Aimed at young adults, American author Martin W. Sandler’s history book 1919: The Year that Changed America (2019) is divided into six chapters, each one devoted to a paradigm-shifting event from 1919. These include Boston's Great Molasses Flood, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment that granted women the right to vote, the racist attacks on African Americans during the Red Summer, the anti-Communist Red Scare movement, widespread labor unrest, and the onset of Prohibition. For 1919: The Year That Changed America, Sandler received a nomination for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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