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History - American Genre
Books in the History - American genre:
It Depends on How You Look at It (1933)
This illustration appeared on the cover of a newspaper magazine, possibly This Week, in 1933 as Prohibition was being repealed.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Book of Indians (1935)
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Drums of Monmouth (1935)
This is a biography of Philip Freneau, known as the poet of the revolution. He was a friend of Madison and Jefferson and edited an anti-federalist newspaper.
Author(s):
Emma Gelders Sterne
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Book of Cowboys (1936)
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Francis Scott Key (1936)
This brief biography tells of the life of Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star Spangled Banner.
Author(s):
Helen Dixon Bates
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Listening (1936)
Gail and Grroo come to visit Uncle George and his family and learn the history of their colonial house.
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Nelly Custis Daughter of Mount Vernon (1937)
Nelly Custis was the granddaughter of Martha Washington by her first husband. She was adopted by George and Martha at the age of four and grew up at Mount Vernon.
Author(s):
Rose Mortimer Ellzey MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Over the Blue Wall (1937)
A history of the lands west of the Appalachians to the Mississippi, from Ponce de Leon to Jefferson.
Author(s):
Etta Lane Matthews
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Voyages of Jacques Cartier (1937)
A French explorer discovers Canada.
Author(s):
Esther Averill
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
David (1938)
The story of David from the fight with Goliath to King of Israel.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Log of Christopher Columbus’ First Voyage to America in the Year 1492 (1938)
An adaptation of Columbus’ description of his first voyage to America.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Bartolomé de las Casas
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
All the Days Were Antonia’s (1939)
Author(s):
Florence Stebbins Gleeson
Gretchen McKown
Illustrator(s):
Zhenya Gay
Ben and Me (1939)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Boy Emigrants (1939)
Two young men head west by Conestoga to find a better life. This edition bound in black cloth with a paste on cover is more typical of the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics.
Author(s):
Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Harvey Thomas Dunn
Golden Tales of the Southwest (1939)
A collection of short stories by southwestern authors or about the southwestern United States.
Author(s):
O. Henry
Helen Hunt Jackson
Stewart Edward White
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Homes in the Wilderness (1939)
Author(s):
William Bradford
Margaret Wise Brown
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Mary Wilson Stewart
Horses and Americans (1939)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Frederic Remington
Kurt Wiese
Little Buffalo Boy (1939)
A story about the plains Indians.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Ramona (1939)
Ramona is a mixed-race woman of Native American and Scotch ancestry. The novel tells of her travails during the settlement of California after the Mexican American War.
Author(s):
Helen Hunt Jackson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Almanac for Americans (1941)
For each day of the year the important, and not so important, events of American history are given. Several updated editions were published.
Author(s):
Willis Thornton
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty