Map Collections: 1500-2004

Of general interest:

Brown, Lloyd A. The Story of Maps. N.Y.: Dover, 1979.

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

Davis, Kenneth C. Don't Know Much About Geography. N.Y.: Avon, 1992.

Library of Congress. Geography and Maps: An Illustrated Guide. Washington, Library of Congress, 1996.

Monmonier, Mark. Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy. N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.

Especially for younger readers:

Bacon, Josephine. The Doubleday Atlas of the United States of America. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1990.

Clouse, Nancy L. Puzzle Maps USA. N.Y.: Henry Hold and Co., 1990.

Glickman, Jane. Cool Geography. N.Y.: Price Stern Sloan, 1998.

Knowlton, Jack. Maps & Globes. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1985.

Mapping the National Parks

Of general interest:

Bartlett, Richard A. Yellowstone: A Wilderness Besieged. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985.

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. 3rd ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Runte, Alfred. National Parks: The American Experience. 2nd ed., rev. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Sellars, Richard West. Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Tilden, Freeman. The National Parks. Revised ed., New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.

Wilkins, Thurman. John Muir: Apostle of Nature. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

Especially for younger readers:

Kent, Deborah. Yellowstone National Park. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1994.

Knowlton, Jack. Maps and Globes. New York: Children's Press, 1997.

Tesar, Jenny E. American's Top 10 National Parks. Woodbridge, Conn.: Blackbirch Press, 1998.

Weber, Michael. Our National Parks. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1994.

Whitman, Sylvia. This Land is Your Land. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1994.

Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870

Of general interest:

Liebenow, J. Gus. Liberia: the Quest for Democracy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Shick, Tom W. Behold the Promised Land: The History of Afro-American Settler Society in Nineteenth-Century Liberia. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

Staudenraus, P.J. The African Colonization Movement, 1816-1865. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961; reprint, New York: Octogon Books, 1980.

Especially for younger readers:

Levy, Patricia. Liberia. New York: Times Books International, 1998.

Sullivan, Jo M. Liberia in Pictures. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1988.

Music for the Nation, 1870-1885

Of general interest:

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

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

Linn, Daren. That Half-Barbaric Twang: the Banjo in American Popular Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980.

Mellers, Wilfrid. Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Especially for younger readers:

Bates, Katharie Lee. O Beautiful, For Spacious Skies. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994.

Mitchell, Barbara. America, I Hear You: A Story about George Gershwin.
Minneapolis: Carolrhoda, 1987.

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

Spier, Peter. The Star-Spangled Banner. N.Y.: Dell, 1973.

Weiss, Nicki, ed. If You're Happy and You Know It: Eighteen Story Songs. N.Y.: Greenwillow, 1987.

Music for the Nation: ca. 1820-1860

Of general interest:

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

Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and its Business: The First Four Hundred Years, Volume 2. From 1790 to 1909. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Catalog Record

Tawa, Nicholas. High Minded and Low Down: Music in the Lives of Americans, 1800-1861. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. Catalog Record

Wenzel, Lynn and Carol J. Binkowski. I Hear America Singing: A Nostalgic Tour of Popular Sheet Music. New York: Crown Publishing, 1989. Catalog Record

Especially for younger readers:

Morris, Berenice Robinson. American popular music: the growing years, 1800-1900. New York: F. Watts, 1972. Catalog Record

Press, David Paul. A Multicultural Portrait of America’s Music. Bellmore, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1994. Catalog Record