California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900

Of general interest:

Backes, Clarus. Growing Up Western. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

Holliday, J.S. The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience. N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

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

Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Especially for younger readers:

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

Freedman, Russell. Children of the Wild West. N.Y.: Clarion Books, 1983.

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

California Gold: Folk Music from the Thirties, 1938-1940

Of general interest:

Baggelaar, Kristin and Donald Milton. Folk Music: More Than a Song. NY: Crowell, 1976.

Lawless, Ray M. Folksingers and Folksongs in America: A Handbook of Biography, Bibliography, and Discography. New Rev. Ed. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Lomax, Alan, and Sidney Robertson Cowell. American Folk Song and Folklore. St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Scholarly Press, 1977 (c1942).

Starr, Kevin. Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Especially for younger readers:

Krull, Kathleen. Gonna Sing My Head Off! American Folk Songs for Children. N.Y.: Knopf, 1992.

Seeger, Ruth Crawford. American Folk Songs for Children. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1948.r

The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925

Of general interest:

Bergheim, Laura. The Washington Historical Atlas: Who Did What When and Where in the Nation's Capital. Rockville, MD: Woodbine House, 1992.

Footner, Hulbert. Rivers of the Eastern Shore: Seventeen Maryland Rivers. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1996. (First published in 1944)

Gutheim, Frederick. The Potomac. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. (First published in 1949).

Michener, James A. Chesapeake. N.Y.: Random House, 1978.

Especially for younger readers:

Bell, David Owen. Awesome Chesapeake: A Kid's Guide to the Bay. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.

Evelyn, Douglas E. and Paul Dickson. On This Spot: Picturing the Past in Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 1999.

Munro, Roxie. The Inside-Outside Book of Washington, D.C. N.Y.: SeaStar Books, 2001.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation, 1774-1873

Of general interest:

Hoffer, Peter. Law and People in Colonial America. Rev. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Knight, Alfred H. The Life of the Law: the People and Cases That Have Shaped Our Society from King Alfred to Rodney King. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Novak, William J. The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Rakove, Jack N. Original Meaning: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. N.Y.: Knopf, 1997.

Especially for younger readers:

Ciment, James. Law and Order. N.Y.: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.

Fritz, Jean. The Great Little Madison. N.Y.: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1989.

Smith, Carter, ed. The Revolutionary War: A Sourcebook on Colonial America. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1991.

Spier, Peter. We the People: The Constitution of the United States of America. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.

Weber, Michael. Our Congress. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1994.

The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925

Of general interest:

Cox, Michael J. and Ratliff, Joe S. Church Planting in the African-American Community. Valley Forge, PA : Judson Press, 2002.

Duitsman-Cornelius, Janet. Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1999.

Frey, Sylvia R. and Wood, Betty. Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Johnson, Alonzo and Jersild, Paul (Editors). 'Ain't Gonna Lay My 'Ligion Down': African American Religion in the South. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1996.

McMillen, Sally Gregory. To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865-1915. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

Especially for younger readers:

Bolden, Tonya. Rock of Ages: A Tribute to the Black Church. Gregory Christie (Illustrator). New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Lutz, Norma Jean. The History of the Black Church. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 2001.

Civil War Maps

Of general interest:

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

Nelson, Christopher. Mapping the Civil War: Featuring Rare Maps from the Library of Congress. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 1992.

Shively, Julie. The Ideals Guide to Civil War Places. Nashville, Tenn.: Ideals Publications Incorporated, 1999.

Ward, Geoffrey C. The Civil War: An Illustrated History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Especially for younger readers:

Chambers, Catherine. All About Maps. New York: Franklin Watts, 1998.

Moore, Kay. If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1994.

Murphy, Jim. The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War. New York: Clarion Books, 1990.

Ransom, Candice F. Children of the Civil War. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1998.

Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865

Of general interest:

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

Meredith, Roy. Mathew Brady's Portrait of an Era. N.Y.: W. W. Norton, 1982.

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

Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels. N.Y.: David McKay Co., 1974.

Ward, Geoffrey C. The Civil War: An Illustrated History.N.Y.: Knopf, 1990.

Especially for younger readers:

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

Meredith, Roy. Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady. N.Y.: Dover, 1974.

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

Sullivan, George. Mathew Brady: His Life and Photographs. N.Y.: Cobblehill Books, 1994.

Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society

Of general interest:

Campi, James. Civil War battlefields then & now. San Diego, Calif.: Thunder Bay Press, 2002. [Catalog record]

Gibboney, Douglas Lee. Tragic glory: a concise, illustrated history of the Civil War. 2nd rev., updated ed. Shippensburg, Pa.: Burd Street Press, 2002. [Catalog record]

Marten, James. Civil War America: voices from the home front. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2003. [Catalog record]

Mitchell, Reid. The American Civil War, 1861-1865. Harlow, England; New York: Longman, 2001. [Catalog record]

Phillips, David L. Chronicles of the Civil War: an illustrated history of the War between the States. New York, NY: MetroBooks, 1999. [Catalog record]

Especially for younger readers:

Arnold, James R. Divided in two: the road to Civil War, 1861. 1st American ed. Minneapolis, Minn.: Lerner Publications Co., 2002. [Catalog record]

Corrick, James A. The Civil War. San Diego: Lucent Books/Thomson Gale, 2003. [Catalog record]

Smolinski, Diane. Key battles of the Civil War. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2001. [Catalog record]

Stefoff, Rebecca. The Civil War and Reconstruction: 1863-1877. New York: Benchmark Books, 2003. [Catalog record]

The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

Of general interest:

Ferrell, Robert H. The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1998.

Haynes, John Earl, ed. Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era: Essays on the History of the 1920s. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1998.

Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

Rubin, Joan Shelley. The Making of Middlebrow Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Especially for younger readers:

Hakim, Joy. War, Peace, and All That Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Kent, Zachary. Calvin Coolidge: Thirteenth President of the United States. Chicago: Children's Press, 1988.

Stevens, Rita. Calvin Coolidge: Thirtieth President of the United States. Ada, OK: Garret Educational Corp., 1990.

Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789

Of general interest:

Collier, Christopher, and James Lincoln Collier. Decision at Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787. Random House, 1986.

Kammen, Michael. A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American History. Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

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

Wills, Garry. Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978.

Especially for younger readers:

Bober, Natalie S. Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution. N.Y.: Atheneum, 1995.

Fritz, Jean. The Great Little Madison. N.Y.: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1989.

Meltzer, Milton. Thomas Jefferson: the Revolutionary Aristocrat. N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1991.

Creative Americans: Portraits by Van Vechten, 1932-1964

Of general interest:

Byrd, Rudolph P., ed. Generations in Black and White: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.

Kellner, Bruce. Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.

Lewis, David L. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. N.Y.: Viking, 1994.

Watson, Steven. The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930. N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1995.

Especially for younger readers:

Butterfield, Moira and Susan Peach. Photography. London: Usborne Publishing, 1991.

Hakim, Joy. War, Peace, and All That Jazz. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Lowe, Jacques. Looking at Photographs: People. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994.