri Compromise	Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland, Early Years	Wintering Well
Homeschool	🎁 Adventure Tales Vol. 1: p. 219 Missouri Compromise	🎁 Young Folk’s History of England Chapter 46 George IV	England: George IV 1820-1830 US History: Missouri Compromise	A History of US: Liberty for All?: 1820-1860 🎁 Free here
Adults	George IV: King in Waiting	Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse The book starts at her birth.
Movies	Hawaii