The Aaron Copland Collection, ca. 1900-1990

Of general interest:

Copland Aaron and Vivian Perlis. Copland 1900 Through 1942. New York: St. Martins Press, 1984. Catalog Record

Copland, Aaron and Vivian Perlis. Copland Since 1943. New York: St. Martins Press, 1989. Catalog Record

Levin, Gail and Judith Tick. Aaron Copland's America : a cultural perspective. New York : Watson-Guptill, 2000. Catalog Record

Pollack, Howard. Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999. Catalog Record

Especially for younger readers:

Bredeson, Carmen and Ralph Thiboudeau. Ten Great American Composers. Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, 2002. Catalog Record

Peare, Catherine Owens. Aaron Copland: His Life. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Catalog Record

Venezia, Mike. Aaron Copland. Chicago: Children’s Press, 1995. Catalog Record

Abraham Lincoln Papers

Of general interest:

Cuomo, Mario M. and Harold Holzer. Lincoln on Democracy: His Own Words, with Essays by America's Foremost Civil War Historians. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1990.

Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. N.Y.: Simon & Shuster, 1995.

Neely, Mark E., Jr. The Last Great Hope on Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America. Cambridge, Mass.; Harvard University Press; San Marino, Calif.: The Huntington Library, and Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Library, 1993.

Peterson, Merrill. Lincoln in American Memory. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Especially for younger readers:

Freedman, Russell. Lincoln: A Photobiography. N.Y.: Clarion Books, 1987.

Kent, Deborah. The Lincoln Memorial. N.Y.: Children's Press, 1996.

Morris, Jeffrey Brandon. The Lincoln Way. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1996.

If You Grew Up with Abraham Lincoln. N.Y.: Scholastic, 1992.

Robertson, James I., Jr. Civil War! America Becomes a Nation. An Illustrated History for Young People. N.Y.: Knopf, 1996.

The African American Odyssey

Of general interest:

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, Library of Congress, 1993.

Especially for younger readers:

Hamilton, Virginia. Many Thousands Gone: African Americans From Slavery to Freedom. N.Y.: Knopf, 1993.

Hudson, Wade and Cheryl, eds. How Sweet the Sound: African-American Songs for children. N.Y.:Scholastic, 1995.

Medeavis, Angela Shelf. This Far to Freedom: A History of African Americans. N.Y.: Atheneum, 1993.

Potter, Joan and Constance Claytor. African Americans Who Were First. N.Y.: Cobblehill Books, 1997.

The African-American Experience in Ohio

Of general interest:

Banta, R. E. The Ohio. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1949.

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

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.

Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Especially for younger readers:

Bentley, Judith. "Dear Friend": Thomas Garrett & William Still: Collaborators on the Underground Railroad. New York: Cobblehill Books, 1997.

Ferris, Jeri. Go Free and Die: A Story About Harriet Tubman. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda, 1988.

Roberts, Russell. Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery. San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books, 2000.

Stein, R. Conrad. The Underground Railroad. New York: Children's Press, 1997.

African American Perspectives, 1818-1907

Of general interest:

Duster, Alfreda M., ed. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

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

Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1972.

McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 1991.

Especially for younger readers:

Hamilton, Virginia. Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom. N.Y.: Knopf, 1993.

Klots, Steve. Ida Wells-Barnett. N.Y.: Chelsea House, 1994.

Medeavis, Angela Shelf. This Far to Freedom: A History of African Americans. N.Y.: Atheneum, 1993.

Meltzer, Milton, ed. Frederick Douglass: In His Own Words. N.Y.: Harcourt Brace, 1995.

African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

Of general interest:

Badger, Reid. A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Floyd, Samuel A. The Power of Black Music: Interpreting its History from Africa to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Levy, Lester S. Grace Notes in American History: Popular Sheet Music from 1820-1900. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967.

Levy, Lester S. Picture the Songs: Lithographs from the Sheet Music of Nineteenth Century America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

Morgan, Thomas L. and William Barlow. From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: An Illustrated History of African American Popular Music from 1895 to 1930. Washington, D.C.: Elliott & Clark, 1992.

Peterson, Bernard L. A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Especially for younger readers:

Igus, Toyomi. I See the Rhythm. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press, 1998.

Medearis, Angela. Music. New York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1997.

Rediger, Pat. Great African-Americans in Music. New York: Crabtree, 1996.

After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor

Of general interest:

Berry, Henry. This is no drill: living memories of the attack on Pearl Harbor. New York: Berkley Books, c1992. [Catalog Record]

Prange, Gordon. At dawn we slept: the untold story of Pearl Harbor. 60th anniversary ed. New York: Penguin Books, [2001] [Catalog Record]

Toland, John. Infamy and its aftermath. New York: Anchor Books, 1992. [Catalog Record]

Van Der Vat, Dan. Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy - An Illustrated History. New York: Basic Books, c2001. [Catalog Record]

Especially for younger readers:

Allen, Thomas B. Remember Pearl Harbor : Japanese And American Survivors Tell Their Stories. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, c2001. [Catalog Record]

Krensky, Stephen. Pearl Harbor. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. [Catalog Record]

Lord, Walter. Day of Infamy. New York: Holt [1957] [Catalog Record]

Taylor, Theodore. Air Raid--Pearl Harbor!: The Story of December 7, 1941. 1st Gulliver Books pbk. ed. San Diego: Harcourt, 2001. [Catalog Record]

Alexander Graham Bell Papers, 1862-1939

Of general interest:

Bruce, Robert V. Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. Reprint, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Fisher, Leonard Everett. Alexander Graham Bell. N. Y.: Atheneum Books, 1998.

