The History Teachers Reference List
suggested for research, background materials & stories .Poetry about American History
A Book of Americans by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet illustrated by Child
An excellent collection of poetry about leaders in American History.
Uses humor and history along with wood cut type illustrations.Cooking with History
Slumps, Grunts, Snickerdoodles
Cooking up U.S. History: Recipes & Research by Barchers & Marden
The Williamsburg CookbookHumor and Amusing Anecdotes of History
I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode or Not by Shenkman
Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of World History by Shenkman
Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History by Shenkman
One Night Stands in American History by Shenkman
Not So by BoellerHomework Helpers
Everything You Need to Know About American History HomeworkPresidents
Presidential Campaigns by Boeller
Presidential Wives An Anecdotal History by Boeller
Presidential Anecdotes by Boeller
The Last Cow on the White House Lawn and Other Little
known Facts about the Presidency by SeulingGeneral American History Reference
Instant European History by Libbon
Instant American Literature by Rozakis
Instant American History by Unger
Don’t Know Much About History by Davis
American History: The New York Public Library Book of Answers
Eyewitness to History edited by John Carey
Don't Know Much about Geography by Davis
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Holt
American History Before 1877 with
Questions and Answers by Billington(outlines)
American History in 100 Nutshells by Tuleja
Murder & Spies, Lovers & Lies by Marc Mappen
The Wars of America by Leckie
The Almanac of American History by A. M. Schlesinger Jr.
Dictionary of American History by Martin & Gelber
Dictionary of British History by Kenyon
The Readers Companion to American History by Foner & Garraty
Teacher Resource Book: Fascinating Facts from American History
by Lawrence (J. Weston Walch)Series Set: These are great to read to students about history.
A History of U.S. by Joy Hakim
Book 1: The First Americans
Book 2: Making Thirteen Colonies
Book 3: From Colonies to country
Book 4: The Nation
Book 5: Liberty for All
Book 6: War, Terrible War
Book 7: Reconstruction and Reform
Book 8: An Age of Extremes
Book 9: War, Peace, and All that Jazz
Book 10: All the PeopleEnglish History
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England edited by Antonia Frasier
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
The Virgin Queen Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age by Hibbert
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
The Children of Henry VIII by Weir
The Princes in the Tower by Weir
The Wars of the Roses by WeirExploration
The Great Explorers The European Discovery of America by Samuel Elliot Morrison
The Log of Christopher Columbus by Fuson
Around the World in a Hundred Years From Henry the Navigator
to Magellan by Jean Fritz
I Columbus, My Journal edited by Roop
If you were there in 1492 by Brenner
Explorers who got lost by Diane Sansevere Dreher
Newsweek: Fall/Winter 1991 Columbus Special Issue
The Truth About Columbus A Subversively True Poster Book for a Dubiously
Celebratory Occasion by Professor James W. Loewen
Westward with Columbus by Dyson
Where do you think You’re Going Christopher Columbus? by Jean Fritz
The Guinness Book of Records 1492 The World Five Hundred Years Ago/Facts on File
Columbus and the Age of Discovery by Zvi Dor-Ner
Columbus for Gold, God and Glory by Dyson
Primary Source Exhibits: First American Encounters:
Columbus & The Age of Explorers
Everything You Need to Know about Latino HistoryIndians
The World of the Southern Indians by Bown & Owens
Brown Paper School US Kids History: Book of the American Indians
The World Heritage: The Mayan Civilization Childrens Press Chicago
North American Indians (Make it work: The Hands on Approach to History)
Haslam & Parsons
Aztec Inca & Maya (Eyewitness Books)
The Native Americans: The League of the Iroquois by Morgan
The Algonquins by Patricia Ryon Quiri
Indians of North America:
The Iroquois by Barbara Graymont
The Cherokee by Perdue
The Choctaw by McKee
The Seminole by Garbarino
The Aztecs by Berdan
North American Indian Sign Language by Liptak
A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma by Wright
Native American Prophecies Examining the History,
Wisdom and Startling Predictions of Visionary Native Americans by Peterson
Captured by the Indians 15 firsthand accounts 1750-1870
Everyday Life on the North American Indian by White
The American Heritage Book of Indians by Brandon
Indians in Seventeenth Century Virginia by McCary (Jamestown Booklet #3)
The Indian How Book by Parker (Authentic Information on
American Indian Crafts, Customs, Food and Clothing, Religion and Recreations
The Native American History Quiz Book by Malone
Black History
Narrative of Sojourner Truth edited by Martha Washington
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali & Songhay by McKissack & McKissack
Many Thousand Gone African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
Everybody say Freedom Everything You Need to know About African
American History by Newman & Sawyer
Escape from Slavery The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his Own Words
edited by McCurdy
Narratives of Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman Slavery and the Underground Railroad by Megan McClard
Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons
If you traveled on the Underground Railroad by Levine
The Underground Railroad Dramatic Firsthand Accounts of Daring Escapes to
Freedom by Blockson
The Kidnapped Prince The life of Olaudah Equiano adapted by Ann Cameron
The People Could Fly American Black Folk tales by Hamilton
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Winter
Take a Walk in their Shoes by Turner
(Biographies of 14 outstanding African Americans)
Bullwhip Days The Slaves Remember An Oral History edited by James Mellon
Black Heroes of the American Revolution by Davis
Kids Explore America’s African American Heritage/
Westridge Young Writers Workshop
One More River To Cross: The Stories of 12 Black Americans by HaskinsWomen
Remember the Ladies The First Women’s Rights Convention by Johnston
American Women Their Lives in their Words by Doreen Rappaport
Founding Mothers Women of America in the Revolutionary War
by DePauw
Abigail Adams by Boer
The Day Women Got the Vote A Photo History of the Women’s Rights
Movement by SullivanEarly colonial period
The Mayflower Murderer and Other Forgotten Firsts in American History
by Stevens
Margaret Pumphereyís Pilgrim Stories by Elvajean Hall
Historic communities series by Kalman
A Colonial Town
Colonial Crafts
Home Crafts
The Gristmill
Tools & Gadgets
18th Century Clothing
19th Century Clothing
Visiting a Village
Colonial Life
The Kitchen
If you sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
Puritianism: Opposing Viewpoints
Inquiries into American History/ Our Colonial Heritage: Plymouth and
Jamestown by White/Glencoe Publishing
Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners by Lucille Recht Penner
Homes in the Wilderness A Pilgrim’s Journal of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 by
William Bradford and Others of the Mayflower Company edited
by Margaret Wise Brown
A Williamsburg Household by Richmond
The Pilgrims of Plimoth Plantation by Sewall
Sarah Morton’s Day A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl by Kate Waters
Samuel Eaton’s Day A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy by Waters
Tapenumís Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times
by Waters
Ships Apprentice by Waters
Stranded at Plimoth Plantation 1626 by Gary Bowen
Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke
The Way to Wealth by Ben Franklin
Old Time Punishments by William Andrews
Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century by Edmund S. Morgan
Jamestown 1544-1699 by Carol Bridenbaugh
Roanoke Island The Beginnings of English America by David Stick
Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
A Documentary History 1600-1900 Early American Women by Nancy Woloch
Colonial America A History, 1607-1760 by Richard Middleton
If you Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern
The First Frontier: Life in Colonial America by Miller
Journal & Letters of Phillip Fithian
Colonial American Travel Narratives
The Virginia Adventure by Ivor Noel Hume
American Slavery American Freedom The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by MorganPuritans/Salem Witchcraft
The Puritan Dilemma The Story of John Winthrop by Edmund Morgan
I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde
Cotton Mather on Witch Craft
The Witches of Salem by Nevins
The American Puritans Their Prose and Poetry edited by Miller
The Puritan Family Religion & Domestic Relations in
Seventeenth-Century New England
Wayward Puritans A Study in the Sociology of Deviance by Erikson
Salem Possessed The Social Origins of Witchcraft by Paul Boyer & S. Nissenbaum
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch trials by StarkeyCrafts and Trade of Colonial America
Early Nineteenth-Century Crafts and Trades edited by Peter Stockham
Old Time Crafts and Trades edited by Peter Stockham
The Girl’s Own Book by Mrs. L. Maria Child
Eric Sloane’s America
ABC Book of Early Americana by Eric Sloane
Colonial Williamsburg Booklets and publications on various crafts
Colonial Crafts by Edwin Tunis
Edwin Tunis also has great books on the different colonial crafts
Revolutionary war
The Lees of Virginia by Nagel
Great Stories of the American Revolution by Garrison
Rebels & Redcoats The American Revolution through the Eyes of Those
Who Fought & Lived It by George F. Scheer & Hugh Rankin
Rebels & Redcoats: The American Revolution through British Eyes by Hibbert
The Minutemen and their World by Gross
America’s Paul Revere by Esther Forbes
Who’s that Stepping on Plymouth Rock? by Jean Fritz
The American Girls Collection: Felicity books
Going to School in 1776 by Loeper
Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution by Langguth
Watchwords of Liberty A pageant of American Quotations by Lawson
If you were there in 1776 by Brenner
Brown paper School US Kids History: Book of the American Colonies
Washington: The Indispensable Man by Flexner
Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship
A true story of the miseries endured by American prisoners of war during
the American Revolution by Albert Green
Baron von Steubenís Revolutionary War Drill Manual
Stan Mackís Real Life American Revolution (cartoon)
The Loyalists by Moore
The Lexington-Concord Battle Road Hour by hour account of events
(Concord Chamber of Commerce)
The Colonial Wars 1689-1762 by Peckham
The Journal of Major George Washington (Colonial Williamsburg)
Paul Revere’s Ride by Fischer
