CREATIVE HISTORY : RESOURCES : SUGGESTED READING

SUGGESTED READING

Following is a list of publications in a variety of categories I found useful and interesting. They range from schlolarly publications to more casually produced compilations. Many were used in the production of this sight, some gave me inspiration, and others provided me with some good food for thought.

For detailed footnotes and bilbliography go to Downloads.

Architecture and House Histories
Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

Green, Betsy J. Discovering the History of Your House and Neighborhood. Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press, 2002.

Howe, Barbara J., Dolores A. Fleming, Emory L. Kemp, and Ruth Ann Overbeck. Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1997.

Hubka, Thomas C. Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England, 2d ed. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2004

Tyler, Norman. Historic Preservation: An Introduction to its History, Principles, and Practice. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Upton, Dell and John Michael Vlach, ed. Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Boulder and Colorado History
Aldrich, John K. Ghosts of Boulder County: A Guide to the Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Boulder County, Colorado. Lakewood, CO: by the author, 1990.

Anderson, Marti M. The Mining Camps: Salina and Summerville. Boulder, CO: by the author, 2005.

Cobb, Harrison S. Prospecting Our Past: Gold, Silver and Tungsten Mills of Boulder County. Longmont, CO: The Book Lode, 1999.

Crossen, Forest. The Switzerland Trail of America. Boulder, CO: Pruett Press, 1962.

Dallas, Sandra. Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

Ellis, Anne. The Life of an Ordinary Woman. 1929. Reprint, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.

Frink, Maruice. The Boulder Story: Historical Portrait of a Colorado Town. Boulder, CO: Pruett Press, 1965.

Leonard, Stephen J. and Thomas J. Noel. Denver: Mining Camp to Metropolis. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1990.

Noel, Thomas J. The City and the Saloon: Denver, 1858-1916, 2d ed. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1996.

Noel, Thomas J., Paul F. Mahoney and Richard E. Stevens. Historical Atlas of Colorado. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

Repplier, F. O. As a Town Grows. Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1959.

Schooland, J.B. Boulder Then and Now. Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1967.

Secrest, Clark. Hell’s Belles: Denver’s Brides of the Multitudes. Aurora, CO: Hindsight Historical Publications, 1996.

Smith, Phyllis. A Look at Boulder From Settlement to City. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company, 1981.

West, Elliott. The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

Genealogy
Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo. A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors. Cincinnati, OH: Betterway Books 1998.

––––––. Organizing Your Family History Search. Cincinnati, OH: Betterway Books 1999.

Colletta, John P. They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor’s Arrival Record. 2d ed. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993.

Eichholz, Alice, ed. Ancestry’s Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, Inc. 1992.

Murray, Suzanne, ed. American Genealogy: A Basic Course. 4th ed. Arlington, VA: National Genealogical Society, 1996.

Material Culture / Primary Sources
Ames, Kenneth L. Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.

Deetz, James. In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life. New York: Doubleday, 1977.

Green, Harvey and Mary-Ellen Perry. The Light of the Home: An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2003.

Grow, Lawrence, comp. The Old House Catalogue. New York: Main Street Press, 1976.

Forty, Adrian. Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2000.

Keister, Douglas. Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2004.

Larkin, Jack. The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840. New York: Harper and Row, 1988

Ludwig, Allan I. Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650-1815. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966.

Mace, O. Henry. Collector’s Guide to Early Photographs. 2d ed. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1999.

Petroski, Henry. The Evolution of Useful Things. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1992. Reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1994

Sperry, Kip. Reading Early American Handwriting. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1998.

St. George, Robert Blair, ed. Material Life in America 1600-1860. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.

––––––. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.

Veccia, Susan H. Uncovering Our History: Teaching with Primary Sources. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004.

Public History / Local History / Historical Methodology
Davidson, James West and Mark Hamilton Lytle. After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Lowenthal, David. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Kammen, Carol. On Doing Local History, 2d ed. Walnut Creek, CA: Altimira Press, 2003.

Kyvig, David E. and Myron A. Marty. Nearby History, Exploring the Past Around You. 2d ed. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2000.

Levy, Barbara Abramoff, Sandra Mackenzie Lloyd, and Susan Porter Schreiber. Great Tours! Thematic Tours and Guide Training for Historic Sites. Walnut Creek CA: Altamira Press, 2001.

Linenthal, Edward T. and Tom Engelhardt. History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996.

Shackel, Paul A. Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2003.

Wallace, Mike. Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

Weitzman, David. My Backyard History Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975.

West, Patricia. Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America’s House Museums. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.