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Books and Websites

General

Stein on Writing and How to Grow aNovel by Sol Stein

The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing(a Writer's Digest book)

Naming the World (And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer
edited by Bret Anthony Johnston


Every Writer's Guide to Copyright and
Publishing Law
by Ellen M. Kozak


Writer's Guide to Places
by Don Prues & Jack Heffron

20,001 Names for Baby
by Carol McD. Wallace



Everyday Life

  1. Everyday Life in Early America
  2. Everyday Life in Ancient Rome
  3. The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876
  4. Victorian America: Transformation in Everyday Life
  5. Everyday Life in the 1800's
  6. Everyday Life in the Wild West
  7. The American West
  8. Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800's
  9. Writer's guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition Through World War II
  10. The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840
Time-Life Books: This Fabulous Century

Vol. 1: 1900-1920
Vol. 2:  1910-1920
Vol. 3:  1920-1930
Vol. 4: 1930-1940
Vol. 5: 1940-1950
Vol. 6: 1950-1960
Vol. 7: 1960-1970

American Heritage Books
  1. The American Revolution
  2. Making of the Nation, 1783-1860
  3. The Confident Years, 1965-1916
  4. 1920'a NS 1930'S
  5. The Middle Ages
  6. Pre-Columbian People of North America
  7. The Female Experience
  8. America's Immigrant Women
  9. America's Frontier History
  10. Zion in America" The Jewish Experience from Colonial Times to the Present
  11. The Oriental American
  12. The Italian American
  13. The Dutch in America
  14. South Slavic Immigration in America
  15. The Culture of the 20's

Wartime

1. America in the 40's
  1. America in the 40s(Reader's Digest book)
  2. Civil War and Reconstruction (American Heritage)
Speech and Language
  1. I Hear America Talking
  2. Slang Down the Ages (for those in the UK)
Cookbooks
  1. Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (Victorian era)
  2. American Cookery (Amelia Simmons, 1796)
  3. The American Century Cookbook
  4. Food in History (Reay Tannahill)

Firsts

Websites

Wikipedia List of Firsts
Firsts by American Women
Famous NFL Firsts
Military Women Firsts
Presidential Inaugural Facts and Firsts
Celebrating Black History: Black Firsts
Firsts in Medicine (Wikipedia)


Books

  1. History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History by Samuel Noah Kramer available in paperback at Amazon.com

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  2. The Guiness Book of World Records
20,001 Names for Baby by Carol McD.Wallace

 

 

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