Turner, Robyn. Dorthea Lange. Boston.: Little, Brown & Company, 1994.
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American LIFE HISTORIES:
Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 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.
Top of Page | More About American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project
Early MOTION PICTURES:
Inside an American Factory - The Westinghouse
Works, 1904
- Of general interest:
- Licht, Walter. Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
- Nelson, Daniel. Managers and Workers: Origins of the Twentieth-Century
Factory System in the United States, 1880-1920. Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
- Prout, Henry G. A Life of George Westinghouse. N.Y.: The
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1921. Reprinted by Arno
Press, 1972.
- Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture &
Society in the Gilded Age. N.Y.: Hill and Wang, 1982.
- Especially for younger readers:
- Colman, Penny. Strike: The Bitter Struggle of American Workers
from Colonial Times to the Present. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook
Press, 1995.
- Levinson, Nancy Smiler. Thomas Alva Edison: Great Inventor.
N.Y.: Scholastic, 1996.
- Ravage, Barbara. George Westinghouse: A Genius for Invention.
Austin: Raintree-Steck-Vaughn, 1997.
- Sandler, Martin W. Immigrants. A Library of Congress Book.
N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1995.
Top of Page | More About Early Motion Pictures: Inside an American Factory
Early MOTION PICTURES:
New York - The Life of a City, 1898-1906
- Of general interest:
- Baldwin, Neil. Edison: Inventing the Century. N.Y.: Hyperion,
1995.
- Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime. N.Y.: Random House, 1975.
- Kasson, John F. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn
of the Century. N.Y.: Hill & Wang, 1978.
- Niver, Kemp R. 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:
- Adler, David A. Thomas Alva Edison: Great Inventor. N.Y.:
Holiday House, 1990.
- Lawlor, Veronica, ed. I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories
from the Ellis Island Oral History Project. N.Y.: Viking,
1995.
- Sandler, Martin W. Immigrants: A Library of Congress Book.
N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1995.
Top of Page | More About Early Motion Pictures: New York - The Life of a City, 1898-1906
Early MOTION PICTURES:
President McKinley and the Buffalo World's Fair
- Of general interest:
- Leech, Margaret. In the Days of McKinley. N.Y.: Harper, 1959.
- Musser, Charles. The Emergence of Film: The American Screen to 1907. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
- Rydell, Robert W. All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
- Especially for younger readers:
- Hakim, Joy. An Age of Extremes. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Smith, Carter, ed. Presidents of a World Power: A Sourcebook on the U.S. Presidency. American Albums from the Library of Congress. Brookfield, Conn.: The Millbrook Press, 1993.
Top of Page | More About Early Motion Pictures: President McKinley and the Buffalo World's Fair, 1901
Early MOTION PICTURES:
San Francisco Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire
- Of general interest:
- Bronson, William. The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1986.
- Hansen, Gladys C. and Emmet Condon. San Francisco: Cameron and Co., 1989
- Lewis, Oscar. San Francico: Mission to Metropolis. 2nd. ed. San Diego, Calif.: Howell-North Book, 1980.
- Especially for younger readers:
- Kudlinski, Kathleen V. Earthquake! A Story of Old San Francisco. N.Y.: Viking, 1993.
- Levine, Ellen. If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake. N.Y.: Scholastic, 1992.
- Movies. N.Y.: Scholastic, 1996.
Top of Page | More About Early Motion Pictures: San Francisco Before and After the Earthquake, 1897-1916
Creative Americans:
PORTRAITS BY CARL 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.
Top of Page | More About Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten
By Popular Demand:
PORTRAITS OF THE PRESIDENTS AND FIRST LADIES, 1789-Present
- Of general interest:
- Couch, Ernie, comp. Presidential Trivia. Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge
Hill Press, 1996.
- Dalleck, Robert. Hail to the Chief: The Making
and Unmaking of American Presidents. N.Y.: Hyperion, 1996.
- Hyland, Pat. Presidential Libraries and Museums: An Illustrated
Guide. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1995..
