Bibliography for History Posts on This Blog

 

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Bibliography

 

VERY EARLY in the process of taking down information, and dividing it by year in American history – on or about December 7, 2021, I managed to erase my bibliography. Since I throw most paperbacks away, after taking notes, I am unable to supply sources for every quote. 

Otherwise, if I follow a quote or section of material with the notation: (10/21-23), it means the material is from BOOK 10, pp. 21-23. Books are numbered with no rhyme nor reason, as I finished with them. 

I also supply links to all newspaper and magazine articles, and old books, which can be found online. 

In some rare cases, I have clippings or parts of stories I saved long ago, and cannot identify the source. I mark those accordingly.

 

Finally, where you see: 

NOTE TO TEACHERS: I have suggested ideas I believe might work in a classroom. Many I used myself, during 33 years in teaching. For example, I realized, the last time I visited California, that the tallest redwood trees – which reach 360 feet – are exactly as tall as a football field, including both endzones, stood up on end. So, you could use this picture in your classroom, to make that point. Almost all pictures included in my posts are out of copyright, or I took them myself. 

Feel free to use any you want. 

My wife with the redwood.

 

Ammon, Harry, James Monroe: The Quest for American Identity (McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y.: 1971) BOOK 24 

Andrews, E. Benjamin, History of the United States, Vol. II, Vol. IV (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, N.Y.: 1925) BOOK 2 (II) and BOOK 4 (IV) 

Andrews, E. Benjamin, The History of the Last Quarter-Century om the United States, 1870-1895 Vol. I (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, N.Y.: 1896) BOOK 11 

Bosworth, Allan R., America’ Concentration Camps (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, N.Y.: 1967) BOOK 500 

Bowen, Ezra, ed. This Fabulous Century, 1930 to 1940 (Time-Life Books, New York, N.Y.: 1969) BOOK 1129 

Bowers, Claude G., The Tragic Era: The Revolution after Lincoln (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts: 1929, 1957) BOOK 105 

(Bowers’ book is execrable: Racism masquerading as history.)

 Cain, Ella M., The Story of Bodie (Fearon Publishers, San Francisco, California: 1956) BOOK 59 

Carson, W.E., Mexico: The Wonderland of the South (Macmillan Company, New York, New York: 1914) BOOK 16 

 

Bodie, California - ghost town.

Carter, Paul A., editor, The Uncertain World of Normalcy: The 1920s (Jerome S. Ozer, Publisher Inc., New York, New York: 1971) BOOK 155 

Catton, Bruce, A Stillness at Appomattox BOOK 1122 

Catton, Bruce, Mr. Lincoln’s Army (Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York: 1951) BOOK 62 

Catton, Bruce, Glory Road (Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York: 1952) BOOK 63 

 

Museum at Gettysburg.

Coffin, Charles, Building a Nation (1882) BOOK 72 

Coe, Fanny E., Makers of the Nation (1914) BOOK 73 

Daniels, Roger, Concentration Camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II (The Dryden Press, Hinsdale, Illinois: 1971) BOOK 104 

The copyright to Daniels’ book was held by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

 

Depew, Chauncey M., My Memories of Eighty Years (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, N.Y.: 1923) BOOK 123 

DeVoto, Bernard, The Year of Decision: 1846 (Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1943) BOOK 5 

Douglas, Henry Kyd, I Rode With Stonewall (Fawcett Publications, Inc., Greenwich, Conn.: 1961) BOOK 20 

Earle, Alice Morse, Child Life in Colonial Days (The Macmillan Company, New York, N.Y.: 1915) BOOK 226 

Ellis, Edward, The Youth’s History of the United States (1893) BOOK 32 

Ellis, Edward S., Library of American History (The Charles Barrett Co.: 1905) Last copyright listed is for The Jones Brothers, Publishing Co. BOOK 33 

Empey, Guy, First Call: Guide Posts to Berlin (G.P. Putnam’s Sons: New York, N.Y.: 1918) BOOK 18 

Finley, Ruth E., The Lady of Godey’s: Sarah Joseph Hale (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, Pa.: 1931) BOOK 113 

Franklin, Penelope, Private Pages: Diaries of American Women 1830s – 1970s (Ballantine Books, New York, New York 1986) BOOK 25 

Freeman, Douglas Southall, Lee, abridged by Richard Harwell, (Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, New York: 1961, 1991) BOOK 22 

Friendly, Fred, Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control (Random House, New York, N.Y.: 1967) BOOK 34 

Goldman, Eric F., The Crucial Decade – And After: America, 1946-1960, (notes from my old paperback edition; will have to look for the copyright information) BOOK 1 

Halberstam, David, The Best and the Brightest (Random House, New York, N.Y.: 1969, 1971) BOOK 491 

Halle, Louis J., The Cold War as History (Harper & Row, New York, N.Y.: 1975) BOOK 75 

Halleck, Reuben Post, History of American Literature (American Book Company, Cincinnati, Ohio: 1911) BOOK 30 

Handlin, Oscar, Boston’s Immigrants: A Study in Acculturations (Atheneum, New York, N.Y.: 1974) BOOK 21 

