Recommended St. Louis History Books

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Suggested Books, listed by title. (enter title into search box to find lowest price):
 

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General:

Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980

Seeking St. Louis: Voices from a River City, 1670-2000

St. Louis Lost: Uncovering the Citys Architectural Treasures

Where We Live: A Guide to St. Louis Communities

The Streets of St. Louis

Final Resting Place : The Lives and Deaths of Famous St. Louisans

A Postcard Journey Back To Old St. Louis and The 1904 World's Fair

 

Neighborhoods, Images of America Series:

University City, Missouri

St. Louis Garden District

St. Louis Union Station

Central West End, St. Louis

Historic North St. Louis

Florissant

The Ville: St. Louis

Benton Park West

 

Baseball St. Louis:

St. Louis' Big League Ballparks

Baseball in St. Louis : 1900-1925

As Good As It Got: The 1944 St. Louis Browns

 

Indians/Colonial/Early:

When the Mississippi Ran Backwards : Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes

Time of the French in the Heart of North America, 1673-1818

The War That Made America : A Short History of the French and Indian War

Jefferson and the Indians : The Tragic Fate of the First Americans

Sheheke: Mandan Indian Diplomat--The Story of White Coyote, Thomas Jefferson, and Lewis and Clark

 

For Children:

Under Three Flags: Exploring Early St. Louis History

Meet Me in St. Louis : A Trip to the 1904 World's Fair

 

Civil War:

Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border

Civil War St. Louis

The Civil War in St. Louis: A Guided Tour

Inside War : The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War

Germans for a Free Missouri: Translations from the St. Louis Radical Press, 1857-1862

George Caleb Bingham: Missouri's Famed Painter And Forgotten Politician (Missouri Heritage Readers)

Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West

 

Post Civil War:

Rails Across the Mississippi: A History of the St. Louis Bridge

 

Twentieth Century:

St. Louis, 1875-1940 (Postcard History Series)

City of flight: The history of aviation in St. Louis

Streets and Streetcars of St. Louis: A Sentimental Journey

The Enemy Among Us: POWs in Missouri During World War II

So, Where'd You Go to High School? Vol. 1: Affton to Yeshiva: 200 years of St. Louis Area High Schools

 

Women:

Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History (Missouri Heritage Readers Series)

In Her Place: A Guide to St. Louis Women's History

 

Special Interest:

Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites
St. Louis: Disappearing Black Communities (Images of America Series)

African Americans in Downtown St. Louis  (Images of America Series)

Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community

The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis

The St. Louis Irish: An Unmatched Celtic Community

The St. Louis German Catholics

German Settlement in Missouri: New Land, Old Ways (Missouri Heritage Readers Series)

The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, And Regular Folk

St. Louis Casa Loma Ballroom (Images of America Series)

Irish St. Louis (Images of America Series)

 

Illinois:

Frontier Illinois (History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier)

Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis

Cahokia: City of the Sun : Prehistoric Urban Center in the American Bottom

French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times

Kaskaskia Under the French Regime (Shawnee Classics)

The Conquest of the Illinois (Shawnee Classics)

George Rogers Clark and the War in the West

Belleville, 1814-1914 (Images of America: Illinois)

Made in USA: East St. Louis (history up till early 1900's)

 

 

Fictional Titles:

 A St. Louis Saga, by Bernadette Bay O'Shaughnessy (an award winning time-travel romance)

Guerrilla Season  by Pat Hughes (Missouri during the Civil War, as close to historical accuracy as any fiction can come. Although written for juveniles, I enjoyed this book immensely )

 

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