Note from Dr. Joiner - Some of these books, like the places they describe are history-that means "out of print" and available only in used book stores or from libraries. A good resource is www.abebooks.com.
No. 75 Joseph Bailey 03/04/08
Hero of the Red River: The Life and Times of Joseph Bailey, Michael J. Goc
No. 74 Sabine Strip 02/26/08
No Man’s Land: A History of El Camino Real, Louis Raphael Nardini
No. 73 David Dixon Porter 02/19/08
Naval History of the Civil War, Porter
Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, Porter
No. 72 Dirt 02/12/08
Southern Culture : An Introduction, John Jacob Beck, Aaron J. Randall, Wendy Jean Frandsen, Wendy Frandsen, Aaron Randall
Rebuke of History : The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought, Paul V. Murphy
No. 71 Haller Nutt 02/05/08
Classic Natchez, Randolph Delehanty
No. 70 Hot Springs - 1st Park 01/29/08
The Fordyce Bathhouse, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, Carola Petravage
No. 69 Colfax Riot 01/22/08
Uncivil War : Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction, James Keith Hogue
No. 68 Industrial Revolution 01/15/08
The Industrial Revolution, Jeff Horn
Industrial Revolution, James L. Outman, James L. Outman, Elisabeth M. Outman, Matthew May
No. 67 Battle of New Orleans 01/08/08
Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans, Winston Groom
Battle of New Orleans : Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory, Robert Vincent Remini
No. 66 What Year Is It--Really? 01/01/08
Timelines of World History, John B. Teeple
No. 65 Christmas Truce 12/25/07
Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, Stanley Weintraub
Christmas Truce: The Western Front December 1914, Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton
No. 64 Lotteries & Louisiana 12/18/07
Refer to any comprehensive Louisiana history book. I am not familiar with any book devoted to this topic.
No. 63 Dr. John Sibley 12/11/07
Jefferson and the Southwest, Dan Flores
No. 62 Pandemic 12/04/07
The Great Influenza, John Barry
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It, Gina Kolata
No. 61 Winter Quarters 11/27/07
Vicksburg Is the Key, Terry Winschell
No. 60 Saunders Museum 11/20/07
www.berryville.com
www.ozarkconnections.com
No. 59 Money 11/13/07
www.usmint.gov
A History of Money: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, Glyn Davies
Money: A History, Catherine Eagleton, Jonathan Williams, Joe Cribb, Elizabeth Errington
No. 58 Slavery 11/06/07
Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America, Gary B. Nash
Slavery in the Ancient Near East: A Comparative Study of Slavery in Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, and Palestine, from the Middle of th eThird Millennium to the End of the First Millennium, Isaac Mendelsohn
No. 57 Fraternal Orders 10/30/07
Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America, Mark C. Carnes
Freemasonry in American Culture 1880-1930, Lynn Dumenil.
From Mutual aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967, David Beito
No. 56 Dust Bowl 10/23/07
The Dust Bowl, Men, Dirt and Depression, Paul Bonnifield
American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California, James Gregory
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, Timothy Egan
The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck
No. 55 Panic & Depression 10/16/07
The Great Crash 1929, John Kenneth Galbraith
The Great Depression: America in the 1930s , T. H. Watkins
No. 54 Cemetery Iconography 10/09/07
Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography
Douglas Keister
No. 53 Benjamin Grierson 10/02/07
Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin Grierson and His Family
William H. Leckie, Shirley Anne Leckie, Shirley A. Leckie
No. 52 Pig Trails 09/18/07
Louisiana Off the Beaten Path Gay N. Martin, Carolyn Kolb
Only in Louisiana: A Guide for the Adventurous Traveler Keith Odom
Texas Off the Beaten Path June Naylor
Arkansas Off the Beaten Path Patti DeLano
No. 51 Huey Long and Education 09/11/07
Huey Long T. Harry Williams
No. 50 Eugene Woodruff 09/04/07
Historic Shreveport-Bossier: An Illustrated History of Shreveport and Bossier City
Gary D. Joiner, Marguerite R. Plummer
Great Red River Raft Peter Zachary Cohen, Ann Fay (Editor)
No. 49 Autographs 08/28/07
Corresponding with History: The Art and Benefits of Collecting Autographs
John E. Schlimm,II
No. 48 - Fourth Fighter Group 08/21/07
1000 Destroyed Grover C. Hall
No. 47 - Walter O Crain 08/14/07
Shiloh & the Western Campaign of 1862 O. Edward Cunningham
