Steve Sheinkin Books in Order

Sheinkin retells the American Revolution through unusual incidents, memorable quotations, and the experiences of soldiers, spies, and political leaders. Personal stories and surprising details bring the conflict and the people behind familiar historical events into focus.

Rabbi Harvey arrives in a Colorado frontier town and defeats its criminals through reasoning rather than gunfire. These illustrated adventures adapt Jewish folktales into disputes, mysteries and moral challenges resolved with humor, compassion and unexpected ingenuity.

In the frontier town of Elk Spring, Rabbi Harvey tackles criminals and everyday disputes using Jewish wisdom rather than a weapon. Ten illustrated adventures give traditional folktales a Western setting, testing the resourcefulness of the town’s unlikely protector.

Steve Sheinkin traces the causes and course of the American Civil War through the experiences of soldiers, politicians and civilians. Personal stories and unusual details illuminate the conflict over slavery and the choices that threatened the nation’s survival.

An illustrated history follows America’s expansion westward, from the Louisiana Purchase to railroads, gold rushes and frontier settlements. Accounts of explorers, settlers and Native peoples reveal the ambition, violence and everyday realities behind familiar national legends.

A rival rabbi known as the Wisdom Kid joins a group determined to drive Rabbi Harvey from Elk Spring. Harvey must outthink their schemes to protect his friend Abigail and preserve the town from a hostile takeover.

Benedict Arnold’s life moves from daring Revolutionary War victories to the betrayal that defines his reputation. Sheinkin examines the ambition, military talent and hunger for recognition that helped transform a celebrated American commander into an infamous traitor.

The discovery of nuclear fission launches a global contest involving scientists, spies and military commandos. Sheinkin follows the effort to develop the atomic bomb and the attempts to steal or sabotage its secrets during the Second World War.

A counterfeiting gang plans to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body and exchange it for its imprisoned leader’s freedom and a ransom. Secret Service investigators and an undercover informant attempt to stop the extraordinary plot before the thieves reach Lincoln’s tomb.

After a deadly explosion at Port Chicago in 1944, Black sailors refuse to resume dangerous work under discriminatory conditions. Fifty face mutiny charges, exposing the racial injustice within a military demanding their service while denying them equal treatment.

Government analyst Daniel Ellsberg becomes convinced that Americans deserve to know the truth about the Vietnam War. His decision to release the Pentagon Papers risks his career and freedom while challenging presidential secrecy and accepted definitions of patriotism.

Jim Thorpe and coach Pop Warner help make the Carlisle Indian School football team a formidable national competitor. Their athletic achievements unfold against racism and an institution designed to suppress the Native cultures of the young men playing for it.

Abigail Adams abandons the unfinished White House for an adventure as a Caribbean pirate, upsetting the course of history. Siblings Abby and Doc must persuade her to return to her proper place before the historical disruption spreads further.

After hearing children dismiss history as boring, Abraham Lincoln leaves 1860 to become a professional wrestler. Abby and Doc must track him down and persuade him to accept the presidency before his change of career rewrites the past.

Amelia Earhart’s historic Atlantic flight takes an impossible detour into ancient Greece. Abby and Doc enlist Olympic champion Kyniska to help return the aviator to her own time and prevent another disruption to the history they know.

Women aviators challenge expectations and dangerous flying conditions in the first women’s air race across America. Following pilots including Amelia Earhart and Louise Thaden, Sheinkin connects their earlier lives with the risks and competition of the 1929 race.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s spacecraft unexpectedly reaches nineteenth-century Texas, where cowboy Nat Love wants to travel to the moon. Abby and Doc must untangle the resulting historical confusion and get the displaced travelers back where they belong.

The United States and Soviet Union race to expand their nuclear arsenals and technological power after World War II. Spies, submarines and political brinkmanship propel the rivalry toward the Cuban Missile Crisis and the possibility of global catastrophe.

As Rudolf Vrba plans an escape from Auschwitz to expose mass murder, his former schoolmate Gerta hides under an assumed identity in Hungary. Their parallel struggles reveal the urgent choices confronting Jewish teenagers as Nazi persecution closes around them.

In 1940 Britain, nineteen year old Jakob Novis and his sharp tongued younger sister Lizzie reunite at the secret codebreaking center at Bletchley Park. While Jakob works on Nazi ciphers, Lizzie hunts for clues about their missing mother, uncovering riddles that reach deep into the war.