Grosvenor, Edwin S. and Morgan Wesson. Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone. N. Y.: Harry Abrams, 1997.

Matthews, Tom. The World and All That's In It: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1999.

Especially for younger readers:

Davidson, Margaret. The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the Telephone. Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens Publishing, 1997.

Parker, Steve. Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone. N. Y.: Chelsea House, 1995.

Pasachoff, Naomi E. Alexander Graham Bell: Making Connections. N. Y.: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Sandler, Martin. Inventors: A Library of Congress Book. N. Y.: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996.

America at Work, America at Leisure, 1894-1915

Of general interest:

Musser, Charles. The Emergence of Film: The American Screen to 1907. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Niver, Kemp. Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress. Washington: Library of Congress, 1985.

Robinson, David. From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film. N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Especially for younger readers:

Alter, Judy. Amusement Parks: Roller Coasters, Ferris Wheels, and Cotton Candy. N.Y.: Watts, 1997.

Levinson, Nancy Smiler. Thomas Alva Edison: Great Inventor. N.Y.: Scholastic, 1996.

Sandler, Martin W. Inventors: A Library of Congress Book. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1996.

America Singing: Nineteenth Century Song Sheets

Of general interest:

Finson, Jon. The Voices That Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth American Popular Song. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Hamm, Charles. Yesterdays: Popular Song in America. New York: W.W. Norton, 1979.

Kinn, Karen. That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980.

Tawa, Nicolas. The Way to Tin Pan Alley: American Popular Song, 1866-1910. New York: Schirmer Books, 1990.

Especially for younger readers:

Hopkins, Lee Bennett, ed. Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

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

An American Ballroom Companion, ca. 1490-1920

Of general interest:

Aldrich, Elizabeth, and Mina Mulvey. From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in Nineteenth Century Dance. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1992.

Dulles, Foster Rhea. A History of Recreation: American Learns to Play. 2nd ed. N.Y.: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1965.

Malnig, Julie. Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance. N.Y.: New York University Press, 1995.

Stephenson, Richard M. The Complete Book of Ballroom Dancing. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1992.

Especially for younger readers:

Bussell, Darcey. The Younger Dancer. N.Y.: DK Publishing, 1994.

Grau, Andree. Dance. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Thomas, Annabel. Ballet & Dance. An Usborne Guide. London: Usbourne, 1992.

American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936

Of general interest:

Hays, Samuel P. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.

Mitman, Gregg. The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Tobey, Ronald. Saving the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology, 1895-1955. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Worster, Donald. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. 2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Especially for younger readers:

Brandenburg, Jim. An American Safari: Adventures on the North American Prairie. New York: Walker, 1997

Suzuki, David T. Looking at the Environment. New York: Wiley, 1992.

Vauhan, Jenny. Grasslands. Lexington, Mass.: Schoolhouse Press, 1986.

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest

Of general interest:

Frazier, Patrick and the Library of Congress Publishing Office, eds. Many Nations: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Indian and Alaska Native Peoples of the United States. Washington: Library of Congress, 1996.

Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest. Abridged Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971.

Ruby, Robert H. and John A. Brown. Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.

Schwantes, Carlos A. The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

Especially for younger readers:

Anderson, Madelyn Klein. North American Indian Games. N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 2000.

Hakim, Joy. The First Americans. Second Edition. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Philip, Neil. ed. A Braid of Lives: Native American Childhood. N.Y.: Clarion Books, 2000.

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920

Of general interest:

Carr, Ethan. Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Hall, Lee. Olmsted's America: An "Unpractical Man" and his Vision of Civilization. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.

Major, Judith K. To Live in the New World: A.J. Downing and American Landscape Gardening. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997.

Zapatka, Christian. The American Landscape. N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.

Especially for younger readers:

Dunlap, Julie. Parks for the People: A Story About Frederick Law Olmsted. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1994.

Glenn, Patricia Brown. Discover America's Favorite Architects. N.Y.: John S. Wiley & Sons, 1996.

King, Penny. Landscapes. N.Y.: Crabtree, 1996.

American Leaders Speak, 1918-1920

Of general interest:

Collier, Peter and David Horowitz. The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty. N.Y.: Holt, 1976.

Ferrell, Robert H. Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921. N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1985.

Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1980.

McCoy, Donald R. Calvin Coolidge. N.Y.: Macmillan, 1967.

Ravitch, Diane. The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1990.

Suriano, Gregory R., ed. Great American Speeches. N.Y.: Gramercy Books, 1993.

