Band Music from the Civil War Era

Of general interest:

Finson, Jon. The Voices That Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth Century Popular Song. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Hall, Harry H. A Johnny Reb Band from Salem. Raleigh, N.C.: The North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, 1963.

Hamm, Charles. Yesterdays: Popular Song in America. N.Y.: W.W. Norton Co., 1979.

Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank, the Common Soldier of the Union. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.

Especially for younger readers:

Ardley, Neil. Music. N.Y.: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.

Dearling, Robert. Woodwind & Brass Instruments. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2000.

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

Baseball Cards, 1887-1914

Of general interest:

Boyd, Brendan C., and Fred C. Harris. The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubble Gum Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973.

Green, Paul M., and Kit Kiefer. The Top 100: The Best Baseball Cards to Own, Ranked and Rated for the Collector and Investor. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1990.

Kirk, Troy. Collector's Guide to Baseball Cards. Radnor, PA.: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1990.

Especially for younger readers:

Gutman, Dan. Honus and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. N.Y.: Avon Books, 1997.

Ritter, Laurence S. The Story of Baseball. Rev. ed. N.Y." Beech Tree, 1990.

Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943

Of general interest:

Bastin, Bruce. Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Jones, Lewis Wade. Cold Rebellion: the South's Oligarchy in Revolt. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1962.

Work, John Wesley III. American Negro Songs. N.Y.: Howell, Soskin & Co., 1940.

Work, John Wesley III. Jubilee. N. Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.

Especially for younger readers:

Armentrout, David. Jazz and Blues. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Corp., 1999

Battle-Lavert, Gwendolyn. The Music in Derrick's Heart. N.Y.: Holiday House, 2000.

England, Linda. The Old Cotton Blues. N.Y.: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1998.

Hughes, Langston. The Dream Keeper and Other Poems: Including Seven Additional Poems. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938.

Of general interest:

Andrews, William L., and Henry Louis Gates, eds. Slave Narratives. N.Y.: Library of America, 2000.

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, 1998.

Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.

Especially for younger readers:

Diouf, Sylviane A. Growing Up in Slavery. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 2001.

McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino. Sisters Against Slavery: A Story About Sarah and Angelina Grimke. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1999.

Meltzer, Milton. The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words, 1619-1983. N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1984.

Buckaroos in Paradise,1945-1982

Of general interest:

Hulse, James W. The Silver State: Nevada's Heritage Reinterpreted. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1991.

Marshall, Howard W. Paradise Valley, Nevada: The People and Buildings of an American Place. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995.

Marshall, Howard W. and Richard E. Ahlborn. Buckaroos in Paradise: Cowboy Life in Northern Nevada. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

Savage, William W. Cowboy Life: Reconstructing an American Myth. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975.

Especially for younger readers:

Duncan, Dayton. People of the West. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

Freedman, Russell. Cowboys of the Wild West. N.Y.: Clarion Books, 1985.

Murdoch, David H. Cowboy. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

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

Built in America, 1933-Present

Of general interest:

Historic America: Buildings, Structures, and Sites. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1983.

Peatross, C. Ford. "A Rich Vein in the Mother Lode: HABS in the Library of Congress." In Historic America: Buildings, Structures and Sites, Washington, D.C., 1983: 241-277.

Webster, Richard J. Philadelphia Preserved. Introduction by Charles E. Peterson. Second edition. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.

Especially for younger readers:

D'Alelio, Jane. I Know That Building! Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, 1989.

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

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

Wilson, Forrest. What It Feels Like To Be A Building. Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, 1988.