Special Presentation: Work | School | Leisure
Aron, Cindy S. Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Braden, Donna R. Leisure and Entertainment in America. Dearborn, Mich.: Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, 1988.
Butsch, Richard, ed. For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
Grover, Kathryn, ed. Hard at Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
Nasaw, David. Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. New York: BasicBooks, 1993.
Swanson, Richard A., and Betty Spears. History of Sport and Physical Education in the United States. Madison, Wisc.: WCB Brown & Benchmark, 1995.
(Top)American Social History Project. Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society. Vol. 2: From the Gilded Age to the Present. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
Amott, Teresa, and Julie Matthaei. Race, Gender, and Work: A Multi-Cultural Economic History of Women in the United States. Boston: South End Press, 1996.
Claypool, Jane. The Worker in America. New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. [juvenile literature]
Cullinan, Gerald. The United States Postal Service. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1968.
Davis, Madison. A History of the Washington City Post-Office from 1795 to 1903. Lancaster, Pa.: New Era Printing Company, 1903.
Diner, Steven J. A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.
Dubofsky, Melvyn. Industrialism and the American Worker, 1865-1920. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1996.
Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
(Top)Bullough, William A. Cities and Schools in the Gilded Age: The Evolution of an Urban Institution. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1974.
Church, Robert L. Education in the United States: An Interpretive History. New York: The Free Press, 1976.
DeJong, David H. Promises of the Past: A History of Indian Education in the United States. Golden, Colo.: North American Press, 1993.
Diner, Steven J. A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.
Nasaw, David. Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Swanson, Richard A., and Betty Spears. History of Sport and Physical Education in the United States. Madison, Wisc.: WCB Brown & Benchmark, 1995.
(Top)American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. Picture Catalogue. New York: n.p., 1902.
Horwitz, Rita, and Harriet Harrison, preparers. The George Kleine Collection of Early Motion Pictures in the Library of Congress: A Catalog. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1980.
Loughney, Patrick G. "A Descriptive Analysis of The Library of Congress Paper Print Collection and Related Copyright Materials." Ph.D. diss., The George Washington University, 1988.
Musser, Charles. Edison Motion Pictures, 1890-1900: An Annotated Filmography. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1997.
Musser, Charles, ed. Motion Picture Catalogs by American Producers and Distributors 1894-1908, a Microfilm Edition. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1984.
Niver, Kemp R., comp. Biograph Bulletins, 1896-1908. Los Angeles: Locare Research Group, 1971.
Niver, Kemp R. Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1985.
Related American Memory Web Sites:
(Top)The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works, 1904
The Last Days of a President: McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition
Inventing Entertainment: Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies