Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929

Of general interest:

Carnes, Mark C., Garraty, John, and Patrick Williams. Mapping America's Past: A Historical Atlas. N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, 1996.

Hebert, John R., comp. Panoramic Maps of Anglo-American Cities: A Check list of Maps in the Collections of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1974.

Panoramic Maps of Cities in the United States and Canada. 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1984.

Reps, John W. Views and View makers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Works, 1825-1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984.

Especially for younger readers:

Bacon, Josephine. The Doubleday Atlas of the United States of America. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1990.

Knowlton, Jack. Maps & Globes. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1985.

Photographs from the Chicago Daily News

Of general interest:

Adams, Rosemary K., ed. A Wild Kind of Boldness: A Chicago History Reader. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1998.

Griffin, Dick and Rob Warden, eds. Done In a Day: 100 Years of Great Writing from the Chicago Daily News. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1977.

Hecht, Ben. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Spinney, Robert G. City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000.

Swanson, Stevenson, ed. Chicago Days : 150 Defining Moments in the Life of a Great City. Chicago: Cantigny First Division Foundation, 1997.

Terkel, Studs. Chicago. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.

Especially for younger readers:

Adams, Colleen. A Weekend in the City. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2004.

Crimi, Carolyn. Kidding around Chicago. Santa Fe, N.M.: J. Muir Publications, 1998.

Turck, Mary. Chicago, Illinois. New York: Crestwood House Publishing, 1989.

Yancey, Diane. A Travel Guide to Al Capone's Chicago. San Diego: Lucent Books/Thomson Gale, 2003.

Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz

Of general interest:

Gottlieb, William P. The Golden Age of Jazz: Text and Photographs. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Reprint. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1995.

Kernfeld, Barry, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1988.

Schuller, Gunther. The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Walser, Robert. Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Especially for younger readers:

Collier, James Lin. Jazz. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.

Hacker, Carolotta. Great African-Americans in Jazz. New York: Crabtree, 1997.

Lee, Jeanne. Jam!: The Story of Jazz Music. New York: Rosen, 1999.

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra. New York: Hyperion, 1998.

Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910

Of general interest:

Catton, Bruce. Michigan: A Bicentennial History. N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 1976.

Current, Richard Nelson. Wisconsin: A Bicentennial History. N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 1977.

Lass, William E. Minnesota: A History. N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 1977.

Madison, James H., ed. Heartland: Comparative Histories of the Midwestern States. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Shortridge, James R. The Middle West: Its Meanings in American Culture. Lawrence: University of Press of Kansas, 1989.

Especially for younger readers:

Greenberg, Judith E. and Helen Carey McKeever. A Pioneer Woman's Memoir. N.Y.: Watts, 1995.

Sandler, Martin W. Pioneers: A Library of Congress Book. N.Y.: Harper Collins, 1994.

Warren, Andrea. Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie. N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, 1998.

Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present

Of general interest:

Couch, Ernie, comp. Presidential Trivia. Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996.

Dalleck, Robert. Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents. N.Y.: Hyperion, 1996.

Hyland, Pat. Presidential Libraries and Museums: An Illustrated Guide. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1995.

Klapthor, Margaret Brown. The First Ladies. 8th ed. Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association, 1995.

Mayo, Edith P., ed. The Smithsonian Book of First Ladies. N.Y.: Henry Holt, 1996.

McDonald, Forrest. The American Presidency: An Intellectual History. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1994.

Sayler, James, comp. Presidents of the United States: Their Written Measure. A Bibliography. Washington: Library of Congress, 1996.

Wilson, Robert A., ed. Character Above All: Ten Presidents from FDR to George Bush. N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Especially for younger readers:

Barnes, Peter W. and Cheryl Barnes. Woodrow, the White House Mouse. Alexandria, Va.: Vacation Spot Publishing, 1995.

Clinton, Susan. First Ladies. Chicago: Children's Press, 1994.

Pascoe, Elaine. First Facts about the Presidents. Woodbridge, Conn.: Blackbirch Press, 1996.

Quiri, Patricia Ryon. The White House. N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1996.

Spies, Karen Bornemann. Our Presidency. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1994.

Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

Of general interest:

Bustard, Bruce I. A New Deal for the Arts. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1997.

DeNoon, Christopher. Posters of the WPA, 1935-1943. Los Angeles, CA: The Wheatley Press, 1987.

McKinzie, Richard D. The New Deal for Artists. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1973.

O'Connor, Francis V. Art for the Millions: Essays from the 1930s by Artists and Administrators of the WPA Federal Arts Project. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1973.

Especially for younger readers:

Barnicoat, John. Posters: A Concise History. N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1985.

Henry, Sandi. Kids' Arts Works! Creating With Color, Design, Texture & More. Charlotte, Vermont: Williamson, 1999.

Janson, H.W. History of Art for Young People. N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912

Of general interest:

Creigh, Dorothy Weyer. Nebraska: A Bicentennial History. N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., 1977.

Frazier, Ian. Great Plains. N.Y.: Ferrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.

Madison, James H., ed. Heartland: Comparative Histories of the Midwestern States. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Rhodes, Richard. The Inland Ground: An Evocation of the American Middle West. N.Y.:Atheneum, 1970.

Especially for younger readers:

Beaty, Sandy. Champion of Arbor Day: J. Sterling Morton. Kansas City, Missouri: Acorn Press, 1998.

McNair, Sylvia. Nebraska. N.Y.: Childrens Press, 1999.

Ormsby, Alison. The Prairie. N.Y.: Benchmark Books, 1999.

Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age

Of general interest:

Acosta, Ursula. New Voices of Old: Five Centuries of Puerto Rican Cultural History. Santurce, P.R.: Permanent Press, 1987.

Cardona, Luis A. A History of the Puerto Ricans in the United States of America: the Coming of the Puerto Ricans. Rockville, Md.: Carreta Press, 1990.

Musicant, Ivan. Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century. N.Y.: Henry Holt, 1998.

Wagenheim, Kal, and Olga Jimenez de Wagenheim, eds. The Puerto Ricans: A Documentary History. Princeton, N.J.: M. Wiener Publishers, 1994.

Especially for younger readers:

Collins, Mary. The Spanish-American War. N.Y.: Children's Press, 1998.

Davis, Lucile. Puerto Rico. N.Y.: Children's Press, 2000.

George, Linda. Luis Munoz Marin: Father of Modern Puerto Rico. N.Y.: Children's Press, 1999.