History - American Genre
Books in the History - American genre:
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
An American ABC (1941)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Matchlock Gun (1941)
During the French and Indian War in upper New York state, Edward is determined to protect his home. He is only ten years old but his father gave him an ancient, heavy Spanish gun before leaving home to fight the enemy.
Author(s):
Walter D. Edmonds
Illustrator(s):
Paul Valentine Lantz
Yankee Doodle’s Cousins (1941)
Author(s):
Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Abraham Lincoln (1942)
Author(s):
Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Tree in the Trail (1942)
The story of a cottonwood tree leads to the history of the Santa Fe Trail.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Abraham Lincoln (1943)
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Bobo the Barrage Balloon (1943)
Author(s):
Margaret McConnell
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Man of the People (1943)
This is a serial concerning Abraham Lincoln published in a periodical called The Classmate, volume 50, numbers 6 to 11. The pictured issue is from 1934.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Watchwords of Liberty (1943)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Daniel Boone (1945)
A brief biography of the American backwoodsman and explorer who opened up the west. In this edition, the text has been considerably enlarged.
Author(s):
Esther Averill
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Golden Hoof (1945)
Author(s):
Winifred Kupper
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Let Our People Live (1945)
A pamphlet addressing the working conditions of the poor post-WWII, the cost of living and underpaid workers. Includes illustrations depicting impoverished families and children.
Author(s):
Joseph Gaer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Russia & America Old Friends - New Neighbors (1945)
Author(s):
Delia Goetz
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
America’s Paul Revere (1946)
A vivid history of one of America’s best-loved patriots.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Esther Forbes
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Great White Hills of New Hampshire (1946)
Author(s):
Ernest Poole
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
America’s Stamps (1947)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Cortez the Conqueror (1947)
In 1519 Hernan Cortez landed at Vera Cruz on the coast of Mexico and proceeded to put an end to the murderous cannibal kingdom of the Aztecs.
Author(s):
Covelle Newcomb
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Mary Montgomery, Rebel (1948)
Author(s):
Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Seabird (1948)
The Seabird follows the history of American seafaring.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (1950)
Author(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Illustrator(s):
William Sharp
Real People Benjamin Franklin (1950)
Author(s):
Frances Fullerton
Winthrop Neilson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
A Bird in the Hand: Sayings From Poor Richard’s Almanac (1951)
Author(s):
Benjamin Franklin
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Picture Book of Wisconsin (1951)
Author(s):
Bernadine Bailey
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Children Through the Ages (1953)
Author(s):
Gertrude Hume
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Story of the Presidents of the United States (1953)
Short biographies of the American presidents from Washington to Eisenhower.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Buckboard Stranger (1954)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Paul Calle
A Beast Called an Elephant (1955)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Rainbow Book of American History (1955)
A popular history of the United States from the Vikings to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Author(s):
Earl Schenck Miers
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Cartier Sails the St. Lawrence (1956)
Author(s):
Esther Averill
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
My Antarctic Honeymoon (1956)
This is the narrative of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition. It took place from 1947-48.
Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Jennie Darlington
Jane McIlvaine
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Silver Mace (1956)
A brief history of the colonial capitol of Virginia up to the time of the revolution.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Stories of Early America (1958)
Stories and poems about early American history for younger children.
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What Cabrillo Found (1958)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Paul Galdone
Best in Children’s Books Volume 18 (1959)
The Alaska Gold Rush (1960)
Adventure and biography of the Klondike gold rush in the late 1890's, which, though it failed to bring many prospectors the riches and ease they craved, benefited the world in general by opening up the Canadian North to exploration
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night (1961)
The fox stole two of the farmer’s geese to feed his family.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Burl Ives
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Author! Author! (1962)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Man o’ War (1962)
A fictionalized biography of America’s greatest race horse.
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Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Angie Draper
The History of San Diego: The Glory Years (1964)
The story of Southern California's exciting days from 1865-1900.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
Richard F. Pourade
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
A Blow for Liberty (1965)
Sixteen-year-old Jed Starbuck of Nantucket joins the crew of “The True Patriot” to fight the British at sea during the Revolutionary War.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Victor Mays
Education by Uncles (1966)
Author(s):
Abigail Adams Homans
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Photographs
Read About the Postman (1966)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Read About the Fireman (1967)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Rainbow Book of American History (1968)
Author(s):
Earl Schenck Miers
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Erie Canal (1970)
Author(s):
Thomas S. Allen
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Star-Spangled Banner (1973)
Author(s):
Francis Scott Key
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Puritan Experiment (1977)
A history of Puritanism in America.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Francis J. Bremer
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Legend of New Amsterdam (1979)
A pictorial history of the early days of New Amsterdam, or as we now know it, New York.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Mill (1983)
Author(s):
David Macaulay
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay
Superpower (1987)
The story of the building of #1070, prototype locomotive of the Berkshire class 2-8-4 by the Lima Locomotive Works.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
We The People (1987)
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Children’s Book of America (1998)
Short essays on American history, biographies, poems and folk tales.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
More Stories from the Round Barn (2002)
The second volume in the history of the Dougan family farm in Beloit, Wisconsin.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
A Blow for Liberty (2006)
Sixteen-year-old Jed Starbuck of Nantucket joins the crew of “The True Patriot” to fight the British at sea during the Revolutionary War.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Victor Mays
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