No. 46 - Lost Generation 08/07/07
The First World WarJohn Keegan
No. 45 - Roman Soldiers 07/31/07
Republican Roman Army 200–104 BC Nicholas Sekunda
The Roman Army from Caesar to Trajan Michael Simkins
No. 44 - Terrorists 07/24/07
Inside Terrorism Bruce Hoffman
Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind
Water Reich (Editor)
No. 43 - Islands in the Red 07/17/07
Master of the Mississippi: Henry Shreve and the Conquest of the Mississippi
Florence L. Dorsey
Iberville's Gulf Journals
Pierre Iberville (Author), Richebourg McWilliams (Editor)
No. 42 - St. Denis 07/10/07
Iberville's Gulf Journals
Pierre Iberville (Author), Richebourg McWilliams (Editor)
No. 41 - Sacred Soil 07/03/07 independence day
The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War Michael Shaara
Course of the South to Secession U.B. Phillips
No. 40 - Ft. Jesup 06/26/07
Encyclopedia of Forts, Posts, Named Camps, and other Military Installations in Louisiana, 1700-1981
Powell A. Casey
No. 39 - Indians 06/19/07
The People: Indians of the American Southwest
Stephen Trimble
No. 38 - Scots & the South 06/12/07
Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South
Grady McWhiney
No. 37 - D-Day 06/05/07 d-day anniversary
The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day
Cornelius Ryan
D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
Stephen Ambrose
No. 36 - Flight and Fight 05/29/07
Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I Herbert A. Johnson
Aviation Century World War II (Aviation Century) Ron Dick, Ramsay Potts, Don Lopez, and Dan Patterson
No. 35 - Revenge Balkans Style 05/22/07
A History of the Arab Peoples: Second Edition Albert Hourani and Malis Ruthven
The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism Dennis P. Hupchick
No. 34 - Generals as President 05/15/07
Ulysses S. Grant: [The American Presidents Series] (The American Presidents) Arthur M. Schlesinger and Josiah Bunting
Eisenhower Stephen E. Ambrose
No. 33 - Yellow Jack 05/08/07
Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana 1796-1905 Carrigan
Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets John R. Pierce and James V. Writer
No. 32 - Missiles of October 05/01/07
The Week The World Stood Still: Inside The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) Sheldon M. Stern
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis Robert F. Kennedy and Arthur Schlesinger
No. 31 - Texas Cavalry 04/24/07
Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke: The First Texas Cavalry in the Civil War, Texas A&M University Military History Series Stanley S. McGowen
Campaigning with Parsons' Texas Cavalry Brigade, CSA: The War Journals and Letters of the Four Orr Brothers, 12th Texas Cavalry Regiment John Q. Anderson
Between the Enemy and Texas: Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War Anne J. Bailey
No. 30 - U-Boats 04/17/07
Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II Michael Gannon
Torpedoes in the Gulf: Galveston and the U-Boats 1942-1943 (Military History Series; No 40) Melanie Wiggins
No. 29 - Ruston P.O.W. 04/10/07
Fish Out of Water: Nazi Submariners as Prisoners in North Louisiana During World War II Wesley L. Harris
U-505: The Final Journey by James E. Wise Jr.
Hunt and Kill: U-505 and the U-boat War in the Atlantic by Theodore P. Savas
No. 28 - Mansfield 04/03/07
One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End Gary D. Joiner
Through the Howling Wilderness Gary D. Joiner
No. 27 - Poverty Point Indians 03/27/07
The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present Fred B. Kniffen, Hiram F. Gregory, and George A. Stokes
Caddo Indians: Where We Come from Cecile Elkins Carter
No. 26 - Prices 03/20/07
www.westegg.com/inflation
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History, David H. Fischer
No. 25 - Etruscans 03/13/07
Etruscans: Beloved of the Gods Morgan Llywelyn and Michael Scott
Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History Sybille Haynes
No. 24 - Plessy 03/06/07
We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson Keith Weldon Medley
Plessy v. Ferguson Brook Thomas
No. 23 - Poison Spring
Steele's Retreat From Camden, Edwin C. Bearss
The Earth Reeled and the Trees Trembled -- Civil War Arkansas, 1863-1864, Mark Christ, editor
All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell, Mark Christ
No. 22 - The Lone Star
The Original Lone Star Republic: Scoundrels, Statesmen and Schemers of the 1810 West Florida Rebellion, David A. Bice
Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1810–1899. Baton Rouge, Hyde, Samuel C., Jr.
