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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection

Of general interest:

Krassen, Miles. Masters of Old-Time Fiddling. N.Y.: Oak Publications, 1983.

Lilly, John, ed. Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Milnes, Gerald. Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1999.

Wolfe, Charles. The Devil's Box: Masters of Southern Fiddling. Nashville: The Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, 1997.

Especially for younger readers:

Silverman, Jerry. Singing Our Way West: Songs and Stories from America's Westward Expansion. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1998.

Thomas, Roger. Folk and Country. Des Plaines, IL: Heinemann Library, 1998.

Waring, Dennis. Gonna Sing My Head Off! American Folk Songs for Children. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.


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First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

Of general interest:

Bentley, Anna Briggs (1796-1890). American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

Calloway, Colin G. New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Foster, Emily. The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Gruenwald, Kim M. River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002.

Especially for younger readers:

Boekhoff, P.M. and Stuart A. Kallen. Ohio. San Diego, California: Kidhaven Press, 2002.

Hemphill, Kris. Ambush in the Wilderness. New York: Silver Moon Press, 2003.

Lepore, Jill. ed. Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Monceaux, Morgan. My Heroes, My People: African Americans and Native Americans in the West. New York: Frances Foster Books, 1999.

Stefoff, Rebecca. The Opening of the West. New York: Benchmark Books, 2002.


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First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920

Of general interest:

Barnwell, Marion, ed. A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

Botkin, B.A. Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945.

Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.

King, Richard H. A Southern Renaissance: The Cultural Awakening of the American South, 1930-1955. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Especially for younger readers:

Cooper, Michael L. Bound for the Promised Land. New York: Lodestar Books/Dutton, 1995.

Hurmence, Belinda, ed. Slavery Time When I Was Chillun. New York: Putnam, 1997.

Mettger, Zak. Reconstruction. New York: Lodestar Books/Dutton, 1995.


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Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942

Of general interest:

Bindas, Kenneth J. All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA's Federal Music Project and American Society, 1935-1939. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Findlay, James A. and Margaret Bing. The WPA: An Exhibition of Works Progress Administration (WPA) Literature and Art from the Collections of the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts. Fort Lauderdale, FL: Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, 1998.

Mangione, Jerry. The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1972.

The WPA Guide to Florida: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Florida. With a New Introduction by John I. McCollum. N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1984.

Especially for younger readers:

Asch, Frank. Sawgrass Poems: A View of the Everglades Poems. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1996.

Heinrichs, Ann. Florida. N.Y.: Children's Press, 1998.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings. N.Y.: Norton, 1999.

Lucas, Eileen. Everglades. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1995.


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From Slavery to Freedom, 1824-1909

Of general interest:

Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller, eds. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation. N.Y.: The New Press, in association with the Library of Congress, 1998.

Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans. 7th ed., N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Christian, Charles M. Black Saga: The African-American Experience: A Chronology. Washington, D.C.: Civitas/Counterpoint, 1999.

Ham, Debra Newman. The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993.

Especially for younger readers:

Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Hatt, Christine. Slavery: From Africa to the Americas. N.Y.: Peter Bedrick Books, 1997.

Koslow, Philip. Building a New World: Africans in America, 1500-1900. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1997.

Myers, Walter Dean. Now is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom. N.Y.:HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.


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FSA/OWI Photographs, 1935-1945

Of general interest:

Fleischhauer, Carl and Beverly W. Brannan. Documenting America, 1935-1943. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Stott, William. Documentary Expression and Thirties America. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Stryker, Roy Emerson and Nancy Wood. In This Proud Land: America 1935-1943 as Seen in the FSA Photographs. N.Y.: Galahad Books, 1973.

Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1986.

Especially for younger readers:

Krull, Kathleen. V is for Victory: America Remembers World War II. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Stanley, Jerry. Children of the Dust Bowl. N.Y.: Crown Publishers, 1992.

Stein, R. Conrad. The Great Depression. N.Y.: Children's Press, 1993.

Turner, Robyn. Dorthea Lange. Boston.: Little, Brown & Company, 1994.


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