Hartwell, E.C., Story Hour Readings: Fourth Year (American Book Company, Cincinnati, Ohio: 1921) BOOK 35 

The Irish with their Catholic faith were seen as a threat.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlett Letter and Selected Tales, edited by Thomas E. Connolly (Penguin Books, New York, New York: 1970) BOOK 7 

Hendricks, Mrs. Thomas A., A Popular History of Indiana (The Indianapolis Sentinel Co., Indianapolis, Indiana: 1891) BOOK 91 

Holley, Marietta, Samantha Among the Brethren (Funk & Wagnalls, New York, New York: 1890) BOOK 15 

Keesing’s Research Report, Race Relations in the USA, 1954-1968 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, New York: 1970) BOOK 27 

Lancaster, Bruce and Plumb, J. H., The American Heritage Book of the Revolution (Dell Publishing, New York, N.Y.: 1958) BOOK 48 

Least Heat Moon, William, Blue Highways (Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1982) BOOK 101 

Least Heat Moon, William, PrairyErth (Houghton Mifflin: Boston, Massachusetts, 1991) BOOK 100 

Lief, Alfred, Harvey Firestone: Free Man of Enterprise (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, New York: 1951) BOOK 23 

Madison, James, Notes of the Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (W.W. Norton and Company, New York, N.Y.: 1987) BOOK 87 

 

Madison and the others had a good plan for government.

McMaster, John Bach, A Brief History of the United States (American Book Company, New York, New York: 1907) BOOK 97 

McLaughlin, Andrew; A History of the American Nation (1911) BOOK 56 

Mencken, H. L., The Vintage Mencken (gathered by Alistair Cooke) (Vintage Books, New York, New York: 1956) BOOK 49 

Miller, John C., The First Frontier: Life in Colonial America (Dell Publishing, Laurel Edition: New York, N.Y.: 1975) BOOK 300 

Morris, Charles, The Greater Republic (John C. Winston & Co.: Philadelphia, 1899) BOOK 99 

Morrison, Toni, Beloved (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York: 1987) BOOK 57 

Murphy, Elizabeth Taft (editor: Maryjane Hooper Tonn). I Remember. Do You? A Nostalgic Look at Yesterday: From the Twenties – to the Fifties (Ideals Publishing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 1973) BOOK 301 

Northrup, Henry Davenport, Life and Deeds of General Sherman: Including the Story of His March to the Sea (J. H. Moore & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.: 1891) BOOK 36 

Norton, Mary Beth, Founding Mothers and Fathers (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, N.Y.: 1996) BOOK 47 

O’Brien, Tim, The Things They Carried (Penguin Books, New York, New York: 1990) BOOK 46 

O’Rourke, P.J., Parliament of Whores (Vintage Books, New York, New York: 1991) BOOK 88 

Post, C. C., Driven from Sea to Sea: Just a Campin’ (J.E. Downey & Co., Chicago, Ill.: 1884) BOOK 37 

Ridpath, John Clark, various books, somewhat jumbled in my notes, including Ridpath’s History of the World, Vol. I, Vol. VII, Vol. VIII, Vol. IX (Jones Brothers, Cincinnati, Ohio: 1907); The Great Races of Mankind (not sure of volume or date of publication), With the World’s People (Jones Brothers, Cincinnati, Ohio: 1912) BOOK 38 

Ridpath, John Clark, People’s History of the United States (Historical Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1895) BOOK 1219 

Sadlier, Sadlier’s Excelsior Studies in the History of the United States for Schools (New York, New York: William H. Sadlier: 1879 and 1896 by William H. Sadlier; 1907 and 1910 by Annie M. Sadlier) BOOK 19 

Smith, Paige, Daughters of the Promised Land (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Mass.: 1970) BOOK 45 

Spofford, Harriet Prescott, Stepping-Stones to Happiness (The Christian Herald, New York, N.Y.: 1897) BOOK 39 

Sullivan, Robert (managing editor), The 1960s (Life Books, New York, New York: 2014) BOOK 60

 

A little 60's style.

Tarkington, Booth, Seventeen (Grosset & Dunlap, New York, New York: 1915, 1916) BOOK 17 

Taylor, James Wickes, The Diary of James Wickes Taylor, ed. James Taylor Dunn (The Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio: 1950) BOOK 102 

Taylor, William O., With Custer on the Little Big Horn (Penguin Books USA: New York, New York, 1996) BOOK 76 

Terkel, Studs, The Good War ( New York, New York, Pantheon Books:1984) BOOK 103 

Thayer, William M., Marvels of the New West (Henry Bill, Norwich, Connecticut: 1890) BOOK 6 

Van Loon, Hendrik, America (Tudor Publishing Co.: 1927) BOOK 124 

Walworth, Arthur, Woodrow Wilson (Penguin Books or Pelican Books, Baltimore, Maryland, 1969) BOOK 10 

Whitlock, Brand, Her Infinite Variety (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana: 1904) BOOK 9 

Flapper style.

Whittier, John Greenleaf, The Complete Poetical Works (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Cambridge, Mass: 1892)  BOOK 31 

Wolfskill, George, Happy Days Are Here Again! (Dryden Press, Hinsdale, Illinois: 1974) BOOK 1127