The American Heritage Book of the Revolution by Lancaster, Plumb
Secret History of the American Revolution
(A behind the scenes chronicle of conspiracies of Arnold & others)
Peoples Bicentennial Commission Early American Almanac
Decisive Battles of the American Revolution by Lt. Col. Joseph B. Mitchell
Decision in Philadelphia by Collier & Collier
George Washington’s War by Lecke
Washington’s Rules of Civility
Paul Revere and the World he Lived he by Esther Forbes
The American Revolution Opposing Viewpoints
U. S. Kids Brown Paper Bag Book of the American Revolution
Miracle at Philadelphia by Bowen
George Mason Reluctant Statesman by Rutland
America at 1750 A Social Portrait by Richard Hofstadter
Black Heroes of the American Revolution by Davis
And then What Happened Paul Revere by Fritz
Sh! We’re Writing a Constitution by Fritz
Will you sign here John Hancock? by FritzDover Books (Color books great for bulletin boards or overhead transparencies)
Uniforms of the American Revolution Coloring Book by Copeland
Everyday Dress of the American Revolution
Bellerophon Books (Color books with biographies)
Heroines of the American Revolution
Heroes of the American Revolution
Ships of the American RevolutionThe War of 1812
Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication by Curtis
Andrew Jackson and the Bank War by ReminiIndustrial Period
Children at Work by Russell FreedmanThe West
The Great American Gold Rush by Blumberg
The West by Davis & Rosa
The Way West Journal of a Pioneer Woman by Knight
Gateway to Empire by Allan Eckert (Tecumseh)
Tales of the Frontier From Lewis and Clark to the Last Roundup by Dick
America’s Early Canals by McNeese
The Alamo by Tinkle
Alamo Defenders A Genealogy: A People and their words by Groneman
The Prairie Traveler by Marcy
If you traveled west in a Covered wagon by Levine
A Frontier Fort on the Oregon Trail by Steedman & Bergin
Daily life in a Covered Wagon by Paul Erickson
Buffalo Hunt by Freedman
An Indian Winter by Freedman
My Prairie Year Based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted by Harvey
Off the Map The Journals of Lewis & Clark edited by Roop
Children of the Wild West by Freedman
The Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark by Blumberg
Covered Wagon Women Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1840-1849
edited by Holmes
Teacher Resource Book “Life as a Pioneer”
My Folks came in a Covered Wagon/ Capper Press
My Folks and the One-Room School House
My Folks Claimed the PlainsOklahoma History Related
With Badges & Bullets Lawmen and Outlaws in the Old West by Eulain & Riley
LaSalle and the Discovery of the Great West by Parkman
The Great West A Treasury of Firsthand Accounts by Neider
The Real West: the 101 Ranch and Creation of the American West by Wallis
Beyond the Frontier by Hoig
Daily Life in a Plains Indian Village by Terry
Eyewitness to the American West by Colbert
Tales of the Tepee by Dale
Footsteps thru Tulsa by Inhoffe
1921 Tulsa Race Riot by HowerThe Civil War & Reconstruction
Don’t Know Much About the Civil War by Davis
Going to School in 1876
The Peculiar Institution Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South by Stamp
A Treasury of Civil War Tales by Garrison
Bull Run by Fleischman
The Slave Community Plantation Life in the Antebellum South by Blassinggame
John Ransom’s Andersonville Diary
Decisive Battles of the Civil War by Mitchell
The Life of Billy Yank by Wiley
The Life of Johnny Reb by Wiley
My Folks and the Civil War
Spies Women in the Civil War by Colman
Battles of the Civil War by William C. Davis
The Soldiers of the Civil War by William C. Davis
Weapons of the Civil Wary by William C. Davis
They Shot the President by Sullivan
Medical Practices in the Civil War by Beller
Blue and Grey Cookery Authentic recipes from the Civil War Years by Gowan
Patriots in Disguise Women Warriors of the Civil War by Hall
Sarah Morgan The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman edited by Charles East
The Long Road to Gettysburg by Murphy
A Separate Battle Women and the Civil War by Ina Chang
The Union Reader by Harwell
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by McKissack
If you Grew up with Abraham Lincoln by Ann McGovern
If you Lived at the Time of the Civil War by Moore
The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Bishop
The American Heritage Short History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton
Reflections on the Civil War by Bruce Catton
The Civil War Trivia Quiz Book by Terdoslavich
The Brothers’ War Civil War Letters to their Loved ones
from the Blue and Gray by Tapert
Southern Stuff Down-home talk and bodacious lore from
deep in the heart of Dixie by Brooks
Daughters of the Cause Women of the Civil War
Andersonville phamplet
Strange and Fascinating Facts by Burke Davis
Eastern Acorn Press (Jamestown gift shop)
Robert E. Lee
First Manassas
Battle of Chancellorsville
Appomattox
Gettysburg
U.S. Grant
There are many more.Echoes of Glory Army and Equipment of the Confederacy Time Life Books
The Day Fort Sumter was Fired on: A Photo History of the Civil War by Haskins
Civil War! America Becomes One Nation by Robertson
The Boys’ War Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War by Murphy
Behind the Blue and Gray: The Soldier’s Life in the Civil War by Ray
For Home and Country A Civil War Scrapbook by Bolotin, Herb
Robert E. Lee and the Rise of the South by Dubowski
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