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History - American Genre
Books in the History - American genre:
An American ABC (1941)
Each letter has a large illustration and a patriotic essay.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Fire-Fighters: The Story of Fire Prevention, Past and Present (1941)
An illustrated history of fire fighting.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Helen Mitchell
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
A History of the United States for Young People (1941)
An illustrated history of the United States of America for children.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Arensa Sondergaard
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
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
Poor Richard (1941)
A biography of Benjamin Franklin for young people.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Yankee Doodle’s Cousins (1941)
A compilation of stories about American folk heroes.
Author(s):
Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Abraham Lincoln (1942)
An interesting overview of Lincoln's life.
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)
A biography of the president for young readers.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Abraham Lincoln Quarterly Volume II (1943)
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Et al
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Bobo the Barrage Balloon (1943)
A story about what a barrage balloon does to protect its country.
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
The Oregon Trail (1943)
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
Maynard Dixon
The Story of the Great Plains (1943)
History and geography of the Great Plains including the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Watchwords of Liberty (1943)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Story of California (1944)
An illustrated history and geography of the State of California.
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
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 Story of the Southern Highlands (1945)
History and geography of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
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)
A regional memoir by a war correspondent about New Hampshire in the early twentieth century.
Author(s):
Ernest Poole
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams