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History - American Genre
Books in the History - American genre:
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
Christopher Columbus (1965)
A brief life of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea who discovered America in 1492.
Author(s):
Mary Irene Cathcart Borer
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Education by Uncles (1966)
Author(s):
Abigail Adams Homans
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Photographs
Read About the Postman (1966)
A history of the post office and the people who make it work.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Read About the Fireman (1967)
This is a history of fire fighting brought up to today.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Rainbow Book of American History (1968)
A popular history of the United States from the Vikings to the space age.
Author(s):
Earl Schenck Miers
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Erie Canal (1970)
I’ve got an old mule and her name is Sal,
Fifteen miles on the Eirie canal.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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