- Klapthor, Margaret Brown. The First Ladies. 8th ed. Washington,
D.C.: White House Historical Association, 1995.
- Mayo, Edith P., ed. The Smithsonian Book of First Ladies.
N.Y.: Henry Holt, 1996.
- McDonald, Forrest. The American Presidency: An Intellectual
History. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1994.
- Sayler, James, comp. Presidents of the United States: Their
Written Measure. A Bibliography. Washington: Library of Congress,
1996.
- Wilson, Robert A., ed. Character Above All: Ten Presidents
from FDR to George Bush. N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
- For younger readers:
- Barnes, Peter W. and Cheryl Barnes. Woodrow, the White House
Mouse. Alexandria, Va.: Vacation Spot Publishing, 1995.
- Clinton, Susan. First Ladies. Chicago: Children's Press,
1994.
- Pascoe, Elaine. First Facts about the Presidents. Woodbridge,
Conn.: Blackbirch Press, 1996.
- Quiri, Patricia Ryon. The White House. N.Y.: Franklin Watts,
1996.
- Spies, Karen Bornemann. Our Presidency. Brookfield, Conn.:
Millbrook Press, 1994.
Top of Page | More About Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies
American Leaders Speak:
RECORDINGS FROM WORLD WAR I AND THE 1920 ELECTION, 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.
Top of Page | More About Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
The American VARIETY STAGE:
Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 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.
Top of Page | More About American Variety Stage
VOTES FOR WOMEN:
Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
- Of general interest:
- Flexner, Eleanor and Ellen Fitzpatrick. Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.
- Graham, Sara Hunter. Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
- Hays, Elinor Rice. Those Extraordinary Blackwells: The Story of a Journey to a Better World. N Y.: Harcourt Brace, & World, 1967.
- Especially for younger readers:
- Ashby, Ruth and Deborah Gore Ohrn, eds. Herstory: Women Who Changed the World. N.Y.: Viking, 1995.
- Fritz, Jean. You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? N.Y.: Putnam's, 1995.
- McCully, Emily Arnold. The Ballot Box Battle. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Top of Page | More About Votes for Women
The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of WALT WHITMAN NOTEBOOKS, 1847-1860s
- Of general interest:
- Broderick, John C. "The Greatest Whitman Collector and the
Greatest Whitman Collection," Quarterly Journal of the
Library of Congress 27 (April 1970): 109-128.
- Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life. N.Y.: Simon &
Schuster, 1980.
- Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography.
N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
- Walt Whitman: Complete Poetry and Collected Prose. N.Y.:
The Library of America, 1982.
- Especially for younger readers:
- Cox, Clinton. Mark Twain: America's Humorist, Dreamer, Prophet--A
Biography. N.Y.: Scholastic, 1995.
- Reef, Catherine. Walt Whitman. N.Y.: Clarion, 1995.
- Toynton, Evelyn. Growing Up in America: 1830 to 1860. Brookfield,
Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1995.
Top of Page | More About Walt Whitman Notebooks
WASHINGTON As It Was:
Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
- Of general interest:
- Collins, Kathleen. Washingtoniana Photographs: Collections
in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1989.
- Lewis, David L. District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History.
N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., 1976.
- Miller, Fredric M., and Howard Gillette, Jr. Washington Seen:
A Photographic History, 1875-1965. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1995.
- Scott, Pamela and Antoinette Lee. Buildings of the District
of Columbia. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Especially for younger readers:
- Brill, Marlene Targ. Building the Capital City. N.Y.: Children's
Press, 1996.
- Fradin, Dennis Brindell. From Sea to Shining Sea: Washington,
D.C. Chicago: Childen's Press, 1992.
- Reynolds, Patrick M. A Cartoon History of the District of Columbia.
Willow Street, Pa.: The Red Rose Studio, 1995.
Top of Page | More About Washington as It Was
Around the World in the 1890s:
Photographs from the WORLD'S TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, 1894-1896
- 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.
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