Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War

Of general interest:

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

Hamm, Charles. Popular Song in America. New York: W.W. Norton Co., 1979.

Peterson, Merrill. Lincoln in American Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Especially for younger readers:

Freedman, Russell. Lincoln: A Photobiography. New York: Clarion, 1987.

Robertson, James I., Jr. Civil War! America Becomes a Nation. An Illustrated History for Young People. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Seeger, Ruth Crawford. American Folk Songs for Children in Home, School, and Nursery School; A Book for Children. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1948.

Small Town America, 1850-1920

Of general interest:

Federal Writers' Project of New Jersey. Stories of New Jersey: Its Significant Places, People, and Activities. New York: M. Barrows and Company, 1938.

Lingeman, Richard R. Small Town America: A Narrative History, 1620 to the Present. New York: Putnam, 1980.

Monkkonen, Eric H. America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Sutherland, Daniel E. The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

Especially for younger readers:

Coster, Patience. Towns and Cities. New York: Children's Press, 1998.

Roop, Peter. A Farming Town. Des Plaines, Illinois: Heinemann Library, 1999.

Roop, Peter. A Town. Des Plaines, Illinois: Heinemann Library, 1999.

Royston, Angela. Where People Live. Austin, Texas: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1998.

The South Texas Border, 1900-1920

Of general interest:

Alonzo, Armando C. Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Frantz, Joe B. Texas: A History. N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., 1976.

Henderson, Kitty A. A Shared Experience: the History, Architecture, and Historic Designations of the Lower Rio Grande Heritage Corridor. Austin: Los Caminos de Rio Heritage Project and the Texas Historical Commission, 1994.

Maril, Robert Lee. Living on the Edge of America: At Home on the Texas-Mexico Border. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1992.

Samponaro, Frank N., and Paul J. Underwood. War Scare on the Rio Grande: Robert Runyon's Photographs of the Border Conflict, 1913-1916. Austin: Texas State Historical Society, 1992.

Especially for younger readers:

Bredeson, Carmen. Texas. N.Y.: Benchmark Books, 1997.

Gonzalez, Genero. Rainbow's End. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1988.

Heinrichs, Ann. Texas. N.Y.: Children's Press, 1999.

McComb, David G. Texas: An Illustrated History. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Southern Mosaic, 1939

Of general interest:

Lomax, John A. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter. New York: Macmillan Co., 1947.

Lomax, John A., and Alan Lomax. American Ballads and Folk Songs. New York: Macmillan Co., 1935.

Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country. New York: Macmillan Co., 1941.

Porterfield, Nolan. Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, 1867-1948. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Especially for younger readers:

The Diane Goode Book of American Folk Tales and Songs. New York: Puffin, 1996.

Emberley, Barbara. Gonna Sing My Head Off: American Folk Songs for Children. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Schwartz, Alvin. And the Green Grass Grew All Around: Folk Poetry From Everyone. New York: Harper Trophy, 1992.

Tate, Eleanora E. Don't Split the Pole: Tales of Down-Home Folk Wisdom. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1999.

Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures

Of general interest:

Freidel, Frank. The Splendid Little War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1958.

Linderman, Gerald F. The Mirror of War: American Society and the Spanish- American War. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1974.

Musicant, Ivan. Empire By Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century. N.Y.: Henry Holt, 1998.

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.

The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919

Of general interest:

Coffman, Edward M. The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Cornebise, Alfred E. The Stars and Stripes: Doughboy Journalism in World War I. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Eisenhower, John S.D., and Joanne Thompson Eisenhower. Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I. New York: Free Press, 2001.

Hallas, James H., ed. Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.

Keene, Jennifer D. Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Trask, David F. The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917-1918. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1993.

Especially for younger readers:

Adams, Simon. World War I. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2001.

Clare, John D., ed. First World War. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.

Dolan, Edward F. America in World War I. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1996.

Kent, Zachary. World War I: The War to End Wars. Hillside, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1994.

Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

Of general interest:

Boylan, Anne M. Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Lynn, Robert W. The Big Little School: Two Hundred Years of the Sunday School. Birmingham, Ala.: Religious Education Press, 1980.

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

Rice, Edwin Wilbur. The Sunday School Movement 1780-1917, and the American Sunday-School Union 1817-1917. New York, Arno Press, 1971 [1917].

Especially for younger readers:

Fisher, Leonard Everett. The Schools. New York: Holiday House, 1983.

Graves, Kerry A. Going to School During the Civil War: The Confederacy. Minn.: Blue Earth Books, 2002.

Graves, Kerry A. Going to School During the Civil War: The Union. Mankato, Minn.: Blue Earth Books, 2002.

Sateren, Shelley Swanson. Going to School in Colonial America. Mankato, Minn. : Blue Earth Books, 2002.

Toynton, Evelyn. Growing up in America, 1830-1860. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1995.