For younger readers:

Clare, John D., ed. First World War. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.

Jantzen, Steven L. Hooray for Peace, Hurrah for War: The United States During World War I. N.Y.: Facts on File, 1991.

Leavell, J. Perry. Woodrow Wilson. N.Y.: Chelsea House, 1987.

American Life Histories, 1936-1940

Of general interest:

Banks, Ann, ed. First-Person America. N.Y.: Knopf, 1980.

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The National Experience. N.Y.: Random House, 1965.

Federal Writers' Project. These Are Our Lives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939.

Leech, Margaret. In the Days of McKinley. N.Y.: Harper, 1959.

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

Rae, Noel, ed. Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Book of Firsthand Accounts of Life in America, 1600-1900. N.Y.: Penguin, 1996.

Especially for younger readers:

Greenberg, Judith E. and Helen Carey McKeever. A Pioneer Woman's Memoir. N.Y.: Watts, 1995.

Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire. N.Y.: Scholastic, 1995.

Sandler, Martin W. Pioneers: A Library of Congress Book. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1994.

Shelby, Anne. Homeplace. N.Y.: Orchard, 1995.

American Revolution and Its Era, 1750-1789

Of general interest:

Carnes, Mark C., Garraty, John, and Patrick Williams. Mapping America's Past: A Historical Atlas. N.Y.: Henry Holt and Co., 1996.

Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Keegan, John. Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Quinn, Arthur. A New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of America to the Fall of Quebec. London: Faber and Faber, 1994.

Especially for younger readers:

Chambers, Catherine. All About Maps. N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1998.

Hakim, Joy. From Colonies to Country. Second Edition. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Mayer, T.W. The Caribbean and its People. N.Y.: Thomson Learning, 1995.

Silverman, Jerry, ed. Songs and Stories from the American Revolution. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1994.

An American Time Capsule

Of general interest:

Boorstin, Daniel J., ed. An American Primer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

Pomfret, John E. Great Americans Speak: Facsimiles of Original Editions, Selected and Annotated. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1954.

Ravitch, Diane, ed. The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1990.

Ricks, Christopher, and William L. Vance, eds. The Faber Book of America. London: Faber and Faber, 1992.

Especially for younger readers:

Brill, Marlene Targ. Let Women Vote! Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1996.

Grant, R.G. The American Revolution. N.Y.: Thomson Learning, 1995.

Kallen, Stuart A. The Gettysburg Address. Edina, MN: Abdo & Daughters, 1994.

Pascoe, Elaine. First Facts about the Presidents. Woodbridge, CT: Blackbirch Press, 1996.

American Variety Stage, 1870-1920

Of general interest:

Henderson, Amy and Dwight Blocker Bower. Red, Hot & Blue: A Smithsonian Salute to the American Musical. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

Lynes, Russell. The Lively Audience: A Social History of the Visual and Performing Arts in America, 1890-1950. N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1985.

Silverman, Kenneth. Houdini! The Career of Ehrich Weiss: American Self-Liberator, Europe's Eclipsing Sensation, World's Handcuff King & Prison Breaker. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1996.

Snyder, Robert W. The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Especially for younger readers:

Ardley, Neil. Music. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

Gish, Lillian, and Selma G. Lanes. An Actor's Life for Me! N.Y.: Viking, 1987.

Hakim, Joy. Reconstruction and Reform. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Venezia, Mike. George Gershwin. Chicago: Children's Press, 1994.

America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotypes, 1839-1862

Of general interest:

Rinhart, Floyd. The American Daguerreotype. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1981.

Rudisill, Richard. Mirror Image: The Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971.

Shaw, Renata, comp. A Century of Photographs 1846-1946. Selected from the Collections of the Library of Congress. Washington: Library of Congress, 1980.

Wood, John, ed. America and the Daguerreotype. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991.

Especially for younger readers:

Lowe, Jacques. Looking at Photographs: People. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996.

Sandler, Martin W. Inventors: A Library of Congress Book. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1996.

Of general interest:

Goldberger, Paul. On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Postmodern Age. N.Y.: Times Books, 1983.

McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf, 1995.

Poppeliers, John C., et. al. What Style Is It? A Guide to American Architecture. Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, 1983.

Stern, Robert A.M. Pride of Place: Building the American Dream. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.

Especially for younger readers:

Glenn, Patricia Brown. Discover America's Favorite Architects. N.Y.: John S. Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Morris, Ann. Houses and Homes. N.Y.: Mulberry Books, 1992.

Wilkinson, Philip. Building. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Of general interest:

Bourne, Russell. Americans on the Move: A History of Waterways, Railways, and Highways. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1995.

Hales, Peter B. William H. Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.

Jackson, William Henry. Time Exposure: The Autobiography of William Henry Jackson. N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1940.

Especially for younger readers:

Blumberg, Rhonda. Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1996.

Madgwick, Wendy. Citymaze! A Collection of Amazing City Mazes. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1994.

Sandler, Martin W. Inventors. A Library of Congress Book. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1996.