No. 21 - Immigrants
Louisiana: A History, Bennett H. Wall
Carnivals and Conflicts, Samuel Hyde
Numerous books are available on specific types of immigrants; check with your library to identify books about immigrants that interest you most.
No. 20 - Burr's Ferry
Burr, Gore Vidal
Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason, Buckner F. Melton
http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/la/Vernon/state.html
No. 19 - C.C. Antoine
Men of Mark, William J. Simmons, 1887
Black New Orleans 1860-1880," John W. Blassingame, 1973
Our People and Our History,translated and edited by Sr. Dorothea Olga McCants, 1973, based on Rodolphe Lucien Desdune 's "Nos Hommes et Notre Hostoire," 1911
No. 18 - Camp Ford
Camp Ford, C.S.A.: The Story of Union Prisoners in Texas, F. Lee Lawrence and Robert W. Glover
Tyler, Texas, CSA, William A. Albaugh III
No. 17 - Political Parties
Why Parties?: The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America, John Aldrich
Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections (Facts on File Library of American History) Larry Sabato and Howard Ernst
No. 16 - Spies in Louisiana
Spies in the Civil War, Albert Nofi, Victor Brooks
Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War, Donald E. Markle
Petticoat Spies:Six Women Spies of the U.S. Civil War, Peggy Caravantes
No. 15 - Civil War Uniforms
Uniforms of the Civil War: An Illustrated Guide for Historians, Collectors, and Reenactors, Ron Field, Robin Smith
American Civil War Confederate Army: Brassey's History of Uniforms, Ron Field, Tim Newark (editor), Richard Hook (illustrator)
Don Troiani's Regiments and Uniforms of the Civil War, Don Troiani, Earl J. Coates
Don Troiani's Civil War Cavalry and Artillery, Don Troiani, Michael J. McAfee
No. 14 - Cotton the Miracle Fiber
Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber, Stephen Yafa
The Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color, Mills, Gary B.
Web site: www.caneriverheritage.org
No. 13- Why Study the Civil War?
20 Good Reasons to Study the Civil War John C. Waugh
Confederates in the Attic Tony Horwitz
No. 12 Cemeteries
Stories in Stone: A field guide to Cemeteries, Symbolism and Iconography Douglas Keister
No. 11 History Matters . . . History for Sale
Antiques Roadshow Collectibles: The Complete Guide to Collecting 20th Century Glassware, Costume Jewelry, Memorabila, Toys and More from the Most-WATCHED Show on PBS
Carol Prisant
No. 10 History Matters . . . Jefferson
History of Navigation on Cypress Bayou and the Lakes Jacques D. Bagur
Jefferson: East Texas Metropolis Fred Tarpley
No. 9 History Matters . . .Landscapes
Mystic Chords of Memory: Civil War Battlefields and Historic Sites Recaptured
David J. Eicher, John Y. Simon (Foreword by)
No. 8 History Matters . . .Geologic History
Roadside Geology of Louisiana Darwin R. Spearing
Roadside Geology of Texas Darwin R. Spearing, Spearing
No. 7 History Matters . . . Ghost Towns
(see No. 6)
No. 6 History Matters . . . Roads
Louisiana Off the Beaten Path Gay N. Martin, Carolyn Kolb
Only in Louisiana: A Guide for the Adventurous Traveler Keith Odom
Texas Off the Beaten Path June Naylor
Arkansas Off the Beaten Path Patti DeLano
No 5. History Matters . . . Steamboats
The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs: Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920
Joan W. Gandy (Editor), Thomas H. Gandy (Editor)
Red River Steamboats Eric Brock, Gary Joiner
No. 4 History Matters . . . Aleutians in World War II
The Thousand-Mile War : World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians Brian Garfield
Forgotten Warriors of the Aleutian Campaign Jim Reardon
No. 3 History Matters . . . Middle East
History of the Arab Peoples Albert Hourani
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts Neil Asher Silberman, Neil Asher Silberman, Neil Asher Silberman
No. 2 History Matters . . . Great Man Theory
The French Revolution: A History (3 vol.) Thomas Carlyle
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle
On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle and the Burden of History John Rosenburg
No. 1 History Matters
Book - The Story of Civilization Will and Ariel Durant
CD -- The Lessons of History, Will Durant, Ariel Durant, Grover Gardner (Narrated by)
